Medicare, Medicaid agency demands info on gender-affirming care for trans youth
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services falsely claims such care is not evidence-based.
May 30, 2025
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Rachel Levine led fights against HIV & STIs at HHS. Now Trump’s undoing that progress, and she’s speaking out
The former assistant secretary for health is breaking her silence on the damage Trump's HHS is doing.
May 13, 2025
Trump’s tariff on foreign films is his revenge on Hollywood, a Red Scare redux, and an autocratic power move
Opinion: A wanna-be authoritarian leader like Trump cannot tolerate dissident artists, which inevitably means he can’t tolerate his citizens either, writes John Casey.
May 6, 2025
In a week, RFK Jr. fat-shames the West Virginia governor, fires 10k HHS workers, and enrages Wall Street
Opinion: Kennedy has come under fire from Congress, Wall Street, and scores of health care professionals, all warning about his incompetence, writes John Casey.
April 4, 2025
Trump is coming for your poppers: Major producer closes amid FDA crackdown
Several other companies seem to have followed suit.
March 14, 2025
Republicans strip Louisiana's only LGBTQ+ elected official of leadership role
Davante Lewis tells The Advocate about his removal as vice chairman on Louisiana's Public Service Commission, which he believes was racially and politically motivated.
February 20, 2025
Black gay official could lose leadership role after criticizing Louisiana governor's anti-LGBTQ+ post
Davante Lewis talks to The Advocate ahead of a vote to remove him from his vice chairman role on Louisiana's Public Service Commission — all for defending former HHS official Dr. Rachel Levine.
February 18, 2025
Donald Trump's anti-LGBTQ+ cabinet: An in-depth look
Trump's 2.0 cabinet is a cast of characters from right-wing television and MAGA politics. Here are their LGBTQ+ rights records.
May 26, 2025
In a real-life 'War of the Worlds,' the alien OAN will take over a civilized Voice of America
Opinion: Trump’s autocratic propaganda machine Is about to swallow America’s global voice and scare the daylights out of the world, writes John Casey.
May 10, 2025
100 days and 100 of the most hilarious, horrific, and heinous things done by the Trump administration
Opinion: A painstaking look at 100 of the top blunders, mishaps, and mistakes of Trump, his loyalists, and his minions, from John Casey.
April 30, 2025
Trump quietly purges presidential HIV advisory council, sparking public health fears (exclusive)
“We have all the tools to end HIV. It just makes me sad to see a lot of this infrastructure being systematically dismantled across the country," one advisor told The Advocate.
April 11, 2025
Five years after COVID began, Biden's health adviser warns of the new dangers to public health
One of the world’s top health experts used to sleep with one eye open. Now, he says he’s been sleeping with all three eyes open.
March 10, 2025
Trump’s health department launches ‘vile’ anti-trans website featuring right-wing influencer (exclusive)
Trump and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. “are starting their tenure at HHS by attacking trans people, harming their access to health, and promoting unscientific rhetoric about sex as a so-called immutable characteristic,” former HHS official Adrian Shanker told The Advocate.
February 19, 2025
Why LGBTQ+ groups are angry at RFK Jr.'s confirmation
Kennedy has denied that he ever said chemicals cause gender dysphoria or that HIV doesn't cause AIDS — but he did.
February 14, 2025
Trump’s three stooges of U.S. health care: a skeptic, a quack, and a huckster
Opinion: These three aren’t a joke. They’re a warning, and if they exert their power, the consequences of their actions could be fatal, writes John Casey.
May 14, 2025
House Democrats demand RFK Jr. stop Trump’s deadly plan to end LGBTQ+ suicide prevention services
Lawmakers say the move to eliminate 988’s LGBTQ+ youth line is “shortsighted and dangerous” and “will have lethal consequences.”
May 13, 2025
Democratic senators denounce plan to cut LGBTQ+ suicide and crisis hotline
“While we strongly disagree with the many actions taken by the Trump Administration targeting LGBTQ+ individuals, we believe that suicide prevention should be a nonpartisan issue," the Democratic senators wrote.
May 7, 2025
The legacy and programs of FDR, who died 80 years ago today, are at risk of being dismantled
“The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much, it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little," FDR famously said.
April 12, 2025
Trump orders NIH to study gender transition ‘regret.’ Here's what we already know about it
Trump wants to study transgender people's "regret," but people are more likely to regret having children than gender-affirming surgery.
April 7, 2025
RFK Jr. to shut down HHS Office of Infectious Diseases & HIV Policy
These closures are part of a plan to cut 20,000 positions at HHS.
March 28, 2025
Mitch McConnell will leave Senate with egregiously anti-LGBTQ+ record
The Republican, who announced Thursday that he will not run for reelection in 2026, has a record of opposition to LGBTQ+ equality.
February 20, 2025