Massachusetts removes rule requiring foster parents to support LGBTQ+ youth
Massachusetts has removed state rules requiring that foster parents not discriminate against LGBTQ+ youth.
December 22, 2025
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Health policy expert to RFK Jr.: You can't ban trans youth care this way
“They are trying to do something that CMS simply isn’t empowered to do,” a former senior Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services official from the Biden administration told The Advocate.
December 18, 2025
RFK Jr. and Dr. Oz announce sweeping measures to ban gender-affirming care for trans youth
The Department of Health and Human Services announced new proposals that would effectively block gender-affirming care for trans youth across the country.
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December 18, 2025
Pete Buttigieg mocks Trump Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy’s strange airport pull-up stunt
“I love exercise. I love air travel. Putting them together is not really something I would think to do,” the former Transportation secretary said.
December 11, 2025
RFK Jr.’s health department is using religious freedom to strip transgender people of health care
“This administration is obsessed with targeting trans folks,” former HHS deputy assistant secretary for health policy Adrian Shanker told The Advocate.
December 9, 2025
AIDS activist group ACT UP changed the world. Here's why its work still matters today
The direct action group ACT UP was key to the fight against AIDS at the epidemic's height, and its legacy informs present-day activism.
December 9, 2025
Where is bi former U.S. Sen. Kyrsten Sinema now?
Not in a place that will win her friends among progressives.
November 24, 2025
What public health experts want you to know about the severe mpox strain appearing in the U.S.
Unlike the version of the virus that spread around the world in 2022, this one has had more severe outcomes.
October 30, 2025
Texas's anti-LGBTQ+ attorney general sues Tylenol company over autism claims
This lawsuit comes a month after RFK Jr.'s updated guidance discouraging pregnant women from taking acetaminophen, citing it as a possible cause of autism.
October 28, 2025
Donald Trump will not be running for a third term in 2028, and it has nothing to do with law or politics
Opinion: The bluster about a third term is more of a Trump-created distraction that seeks to promote strength in the face of the creeping inevitability of aging, writes John Casey.
October 27, 2025
22 times Donald Trump has dumped a number 2 on America
Opinion: The real sludge is not the one coming from Trump’s hideous AI plane, it’s the excrement that sits in the White House, trying to clog up democracy, writes John Casey.
October 21, 2025
Is Cheryl Hines being publicly forced to curb her enthusiasm for RFK Jr.?
Opinion: She needs to ditch her brain-wormed husband, take the money, her integrity, and a one-way flight to a country with functioning health care, writes John Casey.
October 18, 2025
Tig Notaro reveals why she’s no longer friends with Cheryl Hines
The comedian explained what really happened in a new interview.
October 16, 2025
Trump’s shutdown layoffs eliminate entire federal health agencies that served LGBTQ+ people, teens, & women
“Without these people in place, it’s unlikely that a lot of these programs will be able to continue even after the government reopens," former HHS Deputy Assistant Secretary Adrian Shanker told The Advocate.
October 11, 2025
No one likes a hothead and a jerk, especially one who is the director of the FBI
Opinion: With an offensive temperament, a pathetic demeanor, and dangerous narcissism, Kash Patel's noisy emptiness at the FBI’s helm puts America in peril, writes John Casey.
September 18, 2025
Robert 'Froggy' Kennedy Jr. ribbits lies, conspiracy theories, and gibberish, garbling our public health
Opinion: Throughout his bizarre life, and especially at Thursday's Senate Finance Committee hearing, Kennedy has proved that he is the proverbial "Toad of Toad Hall," writes John Casey.
September 6, 2025
Dr. Michael Osterholm warns of the 'next big one' amid vaccine chaos and increasing attacks on public health
“Are we going to base what we do for the health of our population on science, or are we going to go with magic smoke and mirrors?” says Dr. Osterholm
September 5, 2025
Homophobe Rand Paul says gay CDC official's 'lifestyle' made him unfit to be in government
The U.S. senator from Kentucky made the comment about Dr. Demetre Daskalakis, who resigned over the Trump administration's anti-science policies.
September 2, 2025
RFK Jr.’s damage to the CDC is ‘past the point of no return,’ Dr. Demetre Daskalakis warns
“The CDC you knew is over,” the infectious diseases doctor told The Advocate. “Unless someone takes radical action, there is nothing there that can be salvaged.”
August 29, 2025
Mike Johnson, RFK Jr. attack trans people in wake of Minneapolis school shooting
They are doing so even though the overwhelming majority of mass shooters are cisgender men.
August 29, 2025
Health officials and experts praise CDC’s Demetre Daskalakis for standing up in blistering resignation
One HHS official called him a "public health martial artist."
August 28, 2025