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This is huge! The Trump administration is abandoning its plan to withhold Medicaid funding from hospitals that provide gender affirming care to trans youth under 19. www.npr.org/2026/07/13/n...

BREAKING: After nearly 20,000 HRC members and supporters spoke up, Trump's HHS walked back a proposal to restrict health care for trans youth at hospitals nationwide. While too many states still ban lifesaving health care, this is a huge signal of our movement's ability to FIGHT BACK.

After losing in courts across the country, the Trump administration has successfully steered nationwide litigation over gender-affirming medical care for minors to a single Texas judge in a single Texas district court. In "One First," me on how this happened (and why it's allowed but shouldn't be):

One of the groups here is the transphobic org, Beira's Place, started and funded by JK Rowling. I wonder if she sent her lawyers after Amnesty International.

Every one of these lawsuits prove that the school was right to do so because the minute the parents found out, they ran to a far right legal org to sue to eliminate the rights of trans kids. I can't imagine what this kid is going through.

NEW: Judge considers WPATH request to block FTC from proceeding in Texas, ruling expected Friday. Judge James Boasberg heard arguments on Thursday afternoon in D.C. Today, at Law Dork:

Trans rights are human rights. To anyone in the LGBTQ+ community afraid for the future in wake of recent Supreme Court decisions—we are in this fight together, and you are not alone.

This is exactly why committing to passing the Trans Bill of Rights is a non-negotiable for my 2028 vote.

"No one is banned from competing in sports. Trans people can still compete in Male sports" Is the new "No one is banned from getting married. Gays can still marry someone of the opposite sex"

Why should you support independent trans media? Perhaps because we take on the bias of major news organizations with facts and data. Here's the latest from @evanurquhart.bsky.social, who found NYT wrote 5 stories on the trans sports ban decision without quoting a single trans person. 🤯🤯🤯

The 1st Circuit never should have blinked in the RI administrative subpoena case. They enabled this sort of behavior out of the government's attorneys.

Very thankful for this letter to Becky Pepper-Jackson (the 16 year-old trans girl SCOTUS ruled against yesterday) from James Dale, a gay man whose expulsion from the Boy Scouts was upheld by the Supreme Court in 2000.

While discussing today's SCOTUS ruling on CNN, ADF President Kristen Waggoner accuses Plaintiff Becky Pepper-Jackson of sexual harrasement and threats. This attack on Trans people was never just about sports. It's always been about criminalizing our existence.

Really not looking forward to tomorrow's SCOTUS decisions on trans rights, which are ostensibly about sports (but depending on the ruling, will affect far, far more than that, and not likely in a good way).

Don't make me tap the sign (I know I will be tapping the sign) www.statnews.com/2026/06/29/g...

Really dreading these upcoming SCOTUS decisions. I assume the anti-trans side will win. At this point, I just hope the rulings end up being narrow enough to not unravel other aspects of trans life.

1. Major news. Mayor Mamdani has just announced $15 million in direct funding for trans youth care providers, the most concrete action his administration has taken since receiving significant criticism over its handling of trans youth. Subscribe to support our journalism.

Translating Jackson for those who don't speak SCOTUS: These clowns invented a fake rule, and then, when that fake rule led to a decision they didn't like, they ignored their made-up rule to get to the outcome they wanted anyway. To all Democrats: Expand the Court or GTFO.

Chloe Cole called a few PP’s asking for detrans services. At one she spoke to a Trans manager who was rather willing to provide any referrals needed. Then there’s an abrupt cut after which he states he can’t schedule an appointment or continue the conversation. What did Chloe say during that cut?

In honor of Norwegian anti-trans pediatrician Anne Wæhre & two others being found guilty of research misconduct today, here's my profile of Wæhre, who spoke at a 2023 conference organized by anti-trans hate group Society for Evidence-Based Gender Medicine: www.transgendermap.com/issues/medic...

Thoughts on this maybe being O'Connor's call? bsky.app/profile/esqu...

Thanks to the Advocate for helping to cover my analysis of the New York Times coverage over the last 12 years. www.advocate.com/politics/nat...

A Trans woman in Kansas changed her license to M because of the gender marker ban passed earlier this year. She gets pulled over and they didn't believe the license was hers. They later charge her for driving with an invalid license. She complied with the law and was still charged criminally.

A major scandal has broken out in Norway at NBTK, the national gender clinic that has notoriously limited access to care. Researchers, including SEGM affiliate Anne Wæhre, engaged in substantial misconduct and ethical violations in their research on trans people. www.aftenposten.no/norge/i/43RE...

After years claiming her Anti-Trans stance was not inherently Anti-LGB, Chloe Cole recently admitted her homophobic views based on her newfound religious beliefs. According to filings in her lawsuit, she detransitioned and found religion after hearing the Holy Spirit's voice during a bad LSD trip.

"trans existence is criminalized", in the UK. The Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention has spoken. www.lemkininstitute.com/statements-n...

I've spent the last two months putting together this exhaustive analysis of the New York Times coverage of trans people. It covers 3,242 articles over 12 years. In 2022, the NYT shifted towards a hostile stance towards trans people in their framing. www.thedissident.news/exclusive-ho...

This FTC lawsuit against WPATH shows how anti-trans institutions rely on each other for circular validity. NHS cites Hungary and Finland to commission the Cass report. Cass gets cited by the FDA. FDA cited by the NHS for pullback jusitifications.

Everyone should read this. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Great thread about why this FTC lawsuit against WPATH is going nowhere fast. If there's something to be grateful for it's the continued incompetence of a DoJ run by sycophants who are genuinely terrible at their job.

I think Leor Sapir is genuinely an evil sociopath. His entire mission is to drive up suicides of trans people through policy and then run cover by attacking the evidence of it. He boosts this insane "nocebo effect" bullshit that seeks to blame trans people and their allies for suicides. It's DARVO.

"The FTC is to say the group overstated the link between gender-affirming care and preventing suicide by children and ​teens experiencing gender dysphoria..." What do you want to bet the FTC will cite Sapir's recent article or the "review" he cited?

Anti-trans group ‘Democrats for an Informed Approach to Gender’ is trying to weaponize my anti-trans Dems tracker. So I took it down. To them, I say this: you—and all other supporters of the gender-affirming care ban that nearly killed me—don’t get to value my work if you don’t value my life.

This may have implications for the Trump administration's unlawful persecution of Rhode Island Hospital for treating transgender minors. DOJ has conducted this "investigation" from Texas to get the assistance of a lunatic MAGA judge. But it's not at all clear DOJ can charge the hospital in Texas.

A new study of 445 adolescents treated at pediatric gender clinics in Canada found that after a mean 2.4 years, 94.6% still identified as trns. Of the 353 who started hormonal treatments, 1.1% discontinued them. www.jahonline.org/article/S105...

Really not great that this abusive hack is getting published in respectable journals. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

1. This article has made waves. I have tried to push Mayor Mamdani to be better in my reporting, and I am sad that it has not worked. I have seen many questions about this story, and I want to talk about some of them. Read on.

BREAKING: A federal judge in California has, as a very interim step, blocked Stanford children's hospital (LPCH) from turning over patient records responsive to the N.D. Texas trans care grand jury subpoena and barred DOJ from taking any action to enforce it while he considers a new TRO request.

I think it should be between families and their doctors but surgery itself is exceptionally rare: Out of 121,000 US youth diagnosed with gender dysphoria in a five year period, just 0.6% received surgical care (per a Reuters analysis of EHRs). Just 14% received any medical treatment at all.

Why is it any of Talarico's business in the first place? The government shouldn't be involved in the healthcare decisions of families.

Bans on trans students' participation in sports don't protect girls & women like some politicians claim—they open them up to sexual harassment & abuse by requiring invasive exams to "prove" their gender. This is what we're fighting when we're fighting back against these bans.

Good news just in time for Pride! Hawai'i Governor Josh Green has signed the trans shield law in the state. Hawai'i was one of the last blue states left without a shield law protecting trans people's healthcare. The latest from staff writer S. Baum. Subscribe to support our journalism.

BREAKING: We're suing the Department of Justice for demanding a New York City hospital turn over private medical records about trans youth who've received gender affirming care. The goal of these baseless subpoenas is clear — pressuring providers into dropping patients and obeying President Trump.

“When the federal government can reach across the country and pull a child’s entire medical file out of the filing cabinet without so much as a phone call to the parents, every family in America should be concerned. This is not how a limited government is supposed to work.” @nclrights.bsky.social

That's my senator.

@rikiwilchins.bsky.social 2026Jun Politico GOP hard-liners promised voters a shower of new anti-trans bills -- but tho they've introduced a record number, Rep leadership has refused to prioritize them and now time is running out, with one or both chambers poised to go blue.

From fighting the Trump administration in court to defending gender-affirming care at HHS, my focus has been on leveraging the law to protect trans people and especially youth. As Governor, I will stand firm to secure California's status as a sanctuary state for trans youth and their families.

It’s shocking more people aren’t talking about this!