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WorldPride organizers consider cautioning transgender visitors from abroad 

Organizers of WorldPride, a global LGBTQ Pride event series to be held this year in Washington, say they are considering issuing an advisory for...

11.04.2025 4

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Transgender pilot falsely linked to DC plane crash sues conservative influencer, alleging defamation

A transgender military helicopter pilot sued a conservative social media influencer for alleged defamation on Wednesday, two months after she was...

10.04.2025 2

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Brooke Migdon

Maine sues USDA over funding freeze

Maine Attorney General Aaron Frey (D) sued the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Monday over the agency’s recent decision to withhold federal...

08.04.2025 4

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USDA freezes funding for Maine schools over transgender athletes

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) said Wednesday it had frozen federal funds for some Maine education programs over the state’s refusal to...

03.04.2025 20

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Georgia legislature approves transgender athlete ban

Georgia lawmakers on Monday sent legislation to bar transgender student-athletes from participating in girls’ and women’s sports to Republican...

01.04.2025 3

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House Dems look to expand access to gender-affirming care amid Trump crackdown

More than two dozen House Democrats are looking to protect and expand availability to gender-affirming care for transgender youths and adults as the...

31.03.2025 3

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Trans leaders seek hope, action this Trans Day of Visibility 

The International Transgender Day of Visibility, recognized globally for more than a decade, is, for many trans Americans, taking on a new weight this...

31.03.2025 20

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Trump administration investigating Portland schools over transgender athlete

The Education Department is investigating Oregon’s largest school district and the state’s governing body for high school sports for allowing a...

26.03.2025 10

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5 transgender service members ask judge to shield them from military ban

Five transgender service members are requesting a judge block the Trump administration from enforcing a policy that bars trans people from serving...

25.03.2025 3

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Brooke Migdon

Federal court blocks Trump administration from separating 2 transgender airmen

A federal court on Monday temporarily blocked the Trump administration from separating two transgender service members from the military under a pair...

24.03.2025 3

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Brooke Migdon

Tennessee lawmakers send anti-transgender bathroom bill to governor's desk

Tennessee’s Republican-dominated Legislature voted Thursday to send legislation to limit access to facilities at residential education programs...

21.03.2025 10

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Advocates to rally in DC for Trans Day of Visibility amid Trump administration rollbacks

Transgender rights advocates from across the nation will gather on the National Mall this month in celebration of Transgender Day of Visibility, an...

20.03.2025 10

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Trump administration finds Maine in violation of Title IX over trans athletes

The Trump administration is giving Maine until March 27 to reverse its policy allowing transgender student-athletes to participate in girls’ and...

19.03.2025 5

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Appeals court partially overturns Ohio ban on transgender care for minors

An Ohio appeals court declared Tuesday that a portion of a 2023 law banning gender-affirming medical care for minors is unconstitutional, ruling that...

19.03.2025 10

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Third challenge filed to Trump’s order on transgender troops

Two transgender service members are suing the Trump administration over a pair of executive orders targeting transgender Americans and their...

18.03.2025 30

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VA halts gender-affirming care for transgender veterans

The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) will no longer offer gender-affirming medical treatment to transgender former service members, the department...

18.03.2025 20

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Texas bill would charge transgender people with 'fraud'

Transgender Texans could be charged with fraud under state legislation filed this month that seeks to make publicly identifying as trans illegal. ...

12.03.2025 10

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Republican adjourns hearing after blow-up over McBride introduction

A House Foreign Affairs subcommittee hearing ended abruptly Tuesday after Rep. Keith Self (R-Texas) referred to Rep. Sarah McBride (D-Del.), the first...

12.03.2025 70

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Transgender inmates sue Trump, Bureau of Prisons over policies restricting gender-affirming care

Three transgender people incarcerated in federal custody sued the Trump administration and the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) Friday in a class...

08.03.2025 4

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Newsom calls trans athletes playing in women's sports 'deeply unfair' 

California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) said he believes transgender athletes participating in girls’ and women’s sports is “deeply unfair,” breaking...

06.03.2025 5

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Student group challenges Texas A&M drag ban

A group of students is suing the Texas A&M University System after a vote last week banned all drag performances from taking place on its 11...

06.03.2025 10

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Brooke Migdon

GOP bill to ban trans athletes from women’s sports blocked in Senate 

Legislation to prevent transgender athletes from participating in girls’ and women’s sports failed to advance in the Senate on Monday after all...

04.03.2025 200

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Iowa governor signs nation's first bill removing transgender civil rights protections

Iowa became the first state to strike anti-discrimination protections for transgender people from its civil rights code on Friday after the state’s...

01.03.2025 10

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Thune says Senate will consider bill to restrict trans athletes 'early next week'

Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) says legislation to prevent transgender athletes from participating in girls’ and women’s sports will...

28.02.2025 4

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Brooke Migdon

Iowa lawmakers vote to remove gender identity as a protected class 

Iowa’s Republican-led Legislature voted Thursday to remove gender identity as a protected class from the state’s civil rights code, sending the...

28.02.2025 50

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Bondi warns states to comply with Trump order on transgender athletes

Attorney General Pam Bondi warned officials in Maine, California and Minnesota on Tuesday to comply with President Trump’s executive orders to bar...

26.02.2025 30

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Whitmer on Republican lawmaker's same-sex marriage resolution: 'Hell no'

Michigan Democrats, including Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, are pushing back against a Republican-led resolution asking the Supreme Court to reverse its...

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Supreme Court declines to take up challenge to Tennessee law restricting drag shows

The Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear a challenge to a Tennessee law restricting some drag performances, allowing the first-in-the-nation...

24.02.2025 3

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Actress Hunter Schafer says she was issued a male passport

Hunter Schafer, one of Hollywood’s most visible transgender stars, said she was issued a U.S. passport with a male gender marker after her original...

22.02.2025 7

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Trump threatens to withhold federal funds from Maine over transgender athletes

President Trump is threatening to withhold federal funds from Maine if it continues allowing transgender athletes to compete in girls’ and women’s...

21.02.2025 5

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LGBTQ health groups sue Trump over orders targeting diversity, transgender rights

Nine LGBTQ, health and HIV organizations sued the Trump administration Thursday over three executive orders targeting transgender people and...

21.02.2025 20

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Brooke Migdon

Kennedy Center cancels Pride performance featuring Gay Men’s Chorus of Washington

The Kennedy Center canceled an upcoming performance set to feature the Gay Men’s Chorus of Washington, which the center said was due to financial...

20.02.2025 30

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Education Department investigating Northern Virginia school districts for transgender support policies

The Education Department is investigating whether five Northern Virginia school districts violated Title IX and one of President Trump’s recent...

18.02.2025 80

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House Democrats call on Trump, Hegseth to reverse trans military ban

A group of House Democrats is urging President Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to halt enforcement of a ban on transgender service members. ...

14.02.2025 30

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Brooke Migdon

Kansas governor vetoes ban on gender-affirming care for minors

Kansas’s Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly vetoed a proposal to ban gender-affirming care for transgender youth for the third consecutive year, setting up...

12.02.2025 20

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Brooke Migdon

3 states sue Trump administration over gender-affirming care order 

Three states and three physicians sued the Trump administration Friday over an executive order meant to slash federal support for gender-affirming...

08.02.2025 4

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Brooke Migdon

Democratic attorneys general pledge to protect gender-affirming care following Trump order

More than a dozen Democratic state attorneys general on Wednesday affirmed their support for gender-affirming health care for transgender youth after...

06.02.2025 10

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Brooke Migdon

Families sue Trump administration over order to ban gender-affirming care 

Seven families with transgender children sued the Trump administration Tuesday over an executive order meant to broadly restrict access to...

05.02.2025 20

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New York AG warns hospitals against suspending gender-affirming care

New York’s Democratic Attorney General Letitia James warned hospitals Monday that prematurely pausing gender-affirming care for transgender minors...

04.02.2025 20

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White House celebrates reports of hospitals pausing gender-affirming care

The White House on Monday celebrated reports that some hospitals have stopped providing gender-affirming care to transgender youth in response to an...

03.02.2025 6

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McBride: Trump administration using transgender people 'as a pawn'

Rep. Sarah McBride (D-Del.), the first openly transgender person elected to Congress, on Friday condemned recent executive orders issued by President...

01.02.2025 40

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Federal workers told to remove pronouns from email signatures

Employees at federal agencies were instructed to remove pronouns from their email signatures by the end of the workday Friday, according to internal...

01.02.2025 70

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Judge blocks transfer of transgender woman to men's facility

A Massachusetts judge has temporarily blocked federal prison officials from transferring an incarcerated transgender woman to a men’s facility and...

31.01.2025 5

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Brooke Migdon

Trump issues executive order to ban gender-affirming care for minors 

President Trump on Tuesday signed a sweeping executive order meant to broadly restrict access to gender-affirming care for transgender children and...

29.01.2025 20

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Brooke Migdon

Five Takeaways on Trump’s order on transgender military service 

President Trump on Monday signed an executive order effectively barring transgender people from serving openly in the military, renewing a policy he...

29.01.2025 10

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Bessent makes history at Treasury as highest-ranking LGBTQ official

The Senate on Monday confirmed billionaire hedge fund manager and investor Scott Bessent as President Trump’s Treasury secretary, making him the...

28.01.2025 30

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Brooke Migdon

Trump to sign executive order banning transgender people from military service

President Trump is expected to sign an executive order Monday barring transgender people from serving openly in the military, part of a broader effort...

27.01.2025 30

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Brooke Migdon

Trump World descends on bishop who pleaded for 'mercy'

President Trump and Republicans this week slammed a plea for "mercy" by Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde during a Tuesday morning prayer service, calling it...

24.01.2025 100

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Bishop says she doesn't 'hate' Trump, refuses to apologize

Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde, who made waves this week for asking President Trump to “have mercy” on LGBTQ children and immigrants during a prayer...

23.01.2025 3

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Brooke Migdon

Calls to LGBTQ youth crisis hotline rose 33 percent on Inauguration Day: Trevor Project

The Trevor Project, a leading LGBTQ youth suicide prevention organization, said calls and text messages to its crisis intervention hotline had risen...

22.01.2025 4

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