Transgender / Transsexual

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Trump administration investigating women’s university Smith College for trans policy

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On Monday (4 May), the Trump administration’s Department of Educationannounced it has opened an investigation into historic women’s university, Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts, over a possible violation of Title IX due to the school’s trans-inclusive acceptance policy. This investigation is the latest in rapidly increasing efforts from the Trump administration to restrict trans people in the arena of higher education across the country, following Trump’s January 2025 executive order defining gender as sex assigned at birth. Within this 2025 order, trans-inclusive interpretations of Title IX are considered to be harmful to women. The Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights will […]

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Lawsuit accuses Trump DOJ of stripping anti-rape protections from trans prisoners

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The Trump administration is facing a new federal lawsuit accusing the Justice Department of illegally dismantling protections meant to shield transgenderincarcerated people from sexual abuse. Filed on Wednesday in federal court in Washington, D.C., the lawsuit challenges a December 2025 Justice Department memorandum directing prisons and federal auditors to disregard portions of the Prison Rape Elimination Act, or PREA, regulations that specifically protect transgender people behind bars. Stay up to date with the latest in LGBTQ+ news with The Advocate’s email newsletter, in your inbox five days a week. The suit, Poe v. U.S. Department of Justice, was brought by the National Center for LGBTQ Rights on behalf of Paulina Poe, a transgender […]

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White House security directive focuses on ‘radically pro-trans’ groups

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The Trump administration is facing backlash after a new White House counterterrorism directive explicitly named “radically pro-transgender” groups among the domestic ideologies federal agencies should monitor. The memo, which also references anarchist and anti-fascist movements, frames trans activism as a potential national security threat while making no mention of far-right extremism or white nationalist organisations. The directive references left-wing violence and cites the 2025 killing of Charlie Kirk, carried out by Tyler Robinson, a person who prosecutors allege had recently begun dating a trans woman and criticising Kirk’s rhetoric online. White House counterterrorism official Sebastian Gorka also pointed to school shootings involving alleged […]

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Trans youth denied hormone therapy almost twice as likely to attempt suicide, survey finds

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A major new survey from The Trevor Project released on Wednesday (6 May) has found that transgender and nonbinary young people who wanted hormone therapy but were unable to access it were nearly twice as likely to report a suicide attempt in the past year compared to those currently receiving hormones. According to the report – which included over 10,000 responses from trans, nonbinary, and genderqueer people – 15% of trans youth denied access to hormones reported a suicide attempt, compared to 8% of those able to receive care. The findings add to a growing body of research linking restrictions on gender-affirming care to worsening mental […]

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Federal judge blocks FTC probes into trans medicine groups, citing ‘extensive evidence of animus’

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President Donald Trump suffered a pair of legal setbacks Thursday after a federal judge in Washington, D.C., blocked the Federal Trade Commission from enforcing investigative demands against two of the nation’s most influential medical organizations involved in transgender health care guidance. Chief Judge James Boasberg of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia granted preliminary injunctions to both the World Professional Association for Transgender Health and the Endocrine Society, temporarily halting FTC investigations that the groups argued were politically motivated and unconstitutional. Stay up to date with the latest in LGBTQ+ news with The Advocate’s email newsletter, in your inbox five days a week. The FTC […]

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Trans Democrat slams primary opponent for using “weaponized transphobia” against her

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Frank Liberati has filed a complaint against his opponent in a Democratic primary, erroneously claiming that she didn’t use her legal name in her campaign filings. The move has been called out as a transphobic attempt to remove Joanna Whaley from the ballot, with her supporters criticizing Liberati for weaponizing transphobia. “The Michigan Legislative LGBTQ+ Caucus denounces Frank Liberati’s meritless, transphobic attempt to remove Joanna Whaley from the primary election ballot,” the caucus said in a statement. “During a time of increasing and relentless attacks on the trans community, submitting this sort of meritless challenge to the Wayne County Clerk serves […]

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Federal judge says Oregon must house trans inmates by gender identity, not Trump’s policy

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A federal judge has ordered Oregon to house transgender women prisoners based on gender identity, issuing a ruling that conflicts with President Donald Trump’s executive order requiring that inmates be housed based on sex assigned at birth. U.S. Magistrate Judge Mark D. Clarke issued a preliminary injunction blocking the placement of transgender women in men’s facilities and ordered the Oregon Department of Corrections to conduct individualized assessments for all transgender women in custody, The Oregonian reports. Stay up to date with the latest in LGBTQ+ news with The Advocate’s email newsletter, in your inbox five days a week. While the state agency has an evaluation process in place, Clarke noted that […]

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The New York Times rarely quotes transgender people in trans stories

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The debate over how The New York Times covers transgender people is intensifying again, this time around a basic journalistic question: Who gets quoted when stories are about them? A new analysis published by Assigned Media found that while the Timesproduced more transgender-related coverage than any other outlet examined, it was the least likely to quote transgender people or trans advocacy organizations in stories primarily focused on transgender issues. Stay up to date with the latest in LGBTQ+ news with The Advocate’s email newsletter, in your inbox five days a week. The report reviewed articles published between January 1 and April 25 across 10 major news outlets. According to the analysis, […]

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Texas city declares Trans+ History Week in historic first

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One of Texas’s largest cities has formally recognized transgender history for the first time. The San Antonio City Council approved a resolution recognizing this week, May 4 through 10, as Trans+ History Week. Stay up to date with the latest in LGBTQ+ news with The Advocate’s email newsletter, in your inbox five days a week. “At a moment when both our state and country are systematically trying to push trans people out of public life, erase our stories, and outright deny our existence, this proclamation recognizing Trans History Week is a beacon to trans people in San Antonio and across Texas,” said Naveen Farrani, a […]

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Hospitals dodge questions on restoring trans youth care despite judge ruling they can keep providing it

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Many hospitals that cut off youth from gender-affirming care over concerns around the Trump administration are remaining silent on whether they will resume care, despite a federal court giving their programs legal clearance. Last December, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President Donald Trump’s secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, directed hospitals across the country to stop providing minors gender-affirming care, or risk losing funds from federal health programs like Medicaid. But on April 18, a federal judge in Oregon struck down the policy, ruling that Kennedy had overstepped the federal government’s role and created inconsistencies with existing laws. Stay up to date with the latest in LGBTQ+ news with The […]

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