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Christian nationalist law firm threatens to sue school over trans teacher

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A right-wing law firm has threatened to sue North Carolina’s Wake County Public School System unless it lets parents opt their children out of a class taught by a transgender teacher. The Thomas More Society set out its demands in a letter dated 15 September, giving the district 15 days to comply before it files suit. The demands include restrictions around pronouns, LGBTQ+ discussions, and access to facilities, including urging the district to agree not to discipline students for using incorrect pronouns for the teacher. The group also wants assurances that “no employee can retaliate” against a student who opts out of […]

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For Lesbian Victims of Domestic Violence, Competent Care Is Scarce

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Claire, a 25-year-old Los Angeles resident, distinctly remembers the night she and her ex-girlfriend broke up. “She was strangling me in a CVS parking lot,” Claire recalls, adding how she was gasping for air as bystanders looked on. “I made eye contact with one man who just kept walking, and we were right behind a car that was trying to reverse out of a parking spot. No one got out of the car. They didn’t honk; they didn’t do anything.” Claire, who asked to use a pseudonym due to safety concerns regarding her ex, says she managed to fight her […]

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For LGBTQ+ youth, vaping is becoming a dangerous coping mechanism

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It’s long been known that the bullying LGBTQ+ people face in their youth can have lifelong health ramifications, but a new study is finding this type of social rejection may have a particularly impactful effect on vaping rates. Previous research has shown that LGBTQ+ people tend to vape at disproportionately high rates compared to their straight and cisgender peers, with 22% of gay men and lesbians and 18% of bisexuals vaping, compared to 15% of straight people. But according to a new study published in the journal of Prevention Science, LGBTQ+ youth may exhibit high rates of e-cigarette and vape usage because of […]

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BOYCOTT: Elon Musk is pushing millions into dishonest, anti-trans midterm ads

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America PAC, the super PAC backed by Elon Musk, is set to spend over $100 million in an effort to help Republicans win in the midterms. So far, that spending budget seems to be going almost exclusively towards anti-trans ads that push scaremongering lies about trans people, misinformation about Democratic candidates, and are (in some cases) likely AI-generated. “Elon Musk is scapegoating LGBTQ+ Americans to distract voters from the cuts he made and the chaos he has caused,” Ramiro Sarmiento, the National Press Secretary for the Human Rights Campaign, said in a statement. “Trans people aren’t the reason cancer research has […]

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The Potential Impact of Voter Identification Laws on Transgender Voters in the 2026 General Election

Transgender people face unique obstacles to obtaining identity documents (ID) that match their gender identity. Identity documents that do not match a person’s gender, such as a person’s name or gender marker, create obstacles to participating in many facets of public life, including voting. Such obstacles may affect voting in the 36 states with voter ID laws, especially the 33 that conduct their elections primarily in person. In these states, voters encounter additional verification requirements at the polls, in addition to federal standards for voter registration and eligibility determination. The strictest of these voter ID laws require voters to present […]

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“A fighting chance”: Trans rights are in the balance in the midterm elections

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Trans people’s rights are a top concern among LGBTQ Nation readers this year.  Last month, we asked you what your main concerns are for the 2026 midterms and what you think they could change. Quite a few people discussed trans rights, which have been under attack for the past several years.  “Like all trans people in the US right now, the relentless attacks, both through real action and through political messaging, have had a profound impact on my own health and wellbeing,” Ellie Spoering told LGBTQ Nation. “I don’t have any trans friends who are not feeling the impact of these attacks, especially […]

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Female-only app Giggle For Girls loses appeal in trans discrimination case

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The High Court of Australia has blocked Giggle for Girls app founder Sall Grover from challenging the landmark ruling that found excluding a transgender womanfrom her app was gender identity discrimination. After years of back-and-forth court appeals, this landmark case (dubbed Tickle v Giggle) has finally come to an end. Giggle for Girls was marketed as a female-only space. The app allowed women to find roommates, engage in freelance work, find friendship groups and more. The discrimination case brought by trans woman Roxanne Tickle was against Giggle for Girls and its founder, Sall Grover. Grover’s Wikipedia page describes her as a “self-identified trans-exclusionary radical feminist”. […]

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A First Nation is making itself a safe haven from Alberta’s trans youth care ban

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The Saddle Lake Cree Nation is standing up against the Canadian Province of Alberta’s gender-affirming care ban by positioning itself as a safe haven for transgender people seeking medical care.  In December 2024, Alberta Premier Danielle Smith and other members of the United Conservative Party passed a law that bars medical providers in the Canadian province from prescribing gender-affirming care like puberty blockers and hormone therapy to trans youth under age 16. Smith previously stated that the ban’s goal is to “preserve [the] fertility” of young people, despite longstanding scientific research that puberty blockers do not render a person infertile, and studies demonstrating repeatedly that gender-affirming care saves lives. Stay up to date […]

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BOYCOTT: Lilly Wachowski says ‘If you support Harry Potter, you’re supporting trans genocide’

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Lilly Wachowski, acclaimed co-director of films including The Matrix, Bound, andV For Vendetta, said in a new interview that supporting the Harry Potter franchise is akin to supporting genocide against transgender people. In an interview with Variety published today, Wachowski was asked about her thoughts on the controversy surrounding HBO’s upcoming Harry Potter series set to premiere in December. The project has been met with significant LGBTQ+ backlash, especially given author J.K. Rowling’s involvement as executive producer and the author’s long history of anti-trans organizing.  Stay up to date with the latest in LGBTQ+ news with The Advocate’s email newsletter, in your inbox five days a week. “She is funding trans genocide. J.K. […]

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Justice Department sues Kansas schools for protecting trans students from being outed

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The Justice Department has filed a lawsuit against a Kansas school district, accusing officials of helping students socially transition at school without informing their parents. The Trump administration’s suit against Kansas City, Kansas Public Schools, the fifth-largest school district in the state, marks the first such legal action in the department’s history. “Parental rights are paramount in the operation of America’s public schools, and Kansas City, Kansas Public Schools does not know children better than their own parents,” said Harmeet Dhillon, assistant attorney general and head of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division. “The Department will not tolerate school districts playing fast and loose with […]

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