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The Advocate's news editor Dawn Ennis successfully transitioned from broadcast journalism to online media following another transition that made headlines; in 2013, she became the first trans staffer in any major TV network newsroom. As the first out transgender editor at The Advocate, the native New Yorker continues her 30-year media career, in which she has earned more than a dozen awards, including two Emmys. With the blessing of her three children, Dawn retains the most important job title she's ever held: Dad.
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The government wants to ban care nationwide, and hospitals are shutting down treatment. Parents just want it all to stop.

Bree Fram, a Democrat forced to retire from the Space Force under Trump's trans military ban, is running to represent northern Virginia’s D.C. suburbs.

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The Republican-led legislation places the state increasingly out of step with the rest of New England on trans rights.

“People have chosen to stay in the military because they see people like me,” First Lieutenant Brian Femminella told The Advocate.

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Rep. John McGuire’s proposed Riley Gaines Act would allow athletes to sue colleges that permit transgender women to compete in women’s sports.

The longtime California Republican congressman is packing it up.

Opinion: Proximity to (and even building) misogynistic machinery will not protect you, writes contributor Josh Ackley.