Federal judge blocks Trump admin's gender-restrictive passport policy
The State Department can't enforce the policy denying gender marker changes or the X marker while a lawsuit against it proceeds, the judge ruled.
April 18, 2025
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Donald Trump orders Women’s History Museum to remove trans people or lose funding
Trump has declared the accomplishments of trans people are “improper ideology.”
April 9, 2025
Trump vs. Maine: State refuses anti-trans sports policies as federal agencies push to cut funding
Here's everything you need to know about Trump's spat with Gov. Janet Mills of Maine.
March 24, 2025
This cancer researcher was studying LGBTQ+ people. Her work is now in limbo
A researcher at the George Washington Cancer Center says Trump could erase years of scientific work.
February 28, 2025
Philadelphia schools will allow trans athletes to compete, rejecting Trump executive order
The Philadelphia School District has announced that it will continue to allow transgender athletes to compete on teams that align with their gender identity.
February 27, 2025
Over 80 House Democrats demand Trump rescind gender-affirming care ban: 'We want trans kids to live'
The letter, introduced by Rep. Becca Balint and signed by 89 House Democrats, asserts that the ban "threatens the lives and well-being of the young people who need this care, which is supported by every major medical association."
February 27, 2025
Marco Rubio may have just banned trans foreigners seeking visas from U.S. entry
A new state department cable, meant to target transgender athletes, indicates a potential broader application to all transgender visas, which it states must contain "sex at birth."
February 27, 2025
How the U.S. is betraying LGBTQ+ communities worldwide
Lives are on the line as shelters close, programs shut down, and vulnerable individuals are left without support, writes All Out's Matthew Beard.
February 24, 2025
Maine Gov. Janet Mills confronts Donald Trump to his face over anti-trans sports order at White House
“See you in court,” she told the president when he declared his administration’s policies to be “the federal law.”
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February 21, 2025
Trump’s health department launches ‘vile’ anti-trans website featuring right-wing influencer (exclusive)
Trump and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. “are starting their tenure at HHS by attacking trans people, harming their access to health, and promoting unscientific rhetoric about sex as a so-called immutable characteristic,” former HHS official Adrian Shanker told The Advocate.
February 19, 2025
Anti-trans headers placed on websites judge ordered Trump to restore
The headers were placed on major websites at the CDC, FDA, and HHS.
February 18, 2025
Trump is ‘dangerously’ conflating gender-affirming care with a human rights violation
Groups that work to end female genital mutilation and cutting worry about an executive order that co-opts the policies they’ve worked to pass over nearly 30 years.
February 14, 2025
Google Calendar removes Pride Month and Black History Month shortly after dropping DEI
Google's changes also removed Women's History Month, National Native American Heritage Month, Hispanic Heritage Month, Jewish Heritage Month, and Holocaust Remembrance Day.
February 11, 2025
Trump Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth enacts harshest anti-trans military policies yet
New enlistments for transgender people are stopped, care for existing service members paused and promotions held up, according to the defense secretary’s latest memo.
February 11, 2025
Civil rights leaders vow to fight Donald Trump’s ‘Jim Crow 2.0’ assault on DEI (exclusive)
“Donald Trump and his administration are clearly confused about American values,” NAACP president and CEO Derrick Johnson told The Advocate.
February 7, 2025
How to support trans youth and their families amid Trump’s gender-affirming care ban
We must always make it clear that trans youth are loved, valued, and here to stay.
January 31, 2025
Under Trump's 'authoritarian era,' these LGBTQ+ and abortion rights activists are standing up
The organizers behind last year's Gender Liberation March tell The Advocate about how they're fighting back now.
January 30, 2025
Trump signs executive order targeting transgender students, their teachers, and their schools
The new executive order looks to end so-called radical indoctrination in schools and includes topics related to race, privilege, and oppression.
January 29, 2025
Trump's latest order will devastate innocent trans youth and their families
Trans children only want to be their authentic selves, and this action will have severe repercussions, John Casey writes.
January 29, 2025
Elon Musk denied his dream West Wing office, and the Internet rejoices
Elon Musk may be heading up DOGE, but he won't be doing it from the White House.
January 28, 2025
Trump will ban trans women from women's prisons by removing trans inmates from rape protections
Provisions in one of the first orders signed by Trump mandate that transgender women be housed in men's prisons by stripping protections for trans prisoners in the Prison Rape Elimination Act.
January 24, 2025