BREAKING: The U.S. Department of Justice announced on Friday that it reached an “agreement” with Mount Sinai Health System in which it will “cease providing” gender-affirming medical care to minors and dedicate $2 million to providing care to those “suffering harmful consequences” of such care.

21 states, led by Attorney General Bonta, are suing the federal government to block a medicaid ban for those under 19 from taking effect. The new rule is slated to go into effect in six weeks. They raise novel legal issues, and have been successful before. Subscribe to support our journalism.

21 States Sue Federal Government To Block Anti-Trans Under-19 Medicaid Ban

The rule is slated to go into effect in six weeks.

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Federal government sues Kansas school district, accusing it of secretly transitioning children | via @crazeywriter.bsky.social #ksleg

Federal government sues Kansas school district, accusing it of secretly transitioning children • Kansas Reflector

The federal government accused the Kansas City, Kansas, public school district of secretly transitioning children’s gender identity at school without their parents’ knowledge or consent in a lawsuit f...

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I wrote about the garbage “study” HHS just released, attempting to link support for trans people and left-wing political violence, a kind of remixed Stephen Miller screed with some additional citations:

Trump’s Vile Campaign to Link Trans People and Political Violence

A bogus new HHS report argues that support for transgender rights pushes people toward political violence. It’s just the latest chilling installment in a larger project of bigoted propaganda.

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BREAKING: 9 activists arrested protesting gender affirming care reductions in MA More here: assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...

BREAKING: 9 Activists Arrested After Demanding MA AG Restore Trans Youth Care - Assigned Media

In Boston, Massachusetts this afternon a group of 40 protesters associated with Protect Trans Futures ratcheted up pressure on the Attorney General’s office to take action against providers who have c...

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Trans Leader Sounds Alarm About “Near Complete Exodus” of Philanthropy From Movement www.them.us/news/tra... #transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA

Trans Leader Sounds Alarm About “Near Complete Exodus” of Philanthropy From Movement

​Shelby Chestnut, the executive director of the Transgender Law Center, says that the “dollars barely trickle in.”

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For me, the biggest takeaway from Sophie Cunningham’s hard launch into the right-wing culture wars is how *lucrative* bigotry is now. There’s an entire conservative media ecosystem that will turn anyone willing to make transphobia their personal brand into a well-compensated star.

Sophie Cunningham and the cynical economics of the anti-trans athlete

The conservative media machine is turning WNBA athletes into well-compensated culture-war assets.

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1. Have you ever wanted to know the history behind trans people's rights? Well, I made a timeline for it! Introducing Transitics' Timeline of Gender Change Laws, the first ever definitive resource on the subject! Check it out and read the accompanying report here:

Trans People’s Identities Have Been Legally Recognized for Over 70 Years. Why Has That History Been Forgotten?

Trans people’s right to legal gender recognition is much older than we realize—older than abortion rights, Alaska’s statehood, and the Civil Rights Act. That history just became common knowledge.

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So is the sheer dissonance of being the central fixation of right-wing propaganda campaigns while still being treated as a fringe or niche issue by putative "allies" eroding anyone else's sanity to a fucking nub Or just me

I can't imagine pouring resources into this for no reason.

Danielle Froom 🏳️‍🌈@danifroom.bsky.social · last wk.

The Trump regime's HHS and Office of Population Affairs have released another anti-trans report claiming that trans people are violent, authoritarian, anti-democratic, and extremist. This is a massive escalation in state propaganda and nothing but a pretense for horrors to come.

Dolly Parton’s chauffeur and assistant of 30+ years was a trans man she supported and loved www.advocate.com/new... #transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA

Dolly Parton’s chauffeur and assistant of 30+ years was a trans man she supported and loved

​Parton repeatedly thanked Jason Pirro — whose employment was widely celebrated by trans newsletters — throughout her career.

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In all the talk of trans women & basketball, I wanted to share this profile I wrote of the Basketdolls, an all-transfemme pickup basketball league in Brooklyn. I would love to see the Liberty shout them out or donate to them in some way. This story was selected for The Year’s Best Sportswriting 2025

Let’s Hear It for the Dolls: A Day Shooting Hoops With Brooklyn’s Trans Basketball League

“You can play hard and have fun without the fear that you’re going to have to deal with pushback from someone.”

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Texas’s drag ban was found to be unconstitutional this morning and one of the plaintiffs who brought the suit was an Austin-based drag queen who often impersonates Dolly Dolly was named in the final judgement itself and after hearing about the lawsuit, she sent that drag queen a signed guitar

I think it would be a really interesting project to do a bunch of stories about those who have left. Many like Art are probably good writers!

Art Stardust@artstardust.bsky.social · 2w ago

In this post I explain what was wrong with trying to get by in the US as a trans, disabled, and poor person, and what my partner and I did to survive. www.artstardust.com/i-fled-the-u...

Trump Says Trans Healthcare Is Being Reversed “At My Order” www.transunitedfund.... #transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA

Trump Says Trans Healthcare Is Being Reversed “At My Order”

Hospitals are already retreating from gender-affirming care as the administration cuts funding, pressures providers, and pushes lawful treatment out of reach for trans patients.

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Tbh the fact that everything everywhere is anti-trans propaganda all the time is as exhausting as it is frightening.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2w ago

Linda McMahon: "After the Biden administration allowed schools to secretly transition students without parents' knowledge, President Trump is defending parental rights like never before"

Actions as simple as asking for and affirming a student’s name and pronouns can make trans students feel substantially safer and more likely to succeed in the classroom, a new report shows.

Higher grades and belonging: Trans students thrive when their teachers support them

Actions as simple as asking for and affirming a student’s name and pronouns can make trans students feel substantially safer and more likely to succeed in the classroom, a new report shows.

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We're being told that if we sacrifice the rights of some people, then the rest of us get to keep our rights. We all know that's some BS.

Texas Secretly Started Torturing Trans Prisoners By Forcibly Detransitioning Them ‘a Few Weeks Ago’ www.transiticsnews.c... #transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA

Texas Secretly Started Torturing Trans Prisoners By Forcibly Detransitioning Them ‘a Few Weeks Ago’

Transitics has uncovered that Texas quietly rescinded its policy allowing trans prisoners to access gender-affirming care. Over 1,100 trans people are at risk of facing a forced detransition.

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This is a really interesting article on the peace process in Colombia. It is dense but may offer some insights into our own future in the US.

Lawfare@lawfaremedia.org · 2w ago

On Aug. 7, Abelardo de la Espriella was sworn in as Colombia’s president after a campaign of promising to unravel transitional justice. Isabel Rowan Scarpino explains how the attacks on transitional justice could impact peace prospects with active armed groups in the current criminal landscape.

60 yrs ago, sex workers, drag queens and street youth held a landmark riot against police in SF's Tenderloin—the world's 1st Trans District now that space is held by Geo Group. trans people are still arrested at SF Pride—over tagging Flock cams. the trans fight against police in '66 and today:

The fight to protect a trans landmark in California from ICE’s biggest contractor

Compton’s Cafe is one of the earliest examples of LGBTQ+ resistance. Today, a prison company occupies the site

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1. Good news: a federal court has restored gender-affirming care access for many trans adults! The HHS rule, which cut coverage for trans adults on ACA plans, has been permanently struck down by George H.W. Bush appointee Nathaniel Gorton, who blasted the Trump administration's illegal actions.

Federal Court Restores Access to Gender-Affirming Care for Many Trans Adults in Massive Win

In a significant victory, George H.W. Bush appointee Nathaniel Gorton permanently struck down a Trump administration rule that cut coverage for many trans Americans on ACA plans.

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1. Barred from housing them with men, the Trump administration is now moving trans women to a segregated prison unit designed to make them suffer. The women call it ‘solitary-lite,’ where they are forced to shower in front of male guards, prevented from going outside, and kept from medical care...

Barred From Housing Them With Men, the Trump Administration is Now Moving Trans Women to a Segregated Prison Unit Designed to Make Them Suffer

A federal court refused to block the Trump administration from moving trans women into ‘solitary-lite,’ forcing them to shower in front of male guards and keeping them from medical care.

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This is not good.

s. baum@transvestigations.bsky.social · 2w ago

I have a dire update on this story. I have reason to believe my source, Aurora Rush, was taken by the federal government as a political prisoner. www.erininthemorning.com/p/trans-coup...

This is an interesting story beyond the the potential suppression. Personally because I've been doing genealogy as a lost Canadian and it brought history to life. But also how Arkansas forbid free Blacks - they had to leave! Did they have time or was it like KS where the next day they are illegal?

Arkansas Times@arktimes.bsky.social · 3w ago

“They immediately said, ‘Do not mention this to anyone.’ They said to keep researching, but don’t say anything about it because they might be watching,“ researcher Tessa Wahlquist said. “They” were members of the Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders administration.

Today on Assigned Media we've got an interview with trans author and radio host Ellie Krug, who spent 3 days in Idaho, speaking and listening to trans people about their struggle in one of the worst states for trans rights. assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...

Ellie Krug Planned a Road Trip to One of the Worst States for Trans People - Assigned Media

“The suffering was palpable immediately,” she told Assigned Media

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Fascinating!

Mississippi Free Press@mississippifreepress.org · 3w ago

OPINION: "I am a public health water microbiologist who collects sewage water & tests it for evidence of harmful pathogens, such as cyclospora. The first time I studied cyclospora was in the first outbreak ever documented in the U.S., a small, 45-case outbreak in Florida in 1995," Joan Rose writes.

A dispute over who should be allowed inside a women's-only spa where clients are nude has moved from Lynnwood to the U.S. Supreme Court, where a petition was filed today asking the justices to weigh in. archive.ph/ukMdB#sel... #transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA

As I've said before, the Trumpists are *hunting* trans kids. The media is silent. The Democrats are silent. And someday they'll all claim they fought against this. www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/08/anti...

Anti-trans news site outs Olympic skater's trans sibling - LGBTQ Nation

Women's gold medalist Alysa Liu has a sister competing in track and field in the San Francisco Bay Area.

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they're making hit lists of children. they're making hit lists of children. they're making hit lists of children. they're making hit lists of children. they're making hit lists of children. they're making hit lists of children. they're making hit lists of children.

Mark Grimshaw@markgrimshawtism.bsky.social · 3w ago

This post just popped up on my Facebook from a page with tens of thousands of followers. Behind the black box are the names of 10 children the OP is alleging to be trans. The post also include photos of all 10 children, and the name of the schools they attend. They’re now doxxing minors.