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Oregon to pay $295K to trans woman imprisoned until 2049

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As the Trump administration has stopped considering gender identity in its prison policies, Oregon officials will pay $295,000 to settle a lawsuit from a transgender woman who said she was abused while housed in a men’s prison, where a judge later found she was likely subjected to repeated harm. Zera Lola Zombie filed a federal lawsuit in 2021 alleging abuse during her time at Two Rivers Correctional Institution in Umatilla, in eastern Oregon. While she was later transferred to the Coffee Creek Correctional Facility, a women’s prison in Wilsonville, south of Portland, the Oregon Department of Corrections settled the case this week. Stay up to date […]

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Court rules trans people have right to accurate IDs: “Trans discrimination is sex discrimination”

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The Supreme Court of Montana ruled on Tuesday that trans residents of the state have a right to update their legal documents to accurately reflect their genders. “Transgender discrimination is, by its very nature, sex discrimination,” Justice Laurie McKinnon wrote in the court’s decision. “Government issued identification documents are necessary to access public life. When they do not accurately reflect a person’s sexual identity, the transgender Montanan is prevented, based on their sex, from obtaining the same attributes of public life that a cisgender Montanan may obtain. Hence, the inability of transgender Montanans to receive government-issued identification documents accurately reflecting their […]

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Missouri Republicans advance bill to police trans people’s bathroom access

Another state is trying to police who can use what restroom. Republicans in the Missouri House of Representatives have passed a bill requiring public entities to divide their bathrooms and changing areas by sex assigned at birth or face financial penalties. HB 2536 passed along party lines on Monday. The bill would codify definitions of “male” and “female” based on an individual’s “reproductive system” at birth. Institutions that receive state funds, like schools, shelters, and jails, would have to use these definitions to establish “single-sex” restrooms, changing rooms, and sleeping quarters. State colleges and universities would be required to separate dorms by sex assigned at birth. Stay up […]

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San Francisco Department of Public Health Confirms First Clade I Mpox Case in San Francisco

On April 14, the San Francisco Department of Public Health (SFDPH) confirmed the first case of clade I mpox in a San Francisco resident. The case occurred in an unvaccinated adult who was hospitalized and is improving. The individual reported close contact with someone who traveled internationally.  SFDPH strongly encourages people at risk for mpox to receive both doses of the mpox vaccine. The vaccine provides the best protection against the mpox virus and protects against both clade I and clade II. At this time, mpox exposure risk is low for individuals who are not in higher‑risk groups.   The mpox vaccine is available through healthcare providers and local pharmacies. Those who do not have insurance or are having difficulty accessing care may visit the locations listed […]

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150 Homes in 10 Years: How the Foster Care System Fails Trans Kids

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At 8 years old in rural Kansas, Hayden Dawson remembers being forced to eat outside with the dogs. Other times, they weren’t fed at all. “I would chew sunflowers outside because I was so hungry until my face would become splotchy with a rash,” Hayden, now 20, told Uncloseted Media. Hayden, who is nonbinary and gender fluid, says whenever they wanted to wear boy clothes, play with boy toys or express themself in a gender nonconforming way, their foster parents were “highly offended” and worried that Hayden would be a “bad influence on the other kids.” They lived in the […]

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Minnesota’s largest pediatric system restarts gender-affirming care for trans minors

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Minnesota’s largest pediatric health system is restoring gender-affirming care for minors after a federal judge blocked a Trump administration effort to label the treatment unsafe, reversing a suspension that had disrupted care for families across the state. Children’s Minnesota said it resumed services this week after pausing some forms of gender-affirming care in February, after Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. issued guidance declaring such care for minors outside accepted medical standards. The hospital system had suspended services on February 27 and restored them on April 6, according to Minnesota Public Radio. “Offering science- and research-based health care to transgender and gender diverse youth is part of […]

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Former Biden HHS leaders hail syphilis breakthrough as Trump dismantles the system behind it

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A cheap antibiotic that has been sitting in medicine cabinets for decades is suddenly doing something remarkable: helping reverse one of America’s fastest-growing sexually transmitted infections, and offering one of the clearest measurable successes of a Joe Biden-era LGBTQ+ public health initiative just as President Donald Trump’s administration dismantles many of the federal systems that made it possible. A new University of Washington study published in Clinical Infectious Diseases and highlighted recently by the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy found that doxyPEP, short for doxycycline post-exposure prophylaxis, is sharply reducing syphilis infections after federal health officials issued prescribing guidelines in 2023. Stay up to date with the latest […]

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Hegseth’s Pastor Calls For Criminalizing Homosexuality

Religion News Service reports: In Pastor Doug Wilson’s Christian nationalist America, there would be no minarets — only the sound of church bell towers. There would be no statues of Hindu deities or other non-Christian religious symbols in public spaces. Adultery would carry legal penalties, and Obergefell v. Hodges would be overturned. Under that framework, public celebrations of LGBTQ+ identity would not be tolerated. Wilson went further, offering praise for the 1969 Stonewall raids — the police action against a New York gay bar that sparked the modern LGBTQ+ rights movement. He added that said sodomy laws — which were on the books […]

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Wyoming quietly becomes ninth US state to ban gender marker changes on ID

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Wyoming has quietly become the ninth US state to effectively ban gender marker changes on driver’s licences, doing so without any public announcement. The policy change, first reported by Transitics via Substack on 9 April, weeks after it took effect, requires residents to present an amended birth certificate to update their gender marker. But because the state has already blocked those amendments, the rule creates a de facto ban on accurate identification for many trans people. The move is part of a broader wave of restrictions across the US, with multiple Republican-led states tightening rules around identity documents in recent months. In Wyoming’s […]

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The Trump administration is paying trans troops not to work

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A ban on transgender military service ordered by President Donald Trump within days of taking office, the second time, has left thousands of service members in an unusual and costly limbo. They are still on the payroll but barred from performing the jobs they were trained to do. For Sabrina Bruce, a Space Force master sergeant who led a cybersecurity team protecting classified satellites, the impact was immediate and operational. Bruce was removed from her post and left on the personnel rolls, meaning her position could not be filled even as critical national security work continued. Stay up to date with the latest in LGBTQ+ news […]

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