Perspectives

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The far-right’s dehumanization of trans people is similar to the Nazi’s treatment of Jewish people

Throughout history, autocratic regimes, especially authoritarian or populist ones on the far left and the far right, have demonized what they have determined to represent their nations’ “internal enemies,” foes who, if left to thrive, would undermine the security and very existence of these societies. Regimes have done this to consolidate and expand its power, to divert attention away from misdeeds and failed economic and social policy initiatives, to justify repressive tactics, to stifle critical thinking, and to create a more pliant and obedient population. Though the processes of marginalizing and isolating these purported internal enemies vary by case and […]

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Trump DOJ sues Minnesota over its trans-inclusive school sports policies

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The Department of Justice (DOJ) announced on Monday that it is suing Minnesota and the Minnesota State High School League (MSHSL) for allowing transgender girls and women to play on school sports teams matching their gender identity. The case, filed in the Minnesota District Court, is just the Trump administration’s latest attempt to impose a nationwide ban on trans student-athletes (without congressional approval) by harassing and blackmailing states into dropping their trans-inclusive policies. The DOJ claims that schools with trans-inclusive sports policies violate Title IX, the federal law that bans discrimination on the basis of sex in education. President Joe […]

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NASCAR indefinitely suspends driver who mocked IndyCar racer’s ‘gay voice’

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NASCAR indefinitely suspended Kaulig Racing driver Daniel Dye after he mocked another driver with a homophobic remark during a livestream, triggering swift disciplinary action from both his team and the sanctioning body. The sanctioning body announced the suspension on Tuesday, saying Dye violated a rule prohibiting members from making public statements that “criticize, ridicule, or otherwise disparage” someone based on characteristics, including sexual orientation. Stay up to date with the latest in LGBTQ+ news with The Advocate’s email newsletter, in your inbox five days a week. The move happened after Dye, in a livestream on social media, insinuated an IndyCar driver […]

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The Federal Bureau of Prisons is running a conversion therapy program. We must not let it stand

On February 19, 2026, the Federal Bureau of Prisons issued a new policy on the “Management of Inmates with Gender Dysphoria.” The title sounds clinical. The reality is brutal: the federal government has now officially placed itself in the business of punishing transgender people for being who they are, by withdrawing their medical care, confiscating their personal belongings, and subjecting them to forced psychological treatment. It is, in every meaningful sense, a blueprint for a government-run conversion therapy program, one targeting thousands of incarcerated people who have nowhere to turn. NCLR condemns this policy in the strongest possible terms. For now, […]

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Trans golfer sues USGA and LPGA after being barred from US Women’s Open qualifier

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A transgender golfer has filed a lawsuit challenging 2024 United States Golf Association policy changes in women’s professional golf after being denied entry into a US Women’s Open qualifier last year. Hailey Davidson is suing the USGA, the LPGA, three LPGA officials, and a New Jersey golf club which hosted the qualifier, arguing that updated policies unlawfully excluded her from competition. The case, filed Thursday (19 March) in New Jersey, seeks unspecified damages. At the centre of the dispute is a gender policy introduced in the USGA and LPGA for 2025 and beyond. The policy mandates that players in women’s categories must be […]

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Budget cuts and ignorance of history are racing us towards another HIV & AIDS epidemic

I’m old enough to remember what it looked like when the government decided AIDS wasn’t its problem. I remember the silence from the Reagan White House as funerals piled up. I remember watching and hearing about brilliant sons, partners, uncles, friends, entire communities disappear while officials shrugged and said this was a “gay” disease, something that happened to people who had brought it on themselves. Stay up to date with the latest in LGBTQ+ news with The Advocate’s email newsletter, in your inbox five days a week. Working on the Hill at the time, I listened to the horrid bigotry […]

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Christian nationalism’s role in the war with Iran — and U.S. LGBTQ+ rights

On Saturday morning, in the southern Iranian city of Minab, an airstrike struck a girls’ elementary school shortly after classes began. Rescue workers spent hours digging through the collapsed building. By the end of the day, between 165 and 180 people were dead, most of them girls between the ages of seven and twelve. The strike was part of a widening military campaign carried out jointly by the United States and Israel against Iran, a conflict that has already spread across multiple countries and killed hundreds of civilians. Events like this should force a moment of moral clarity. The deliberate or reckless […]

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Gay skier Jake Adicoff makes history at Winter Paralympic Games

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American skier Jake Adicoff made history as the first out gay athlete to be crowned an individual winter Paralympic champion, whilst also pulling off a gold medal clean sweep.  The 30-year-old, from Sun Valley in Idaho, competes in the vision-impaired category and prior to the Winter Paralympic Games he vowed to bring four gold medals home across four events – and he did just that.  Adicoff finished first in the sprint visually impaired, 10km classical visually impaired, 20km freestyle visually impaired and 4 x 2.5km mixed relay.  “Four races, four gold medals, that was the goal. It was really hard but it […]

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My Life With Chemsex and After Parties: The Grey Zone of Substance Use

This story was produced with the support of MISTR, a telehealth platform offering free online access to PrEP, DoxyPEP, STI testing, Hepatitis C testing and treatment and long-term HIV care across the U.S. MISTR did not have any editorial input into the content of this story. “Should we order some more drugs?” asked the half-naked, blurry-eyed accountant from across the room filled with half a dozen other guys. My first reaction was confusion. It was 9 a.m. and we’d been partying, fucking and awake for 38 hours. One person was passed out in the corner of the room, two others were […]

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UN Experts Rebut Olympics Sex Testing Plan

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United Nations human rights experts issued a damning public critique of the International Olympic Committee’s (IOC) plans to “sex test” all women athletes.  Last year, the IOC started a secret process to “protect the female category,” and it appears the result is an impending announcement that all women athletes will undergo genetic sex testing for the Los Angeles 2028 Olympic games.  Sex testing has long been used by sporting bodies to target women athletes who, often through variations in their sex characteristics, or intersex traits, have higher than typical natural testosterone. Yet sex testing has been debunked as unethical, unscientific, and unworkable, and has often relied […]

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