In Puerto Rico, the age of majority, or legal adulthood, is 21, making its ban on care for minors one of the most restrictive of any U.S. state or territory. (Most U.S. laws ban care up to 18 years old. Laws in Alabama and Nebraska ban care up to 19 years old) thehill.com/homenews/lgb...

"Trans people are going to die, and they don’t care. Humor helps us look at it. ...We don’t have to look away if we can laugh at it.” With LGBTQ+ rights in peril, trans and queer comedians' stars are rising. They're making us laugh in bleak times & reimagining how comedy can be a tool for change

ICYMI: This morning, Hegseth confirmed the Navy is renaming the ship named for Harvey Milk, a Navy lieutenant, gay rights activist and the first gay person elected to public office in California before he was killed. "People want to be proud of the ship they're sailing in." x.com/SecDef/statu...

The authors of the titles at the center of this case told me back in April that their books are incredibly personal — some of them are about their own children or based on their own childhood experiences. These aren't just storybooks, they're the stories of real people. thehill.com/homenews/lgb...

HUGE NEWS: The Senate Parliamentarian has struck the ban on Medicaid dollars for gender-affirming care trans people from the One Big Beautiful Bill! www.budget.senate.gov/ranking-memb...

“Liberation Weekend was a celebration, but it was no party at the end of the world—it was the repeated insistence of a people under attack that the world they’ve created cannot and will not end.” Thank you @pitchfork.com for spreading the word of @liberationwknd.bsky.social. Here’s to next year?

More than 100 celebrities across the entertainment industry are calling on President Trump’s administration to protect an LGBTQ youth crisis service’s funding amid broader spending cuts. thehill.com/homenews/lgb...

The Education Department is declaring June 'Title IX Month' in an obvious hit at Pride. Says it will highlight actions throughout the month "taken to reverse" the Biden admin's "legacy of undermining Title IX," which it says bars trans girls from girls' sports/spaces. www.ed.gov/about/news/p...

NEW: These families say they're leaving the U.S. because of its anti-transgender climate For @nbcnews.com: www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-...

Hello! I'm working on a story about the Trump administration's trans military ban and would like to hear how service members are preparing for/navigating the new policy. If that sounds like you, I'd love to hear from you! Reach me here or on Signal at bmigdon.84

Hello! I'm working on a story about the Trump administration's trans military ban and would like to hear how service members are preparing for/navigating the new policy. If that sounds like you, I'd love to hear from you! Reach me here or on Signal at bmigdon.84

Another Dem/potential 2028 candidate signals an openness to limiting trans girls' participation in sports, but says decisions should be left to school boards/athletic associations. "There are some sports that some of these trans children should not be playing." thedispatch.com/article/rube...

Via Axios: Democrats are trying to use the Byrd rule to strike some parts of the reconciliation bill. Chief among them: -The ban on care for transgender people in Medicaid and CHIP -the moratorium on AI regulation -REINS Act -Permitting reform -immigration fees www.axios.com/2025/05/28/t...

'Heightened Scrutiny' details the high-stakes Supreme Court case over trans health care I spoke to the film's director @samfeder.bsky.social and producer Amy Scholder, for @nbcnews.com: www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-...

Per her MileSplit stats, the athlete Trump is talking about never competed on any hs team other than the girls', so his claim that she was "less than average" pre-transition is based on nothing. She's ranked 3rd in the triple jump in California (& 13th nationally), so she's not "unbeatable" either.

On Truth Social this am, Trump orders local California authorities to block a transgender high school athlete from competing in the state finals and threatens to revoke the state's federal funding, "maybe permanently." Says he's speaking w/ Newsom today.

Republicans in Utah commissioned an investigation into gender-affirming care for trans youth after banning it in 2023. They're now rejecting the findings of that investigation which showed access to care reduced suicides and improved "positive mental health and psychosocial functioning outcomes."

Something to note: Some health policy experts and lawmakers I spoke with said the measure's funding restrictions for trans health care may violate the Senate’s “Byrd rule” preventing reconciliation measures from being used to pass “extraneous” legislation. 1/2

House Republicans’ “big, beautiful bill” would prohibit Medicaid and CHIP funding for gender-affirming care and remove "gender transition procedures" as essential health benefits under the Affordable Care Act. Here's what that means + what a path forward may look like: thehill.com/homenews/lgb...

The Trump admin has been trying to prohibit ACA coverage of gender-affirming care for awhile. Check out my story here for more info If this goes through, insurers could drop coverage for trans people entirely or trans patients could see higher out-of-pocket costs; along with marketplace cuts

If you think this provision could impact your access to care and want to talk about it, feel free to contact me here or on Signal @ bmigdon.84

New: Not only would Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” ban gender-affirming care via Medicaid, it would ban insurance under the Obamacare exchanges from covering it as an essential health benefit www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

Related: a new @williamsinstitute.bsky.social report out this morning shows LGBT adults are more than twice as likely to rely on Medicaid as their primary source of health insurance. williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/publications...

This would upend care for potentially hundreds of thousands of trans people nationwide. An estimated 276,000 trans adults were enrolled in Medicaid in 2022, according to the Williams Institute. williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/publications...

House Republicans' managers amendment to the reconciliation bill is out It now explicitly prohibits Medicaid from covering gender-affirming health care for transgender people *overall* The reconciliation bill initially only targeted people under 18 amendments-rules.house.gov/amendments/R...

Update: Staffers for several Dems listed here told me they did not have meetings scheduled with WoLF (see replies). But WoLF says they actually *did* have meetings on the books. They say Dems were intimidated into canceling them. womensliberationfront.org/news/democra...

Per one Democratic aide, members reached out for a meeting to talk about "women's rights, violence against women, revenge porn and AI deepfake porn on the internet, and mentioned specifically that they had constituents of ours that would want to talk to our team about these issues ..."

Update: Staffers for several Dems listed here told me they did not have meetings scheduled with WoLF (see replies). But WoLF says they actually *did* have meetings on the books. They say Dems were intimidated into canceling them. womensliberationfront.org/news/democra...

The Defense Department will begin screening troops for gender dysphoria during routine and periodic medical check-ups as it looks to remove transgender people from serving, according to a new memo: media.defense.gov/2025/May/15/...

Another update: WoLF will not be meeting with Raskin or his staff, his office says.

Some House Republicans are looking to make Trump's executive order to bar transgender troops from serving openly in the military permanent, introducing legislation this week to codify the administration's policy into law. thehill.com/homenews/lgb...

From Schiff's office: "Senator Schiff is not and was never scheduled to meet with this organization. Any suggestion otherwise is false, nor will any member of our team be meeting with the group."

From a Duckworth spox: "We have nothing scheduled with this group, and are not aware of any request to meet with anyone associated with them either."

Fetterman's office says a request from WoLF to meet with the senator next week was denied. His office also declined to meet with members of the group on the staff level.

In response to Trump's executive orders, RAINN, the nation's largest anti-sexual-violence organization, has barred its crisis hotline staff from sharing resources specific to LGBTQ people, immigrants and other marginalized groups.

The state House is scheduled to vote on a proposal Thursday to repeal Texas' ban on homosexual conduct, which has been unenforceable since the U.S. Supreme Court found the law to be unconstitutional in 2003.

Ross's office also says the email is misleading -- "Congresswoman Ross never had a meeting scheduled with them."

Update: Kamlager-Dove also does not have a meeting scheduled with this group.

Update here: Raskin's office says the email is misleading. WoLF was told they may be able to meet with some of his staff, but not Raskin himself.

Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen’s (R) office tells me it will appeal this decision, calling it an “outrageous rejection of common sense.” Says the courts “ignored the will of Montanans,” and the state didn’t get a fair trial.

Earlier today, I was leaked a copy of the Executive Secretariat Style Guide for the US State Department. The new guide included a new section requiring that all trans State employees must be misgendered in all official communications. www.patreon.com/posts/new-st...

Inbox: The Women’s Liberation Front, an organization that denies the existence of transgender people, says it plans to meet with several members of Congress next week, including more than a dozen Democrats.

New: 100+ House Dems are calling on HHS to leave funding for a crisis service for LGBTQ youth intact, saying eliminating the program would have “lethal consequences.” Comes after 7 Senate Dems and two House Republicans sent similar letters to HHS/RFK Jr. this month. thehill.com/homenews/lgb...

Lambda Legal and the Human Rights Campaign Foundation, groups representing the transgender service members challenging Trump’s ban, are calling today’s ruling a “devastating blow”

🚨The Supreme Court will allow President Trump to begin enforcing a ban on transgender troops in the military, undermining two lower court decisions & handing a victory to an administration that has broadly sought to restrict trans rights. w/ @byellalee.bsky.social thehill.com/regulation/c...

ICYMI: Democrats this morning reintroduced the Equality Act, reviving a yearslong effort to make sexual orientation and gender identity protected classes as the Trump administration rolls back diversity/inclusion efforts and transgender rights. thehill.com/homenews/lgb...

New: The Education Department said UPenn violated Title IX by allowing transgender women to compete on its women's sports teams. The department pointed to Lia Thomas, who graduated in 2022, as an example of the school's noncompliance. thehill.com/homenews/527...

New: AG Pam Bondi announced a civil lawsuit against Maine for "willfully" violating Title IX, the federal civil rights law against sex discrimination that the White House has said prohibits trans students from participating in girls’ and women's sports. thehill.com/homenews/lgb...

Just now: The Education Department said it is referring its Title IX investigation into Maine schools to the Justice Department. Maine's state education department had until Friday to agree to ban trans athletes from girls' sports. thehill.com/homenews/lgb...

News: USDA is freezing federal funds for some Maine education programs over the state’s refusal to ban trans student-athletes from girls’ and women’s sports as directed by President Trump. thehill.com/homenews/adm...