Visible, yet vulnerable: What journalists can learn from how we covered the attack on trans rights in Trump’s first 100 days. One big takeaway: Based on analysis of a representative sample of articles, 70% of stories about anti-trans executive orders didn’t quote trans people. bit.ly/TJA_visible

NEW: A Department of Veterans Affairs memo obtained by ProPublica sets up new roadblocks to care for male veterans with breast cancer. The agency cites no new science but relies on an executive order about “restoring biological truth” in government.

Last week, you helped us celebrate our 15th birthday in the biggest way! Not only did we achieve our original goal of $10,000 raised in one day, we surpassed it (raising ($11,500, to be precise!) and set a new stretch goal of raising $15,000. 🧪

I wrote the first version of this draft almost exactly a year ago, but I wasn’t ready. I am now. thebarbedwire.com/2025/10/27/t...

“After two decades of gains for LGBTQ+ visibility and rights in many countries, anti-LGBTQ+ targeted hate and rhetoric are on the rise.”

Here’s what you need to know to protect yourself and others in your community when encountering immigration enforcement officials and other law enforcement officers. mlk50.co/4oJKyHb

"The next generation is speaking up for all of our First Amendment rights." 👏 Thank you @stephruhle.bsky.social and @msnbc.com for highlighting IU's censorship and our amicus brief. As we empower student journalists to defend #pressfreedom, we are inspired every day by their courage and solidarity.

Over years and hundreds of handwritten pages of filings, Grace Pinson jumped over legal hurdles, all the way to trial. Fewer than 1% of federal prisoner civil rights claims reach that stage without an attorney, a luxury almost no one in prison can afford.

Richard Isay went through conversion therapy. He helped turn psychoanalysis against it. - buff.ly/nUyoYVa

"Gender-affirming care is not an abstract issue — it is life-saving health care," writes Joseph Torre of the Resilience Resource Center. "For our young people, it is the difference between fear and hope, despair and possibility." epgn.com/2025/10/16/g...

Stonewall Veteran Miss Major’s Legacy Lives On Through The Family She Built https://www.them.us/story/miss-major-griffin-gracy-family-death-legacy-history

Every gift up to $5,500 today will be doubled thanks to our matching partners: @cenmag.bsky.social, @hothousemag.bsky.social, @ksjatmit.bsky.social and @undark.org , @statnews.com, @7homaslin.com, and @transjournalists.org. Don’t miss this opportunity to give and celebrate 15 years of TON. 🧪

“More than 420 anti-science bills attacking longstanding public health protections – vaccines, milk safety and fluoride – have been introduced in statehouses across the U.S. this year, part of an organized, politically savvy campaign to enshrine a conspiracy theory-driven agenda into law.“

I've spent the last year working with amazing comrades on @theflytrapmedia.com; when we launched a Kickstarter to bring feminist cultural criticism back to the internet last year, supporters delivered. To keep that going, we need you to subscribe (and resubscribe), and we're offering a 15% discount!

“We’re at a time where there are places and people who are trying to remove LGBTQ people and their stories from the public space, so this panel will include people who are, in their life’s work, doing the opposite," said Conrad Benner. epgn.com/2025/10/14/m...

Jobs alone cannot solve trans unemployment, @but-im-kim-tran.bsky.social reports. A complex matrix of poverty & punishment fuels the trans unemployment crisis, as community members experience roughly twice the rates of joblessness as cisgender people.

There's still time to get ahold of our Banned Books t-shirt in support of in support of our good friends at @404media.co, @transjournalists.org and @themarshallproject.org!

Good morning I’m in @theverge.com profiling @ekkoastral.bsky.social @jael.bsky.social and some other cool trans musicians who are bringing the organizing energy they learned from being trans online to music venues across the country. These musicians are meeting the moment.

The fight against female genital mutilation is being co-opted by anti-trans activists, hindering urgent laws from being passed. And as the White House and Republicans falsely conflate FGM with gender-affirming care, it’s only getting worse. New reporting from @jazzmyth.bsky.social and myself

Join us on 10/28 for We Were Here, a live virtual celebration of LGBTQ+ History Month. Featuring Mark Segal, Martha Shelley, Robert Emery, Victor Salvo and Carter Cavazos — voices preserving our shared queer history. Click the link & sign up for email reminders. newsisout.com/2025/10/save...

News coverage of the attacks on trans rights are excluding trans voices. @media-studies.bsky.social and @transjournalists.org found that 70% of articles about trans people did not quote any trans people, and just 6% quoted trans youth. Journalists can do better. Full report here: bit.ly/TJA_visible

What journalists can learn from how we covered the attack on trans rights in Trump's first 100 days. Big takeway: based on analysis of a representative sample of articles, 70% of news stories about anti-trans executive orders didn’t quote a single trans person. bit.ly/TJA_visible

#TipTuesday 📑 Are you looking to extract information from many documents? This tool allows you to upload documents in PDF format and get answers to questions related to the document.

In case you missed it, we've put together a Banned Books t-shirt in support of in support of our good friends at @404media.co, @transjournalists.org and @themarshallproject.org. www.muckrock.com/news/archive...

Understanding the difference between substance use disorders and addiction rjionline.org/news/underst...

After a hurricane, many people worry about losing power. For trans Floridians, it can mean losing access to lifesaving medication and navigating hostility at disaster shelters. But one woman’s hurricane response team is stepping in:

Mary Retta on the Trump admin's attacks on higher ed and diversity itself, from the "compact" to their hostility enabling colleges to seemingly stonewall their unions and dispose of roles @teenvogue.com "I think the numbers of Black and certain other minoritized students and faculty will decrease.”

📚🎸 It’s #BannedBooksWeek & @muckrock.com is going on tour! They’re teaming up with @themarshallproject.org, @transjournalists.org , & @404media.co to track what books are being banned in schools, libraries, & prisons. 👉 muckrock.com/news/archive... #FOIA #Censorship

“I'm optimistic that, you know, five years from now a majority of kids are going to be in a private school choice program.” www.propublica.org/article/educ...

“Power, for me, means what we can do collectively to make our own power,” said Jose Demarco — longtime ACT UP organizer. “Power’s a weird thing. You have to know how to wield it.” epgn.com/2025/10/07/l...

PJP's @profpasha.bsky.social talks about the importance of prison journalism and why incarcerated people deserve their stories to be just as loud as everyone else.

I didn't have Alito suggesting that states can't rely on medical consensus for standards of care bc it's been "politicized" or "taken over by ideology" in the past—and then immediately citing SCOTUS' forced sterilization case on my bingo card. My rundown on today: www.huffpost.com/entry/suprem...

"We're going to do whatever it takes to keep her safe." How families are fighting to survive Trump's war on transgender kids

We launched this free resource today and we're grateful to our @transjournalists.org friends, @petrinkae.bsky.social and @trevellanderson.bsky.social, for their partnership. Many of the issues that affect transgender people tend to be politicized and mired in misinformation. Let's do better.

And if you're a reporter without much experience covering conversion therapy/trans people/trans health care more broadly, I highly recommend checking out the resource list that @transjournalists.org and @theopennotebook.bsky.social put together. www.theopennotebook.com/resources-fo...

How to: 🔘 Understand reports on trans youth health care 🔘 Report on EOs targeting trans Americans 🔘 Report on polls about trans issues From TON and @transjournalists.org, here’s a free collection of resources for all journalists. 🧪 www.theopennotebook.com/resources-fo...

Our good friends at @404media.co, @transjournalists.org and @themarshallproject.org have all been filing requests to find out what books are banned and where, so we decided it was time to hit the road and go on tour — a FOIAs tour. www.muckrock.com/news/archive...

Today, #SCOTUS will rule on a conversion therapy ban in CO. If you're a journalist covering the case, make sure to check out this free resource we created in partnership with @transjournalists.org to help you engage in responsible, evidence-based reporting.

NEW: Christian legal group Alliance Defending Freedom "deceived" the Supreme Court + "profoundly misrepresented" LGBTQ+ research, according to scholars cited by ADF. Quoted experts speak out about ADF's "distortions" + "false evidence" in major case, on deck tomorrow, to revive "conversion therapy"

Kicking off GIJN’s #AsiaFocus this story examines why the continent is a unique laboratory in the global media landscape. Still journalists here face multifaceted challenges from censorship & physical threats to digital surveillance & financial pressures.

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if the state of journalism and its capture by the right wing also has you in despair, a real, tangible thing you can do to push back is support/subscribe to worker-owned indie news media!! @coyotemedia.org (bay area) @51st.news (dc) @racketmn.com (mn) @autonomynews.co @505omatic.bsky.social (nm)

FWIW, that PinkNews piece was incredibly inaccurate. There's nothing in the CR as is that would ban gender-affirming care. There IS in the House version of the full fiscal year spending bills. But not the CR right now. bsky.app/profile/eric...

On Friday 18 blue state attorneys general BLASTED the Federal Trade Commission, telling it to back off trans youth healthcare and warning of an insidious attempt to reshape the regulation of medicine in the US. And nobody covered it. www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...

So great to spend time today with my friend and First Amendmemt warrior @karenattiah.bsky.social Please suppport her Substack as well her fight to protect our most basic Constitutional freedoms during this critical time. @nabjlaofficial.bsky.social @transjournalists.org @nlgjaofficial.bsky.social

Since Charlie Kirk’s assassination, HBCUs received terroristic threats. Black students have been expelled or forced to withdraw. Black professors and teachers have been fired and placed on leave. A Black firefighter was placed on leave. A Black journalist was fired thebarbedwire.com/2025/09/26/f...

A growing number of Americans believe that gender-affirming care will become less accessible in their lifetime, a new 19th News/SurveyMonkey poll finds — reflecting a political landscape that has become increasingly hostile toward transgender people and their health care.

A new 19th News/@SurveyMonkey.com poll shows that the share of people who think gender-affirming care will get less accessible nearly doubled in the last year.

The Missouri Supreme Court heard arguments Wednesday on a law that bans gender-affirming care for minors and restricts Medicaid coverage for transgender care at any age, but the justices gave little indication of how they might rule. www.law360.com/artic...

I looked into the group and the guy pushing the FBI to create a new designation of “transgender ideology–inspired violence and extremism”—itself a political project, meant to conflate the fact of trans people’s existence with extremism.