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What is the ‘Gender Unicorn’ diagram and why are right-wingers so annoyed about it?

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Anti-LGBTQ+ right-wing activists are notorious for getting annoyed about almost anything, and the latest addition to the ever-growing list is the Gender Unicorn diagram.  Don’t believe that they’ll get annoyed about anything? Buckle up: we’ve got receipts.  In June, right-wingers hit out at a member of staff at Office for National Statisticsfor wearing a Pride flag badge, with one critic describing it as the “flag of transgender activism”. The year before, right-wing news outlets were left “outraged” by a trans artwork, funded by London’s Mayor Sadiq Khan, for London’s Trafalgar Square.  A Christmas advert featuring Black actress Adjoa Andoh as Mrs. Claus, that saw her […]

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Walking the tightrope: Being a queer therapist in a system built to erase us

Being a queer therapist often feels like walking a tightrope, balancing high above a circus built by a system that was never meant for people like me to perform. The rope is taut, the stakes are high, and below is a crowd that has, at times, cheered for me to fall. On other days, I am the ringmaster of my quiet revolution, shaping the show, choosing the music, and refusing to let the system dictate the script. In truth, I am always a bit of both; I move between survival and defiance, between navigating oppressive structures and reimagining them entirely. The mental health system, […]

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Six Former US Surgeons General: RFK Is A “Profound, Immediate, Unprecedented Danger To US Public Health”

From a Washington Post oped published today: As former U.S. surgeons general appointed by every Republican and Democratic president since George H.W. Bush, we have collectively spent decades in service as the Nation’s Doctor. We took two sacred oaths in our lifetimes: first, as physicians who swore to care for our patients and, second, as public servants who committed to protecting the health of all Americans. Today, in keeping with those oaths, we are compelled to speak with one voice to say that the actions of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. are endangering the health of the nation. Never […]

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Pennsylvania families fight Trump Justice Department subpoenas for their trans kids’ private medical records

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In Pennsylvania, two federal judges appointed by President Barack Obama are now at the center of a fight over whether the U.S. government can seize the private medical records of transgender youth. The battle, two legal cases unfolding in both Philadelphia and Pittsburgh, pits families and hospitals against the Department of Justice and raises fundamental questions about constitutional privacy, federal power, and the future of gender-affirming health care in the United States. The cases stem from a series of administrative subpoenas issued by the Justice Department this summer as part of the Trump administration’s escalating campaign against gender-affirming care. Families and their attorneys argue that the government is not attempting to root […]

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Trump administration to hold back grants from NYC, Chicago, Fairfax schools over trans bathroom policies

Three of the nation’s largest public school districts stand to lose $24 million after missing a Trump administration deadline to agree to change policies supporting transgender students, officials said Wednesday. The U.S. Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights had given New York City Schools, Chicago Public Schools and Fairfax County Public Schools in Virginia until Tuesday to agree to stop giving students access to locker rooms and restrooms corresponding with their gender identity or risk losing funding for specialty magnet schools. In letters to the districts Sept. 16, the Education Department’s acting assistant secretary for civil rights, Craig Trainor, said […]

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Feds quietly scrub transgender people from national security reports on threats to LGBTQ+ community

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The Trump administration’s campaign to extinguish transgender visibility has moved into the mechanics of national security, stripping transgender people from federal intelligence bulletins that are supposed to keep all Americans safe. As first reported by investigative journalist Ken Klippenstein, federal threat assessments drafted ahead of Pride Month this year omitted any mention of transgender people, instead referring to the “LGB+ community.” Klippenstein, a Washington-based reporter known for exposing government secrecy, obtained the documents through public records requests and published them on Wednesday. Historically, these assessments used “LGBTQ+” or “LGBTQIA+.” The sudden absence of the “T” is part of a broader project by Republicans to erase transgender people from public […]

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Heritage Foundation uses false data to smear trans people as school shooters

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The Heritage Foundation, the extreme right-wing think tank behind Project 2025, has issued a report claiming half of recent school shootings are linked to “transgender ideology” to back up its call for the FBI to investigate “Transgender Ideology-Inspired Violent Extremism” as a domestic terrorist threat. But Wired magazine has analyzed the report and found it doesn’t align with the facts. The report from the Heritage Foundation and its spin-off organization, the Oversight Project, defines “transgender ideology” as “a belief that wholly or partially rejects fundamental science about human sex being biologically determined before birth, binary, and immutable.” The foundation has a history of demonizing trans people. […]

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Republicans seek deep cuts to HIV prevention and treatment funding

In his 2019 State of the Union address, President Donald Trump pledged to boost HIV spending, with the lofty goal of bringing the nation’s epidemic to heel by 2030. Last year, this federal initiative, Ending the HIV Epidemic, demonstrated progress. This year, however, Republicans are seeking deep cuts to HIV prevention and treatment funding. The Trump administration proposed in its 2026 budget request to eliminate the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s HIV-prevention division, and House Republicans are seeking nearly $2 billion in HIV-related cuts in their federal health spending bill. The Senate, on the other hand, proposes to keep HIV funding essentially at current levels in its corresponding […]

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Pope Leo says blessing same-sex weddings is ‘not what the Church teaches’

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Pope Leo is continuing his predecessor’s decision to bless same-sex couples — so long as they don’t look too much like a wedding. The new pontiff recently said in an interview with Christian newspaper Crux that “the church’s teaching will continue as it is” in regards to marriage equality, while criticizing some ceremonies in which priests have blessed couples as they legally marry. “I’ve already spoken about marriage, as did Pope Francis when he was pope, about a family being a man and a woman in solemn commitment, blessed in the sacrament of marriage,” Leo said. “But even to say that, I understand […]

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AIDS United Launches Advisory Council to Advance HIV Care and Prevention for Black Women

AIDS United’s Melanated Movement team is proud to announce the launch of the Melanated Movement Engagement Advisory Council, a group of women-identified leaders committed to reshaping the narrative around HIV care and prevention for both Cis and Transgender women. Rooted in the principles of ViiV Healthcare’s From Risk to Reasons initiative, the Melanated Movement portfolio focuses on the motivations, strengths, and resilience that empower Black women to take charge of their sexual and reproductive health for both Cisgender and Transgender women. The Advisory Council will serve as a guiding body, helping shape the program’s growth, outreach, and impact while ensuring that the voices and experiences of […]

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