Trudy Ring

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N.Y. attorney general: stopping care for trans youth will violate state law

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New York State Attorney General Letitia James has advised health care providers in the state that failing to provide gender-affirming care to transgender minors violates New York antidiscrimination law. Donald Trump issued an executive order last week titled “Protecting Children from Chemical and Surgical Mutilation,” targets the use of puberty blockers, hormone therapies, and surgeries for anyone under 19, referring to them as “chemical and surgical mutilation.” It directs federal agencies to rescind policies supporting such treatments, withdraw funding from institutions that provide them, and enforce existing laws limiting access to these procedures. This comes even though these procedures are endorsed by every major medical organization. The order requires the Department of Health […]

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EEOC won’t advocate for trans and nonbinary people, in keeping with Trump’s ‘two sexes’ order

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The acting chair of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission is implementing Donald Trump’s “two sexes” executive order by removing many protections and information for transgender and nonbinary people. Acting Chair Andrea Lucas “announced that one of her priorities — for compliance, investigations, and litigation — is to defend the biological and binary reality of sex and related rights, including women’s rights to single-sex spaces at work,” an EEOC press release states. She has removed the agency’s pronoun app, which allowed employees to display their pronouns alongside their name on their Microsoft 365 profiles; ended the use of the X gender marker during the intake process for filing a discrimination charge; […]

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Arienne Childrey on becoming Ohio’s first trans city council member

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Arienne Childrey, the first out transgender person on any city council in Ohio, wants her constituents to know she can serve her town’s needs as well as anyone else. Her presence “means the same thing as having any other type of person on the city council,” Childrey, who was sworn in Monday as a member of the St. Marys City Council, tells The Advocate. “This is about good local government.” But she’s also eager to stand up for trans people and show that “we’re just your neighbors,” she adds. “I think it’s incredibly important to be on the council and show our LGBT community, our […]

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Gay Congresswoman Becca Balint: I’ll show Trump I’m not intimidated

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U.S. Rep. Becca Balint, a progressive gay Democrat from Vermont, is attending Donald Trump’s inauguration to show she’s not intimidated. “My presence at the inauguration will be my way of saying ‘I see you and I know what you’re about. And I won’t be intimidated by you,’” Balint wrote a Friday commentary piece for Courier, a news service. “It will be a way to show Americans and viewers across the world that I respect the vote of the people, unlike Trump himself. Four years on, he’s still lying about the 2020 Election. And Republican leaders in both the House and the Senate are not just complicit in […]

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Why some lesbians and bisexual women experience poverty

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Race and education level factor into poverty among lesbians and bisexual women — but there are some differences between the groups, and that has implications for public policy, according to a new study. “Research has demonstrated that sexual minority populations are more likely to experience poverty than sexual majority populations and that many of these disparities are driven by specific sexual minority subgroups, including cisgender bisexual women,” says the introduction to the study, published inWomen’s Health Issues. “Yet, little is known about the factors associated with economic insecurity that explain the intragroup differences in economic outcomes among sexual minorities, particularly among those of the same gender […]

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Senate to vote on Tommy Tuberville’s anti-trans athlete bill

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The U.S. Senate will vote on Sen. Tommy Tuberville’s bill to bar transgenderwomen and girls from competing in female school sports. Senate Majority Leader John Thune placed the bill on the chamber’s calendar last week, meaning a vote will be held in the next few weeks, The Hill reports. A firm date for the vote has not been set. The bill from Tuberville, an Alabama Republican, would stipulate that under Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, which bans sex discrimination in schools that receive federal funds, “sex shall be recognized based solely on a person’s reproductive biology and genetics at birth.” Tuberville announced its reintroduction last week. He […]

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Ed Sedarbaum, veteran Queens, N.Y., gay activist, has died at 78

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Ed Sedarbaum, a pioneer in the LGBTQ+ rights movement in New York City’sQueens borough, has died at age 78. Sedarbaum died November 20 in Williamstown, Mass., but his death is just now being reported by New York’s Gay City News. He was the widower of famed gay cartoonist and onetime Advocate contributor Howard Cruse, who died in 2019, aged 75. Sedarbaum was motivated to start Queens Gays and Lesbians United, a.k.a. Q-GLU, in 1991 in response to the murder of Julio Rivera in an antigay crime in Queens the previous year. As the New York City Council had just expanded from 35 to 51 members, “it seemed a […]

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California bill introduced to seal adults’ gender transition documents

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A bill being introduced Thursday in California would seal transgender and nonbinary adults’ gender transition court records, giving them the same privacy protections already available to minors. “The incoming Trump administration and Republican congressional leadership have made clear that targeting and erasing trans people is among their highest policy priorities, and California must have our trans community members’ backs,” state Sen. Scott Wiener said in a statement to media outlets. “Making this personal identifying information public after someone transitions, including a person’s deadname, as well as the basic fact that they’re trans or nonbinary, pointlessly exposes trans and nonbinary Californians to harassment and potential violence.” “As transgender people are viciously targeted by right wing […]

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Only 0.1 percent of youth receive gender-affirming meds: study

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While opponents of gender-affirming care for trans youth often act as if such care is common and undertaken thoughtlessly, it’s actually quite rare, according to a new study. The study, published Monday in JAMA Pediatrics, found that “fewer than 1 in 1,000 U.S. adolescents with commercial insurance received gender-affirming medications — puberty blockers or hormones — during a recent five-year period,” the Associated Press reports. Other studies have looked at gender-affirming surgery for transgender minors and concluded it is rare, but the use of medications for gender confirmation is not well-documented, the study’s authors note. “Because age and experience of puberty onset varies by sex assigned at birth and dictates […]

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President Jimmy Carter dead at 100 — here’s his history as an LGBTQ+ ally

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Former President Jimmy Carter, the 39th U.S. president, will be remembered as a staunch LGBTQ+ ally, although it took him time to evolve on some issues. The former president and Nobel Peace Prize winner died on Sunday after over a year in hospice care. He is the longest-lived U.S. president. He passed away at his home in Plains, Ga. — the same house he and his wife, Rosalynn, who died last year, spent the majority of their lives, according to the Carter Center. “Our founder, former U.S. President Jimmy Carter, passed away this afternoon in Plains, Georgia,” the center wrote on X, formerly […]

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