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National Park Service removes pages for transgender activists Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera

NPS removed the pages shortly after scrubbing transgender people from other government websites.

As the first out trans person in Congress, Sarah McBride is ready to fight for us

The history-making congresswoman is fiercely focused on the real issues affecting most Americans — and is not deterred by ongoing far-right rhetoric.

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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.

Sarah McBride and the way we win

"As the first and only out transgender member of Congress, Sarah will be putting herself on the line every day in a way that’s never been done before," writes HRC's Jay Brown.

Backlash to transgender health care isn’t new − but faulty science used to justify it has changed over time

As in the 1930s, opposition to trans medicine today is part of a broad reactionary movement against what some far-right groups consider the “toxic normalization” of LGBTQ people.