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Kaiser Permanente
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Kaiser Permanente ends gender-affirming surgeries for patients under 19

Kaiser will stop offering the surgeries as of August 29, but said that it will still offer other gender-affirming care.

James Lantz filmmaker known online as Angry Gay Grandpa being cuffed arrested after protesting at the PA State Capitol April 2024 and footage still from webseries chapter six
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Pennsylvania fines gay grandpa with stage 4 cancer $16k for protesting trans youth suicide

James Lantz glued his hand to a railing inside the Vermont Senate after lawmakers refused to meet with him about trans youth suicides.
An L.A. queer organization's next steps after Trump cuts its funding
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An L.A. queer organization's next steps after Trump cuts its funding

Rainbow Labs says it’s lost its AmeriCorps grant, which amounts to more than 10 percent of its funding.

LGBTQIA transgender affirming students protest against Katy ISD Texas schools
Politics

Texas sued over 'Don't Say Gay' law that bans LGBTQ+ student clubs

The ACLU of Texas and SEAT are challenging a law that includes an LGBTQ+ student club ban, a forced outing policy, and a DEI ban.

Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor
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Justice Sonia Sotomayor slams gender-affirming care ruling as 'state-sanctioned discrimination'

Sotomayor said the ruling will invite "untold harm to transgender children and the parents and families who love them."

Gavin Newsom press conference January 2025
Politics

Gavin Newsom cut LGBTQ+ health funding. The CA legislature is set to restore $40 million

Newsom eliminated funds for health programs centered around LGBTQ+ youth, women, and transgender people last month.

Maura Healey speaking at a podium
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Massachusetts lesbian Gov. Maura Healey signs abortion and gender-affirming care shield law

Shield Act 2.0 further strengthens protections for patients and providers of reproductive healthcare.
United Nations building
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U.N. draft report uses pseudoscience to claim gender dysphoria is 'socially contagious'

The UN's preliminary report on sex-based violence incorrectly claims trans acceptance "erase[s] the legal category of women.”

everyone is welcome here sign at protest in Boise Idaho demanding womens rights and bodily autonomy April 2025
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Idaho Attorney General tells schools to ban 'Everyone is Welcome Here' signs

Idaho's Republican attorney general said that signs telling children "Everyone is Welcome Here" are actually "political statements."

LGBTQIA bakery owner and staff
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10% of new business owners are LGBTQ+ — and they're offering better benefits

LGBTQ+ business owners are more likely to offer their employees benefits such as health care and retirement, a new study found.
JD Vance
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JD Vance becomes the most blocked account on Bluesky after anti-trans post

JD Vance has been blocked by 11 times more Bluesky accounts than those that follow him.

worried teen checking cell phone
Politics

Trump Administration to close LGBTQ+ youth suicide hotline in 30 days

The closure is several months ahead of its initial October 1 deadline, first revealed by leaked budget draft in April.

draq queens on a float with transgender flags and ACT UP poster NYC LGBTQIA pride parade 2024
Politics

Why LGBTQ+ groups aren't fazed by Trump's 'Title IX Month' attention grab

"Pride is a protest, and it's happening whether the most-anti LGBTQ+ administration in history acknowledges it or not," an HRC spokesperson told The Advocate.

​International Transgender Day of Visibility rally in Union Square New York City 2025
Politics

21 states that have passed anti-LGBTQ+ laws in 2025 so far

Here are all the anti-LGBTQ+ laws that have been passed so far in 2025, and which states they come from.

Oregon foster mother Jessica Bates alongside judge wooden gavel on LGBTQIA progress pride rainbow flag background
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Anti-LGBTQ+ mom in Oregon wins right to potentially adopt LGBTQ+ kids

Jessica Bates said she would not let her kids dress how they want, nor take them to the doctor for gender dysphoria treatment.

James Lantz​ at Pennsylvania Capitol
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This gay grandpa was fined $16k for protesting trans youth suicides, and he would 'do it again'

James Lantz tells The Advocate about his arrest for gluing his hand to a Capitol railing while protesting trans youth suicides.

queer teen using cellphone
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These crisis hotlines are still available for LGBTQ+ youth after Trump ends special 988 services

The Trump administration is cutting the 988 special service for LGBTQ+ youth, but there are still several existing lifelines for LGBTQ+ youth in crisis. Here are some.

Sonia Sotomayor
Politics

Sonia Sotomayor: LGBTQ+ book opt outs 'threaten the very essence of public education'

"Exposing students to the 'message' that LGBTQ people exist, the majority says, is enough to trigger the most demanding form of judicial scrutiny," Sotomayor wrote.

Stanford Medicine building Palo Alto CA Lucile Packard Childrens Hospital
Health

Stanford Medicine caves to Trump Administration, ends gender-affirming surgeries for youth

Man injecting HRT outside SCOTUS; Raquel Willis and trans activist in police van
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9 trans rights activists arrested in front of Supreme Court while protesting Skrmetti ruling

Nine activists were arrested outside the Supreme Court and detained for two hours, according to organizers.