What If Staying Stops Feeling Safe? The Fear of Being Trans in America
Many queer and transgender people grew up knowing they were different — and somehow knowing that being discovered could be dangerous. Now,…
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Trump Administration Investigates Massachusetts School Over Trans Student — But Key Facts Are Disputed
The Trump administration is investigating a Massachusetts school district over claims it supported a transgender student without parental knowledge. But court records,…
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The Education Department Collected Data on Trans Students. Then It Hid It.
Federal civil-rights data covering nonbinary students and gender-identity bullying reached the Education Department through school reporting. The department then removed those fields…
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HHS Links Ordinary Transgender Affirmation to Political Violence
A federally commissioned HHS report associates ordinary transgender-affirming beliefs with authoritarianism and approval of political violence. Its limitations—and parallels with historical patterns…
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Appeals Court Upholds Hamtramck’s Pride-Flag Ban, Calling City Flagpoles Government Speech
The Sixth Circuit upheld Hamtramck’s ban on Pride flags from city-owned flagpoles, finding that the city converted them into a platform for…
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Appeals Court Blocks Trump Administration’s ‘Gender Ideology’ Conditions on Local Grants
A federal appeals court has blocked the Trump administration from using housing and transportation grants to force local governments to comply with…
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New Mexico Says It Will Use State Money to Keep Gender-Affirming Care Available to Trans Youth
New Mexico plans to use state funds to continue covering gender-affirming care for transgender youth after the Trump administration cuts off federal…
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HHS Turns Anti-Trans Report Into Federal Referral List for DOJ Investigations
HHS has referred hospitals, clinics and pharmacies associated with gender-affirming care to federal investigators—even though its own commissioned report admits the insurance…
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“A Lot of America”: The Life, Death, and Warning of May Pollard
May Pollard was 16 years old. Her parents say she was caught in a climate of relentless hostility toward transgender youth. Her…
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Republicans Tried To Kill “Woke” Degrees. Now Religious Colleges May Be On The Chopping Block.
Republicans spent years attacking so-called “woke” college degrees, but new federal accountability measures based on graduate earnings could place religious colleges, seminary…
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