'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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Appreciate your sex—or else: The Supreme Court’s strange new commandment
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.
July 16, 2025
Cynthia Nixon calls out 'sanitization and corporatization' of Pride at Advocate event
"I think we don't need these people coming in and trying to steal our glitter and our glory and our spotlight," Nixon said.
June 3, 2025
Trump's pardoning of insurrectionists will turbocharge trans violence
Trump and his allies are pushing a radical agenda that threatens our democracy, targeting trans communities while fueling violence and oppression, writes Imara Jones.
February 4, 2025
Trump signs executive order targeting transgender students, their teachers, and their schools
The new executive order looks to end so-called radical indoctrination in schools and includes topics related to race, privilege, and oppression.
January 29, 2025
J.K. Rowling falsely claims 'there are no trans kids'
The children's book author and anti-trans activist has increasingly denied the existence of transgender people.
December 30, 2024
Maui prep school considers policies that effectively ban transgender students
The proposed guidelines would restrict pronoun usage, restroom access, and uniform choice.
December 19, 2024
REPLAY: The Advocate hosts virtual roundtable with trans youth and author Nico Lang
The discussion was streamed live on Advocate.com on October 23 at 6:00 p.m. ET.
October 15, 2024
Read Susan Stryker's foreword to Nico Lang's book on trans youth, American Teenager (exclusive)
"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.
October 8, 2024
Families ask appellate court to overturn Florida's youth trans care ban
“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.
October 3, 2024
White House clarifies support for gender-affirming care for transgender youth after backlash (exclusive)
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.
July 8, 2024
Texas doctor charged for leaking health records of transgender kids to far-right extremist
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.
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June 19, 2024
A second Trump term would double down on erasing transgender rights. Here’s how advocates are preparing.
“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.
June 16, 2024
Colorado Republicans tell parents to take kids out of school over fears they ‘turn more kids trans’
The state GOP sent out a bigoted email filled with misinformation.
May 23, 2024
In the Mississippi Bible Belt, a Family Wrestles with Raising Trans Kids in the Mormon Church
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.
November 5, 2023
Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers Vows to Veto Anti-Trans Legislation
Lawmakers are considering bills to ban gender-affirming care for youth and bar trans girls and women from female school sports teams.
October 7, 2023
Florida Subpoenas Medical Associations Over Trans Youth Care
It comes as the state's GOP-controlled legislature has passed a number of anti-LGBTQ+ bills this session.
April 25, 2023
Karine Jean-Pierre to LGBTQ+ Community: ‘President Has Their Back’
The White House press secretary asked Americans to consider what it’s like to be a trans or queer kid in the country today.
March 14, 2023
Utah GOP Senator Explains Why He Supports Trans Kids & Adults
The state lawmaker says Republicans worry that accepting transgender people will lead to an outbreak of new trans people nationwide.
March 4, 2023