'Jeopardy!'s Ken Jennings won't support Gavin Newsom for president due to trans kids stance
"Any candidate cynically 'triangulating' on trans kids is a non-starter, and now is the time to say so," Jennings says.
July 18, 2025
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"Any candidate cynically 'triangulating' on trans kids is a non-starter, and now is the time to say so," Jennings says.
In a stunning Supreme Court ruling, Tennessee's law mandating minors embrace their birth sex has ignited fierce debate over bodily autonomy, revealing a troubling intersection of religious zealotry and state power in the fight for individual rights across America.
"I think we don't need these people coming in and trying to steal our glitter and our glory and our spotlight," Nixon said.
Trump and his allies are pushing a radical agenda that threatens our democracy, targeting trans communities while fueling violence and oppression, writes Imara Jones.
The new executive order looks to end so-called radical indoctrination in schools and includes topics related to race, privilege, and oppression.
The children's book author and anti-trans activist has increasingly denied the existence of transgender people.
The proposed guidelines would restrict pronoun usage, restroom access, and uniform choice.
The discussion was streamed live on Advocate.com on October 23 at 6:00 p.m. ET.
"Lang offers space for [trans youth] to tell their own stories while providing helpful context for the audience. The stories Lang’s subjects tell are heartbreaking, sweet, infuriating, and inspiring in equal measure," writes trans studies scholar Susan Stryker in the foreword to Nico Lang's book American Teenager.
“As a parent, it is heartbreaking to see my right to make healthcare decisions for my child taken away by political bullies, and the hurt and harm that has caused my child,” one parent of a trans youth said in a new legal brief.
The Human Rights Campaign led an effort to get the White House to clear up its previous statement opposing some treatment options for transgender Americans.
Eithan Haim allegedly stole private health records of transgender kids who weren’t his patients and gave their medical information to an anti-trans activist.
“We’ve seen over the last several years a militant effort in red states by the government to discriminate against trans folks, in particular, and the broader LGBTQ community, and even to go so far as to try to deny trans people's existence,” said Mike Zamore, national director of policy and governmental affairs at the ACLU.
The state GOP sent out a bigoted email filled with misinformation.
Amid the surge of anti-trans bills in America, this Mississippi family is still trying to raise trans kids in a faith that tends to have a strict binary view of gender.
Lawmakers are considering bills to ban gender-affirming care for youth and bar trans girls and women from female school sports teams.
It comes as the state's GOP-controlled legislature has passed a number of anti-LGBTQ+ bills this session.
The White House press secretary asked Americans to consider what it’s like to be a trans or queer kid in the country today.
The state lawmaker says Republicans worry that accepting transgender people will lead to an outbreak of new trans people nationwide.