Attorney General Ken Paxton of Texas announced on Monday a new interpretation of state law that would extend the state’s ban on gender-affirming care for minors to mental health providers, declaring that any therapist who affirms a trans youth’s gender identity is “facilitating” illegal treatment and committing child abuse. Under his interpretation, therapists, counselors…
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Two transgender residents of Kansas are suing the state over its newly enacted anti-trans law that has invalidated the driver’s licenses of hundreds of trans people. The new law also authorizes any individual to sue anyone in Kansas who they suspect of using the “wrong” restroom, based on the state’s new definition of gender, which wrongly states that gender is equivalent to the sex a person…
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Transgender residents of Kansas have received letters informing them that a new state law requires them to forfeit their driver’s licenses if they include a gender marking that doesn’t match the sex identity they were assigned at birth. Kansas House Substitute Bill 244 changes the state definition of “gender” to mean a person’s “biological sex at birth,” a definition that is rejected by many…
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In the United States, it is possible to be unhoused even inside a prison. At the South Central Correctional Center in Tennessee, people sleep in doorways, closets, or even in the showers. “Anywhere that’s pretty much off camera,” said Bishop, a man imprisoned in the facility who chose not to use his last name out of fear of retaliation. Atticus, another man in the prison…
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Lawmakers across the country have introduced hundreds of bills targeting transgender people in the first month of 2026, a surge that advocates said reflects a decadelong political strategy that has steadily escalated since major court victories for LGBTQIA+ rights. The American Civil Liberties Union is tracking just shy of 400 anti-LGBTQIA+ bills in state legislatures nationwide…
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On Monday, the National Park Service (NPS) removed a Pride flag from the Stonewall National Monument in New York City — a move many observers have condemned as just the latest attempt by the Trump administration to erase LGBTQ history and culture in the U.S. The Stonewall Inn is a dive bar in Manhattan that is widely considered the birthplace of the LGBTQ liberation movement. In 1969…
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