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At least a dozen transgender service members discharged under Trump's military ban say they're still waiting for separation pay, in one case more than $300,000. Seven House Democrats want the Pentagon's numbers.
NYU Langone will pay $8.5 million and UPMC $950,000 under Justice Department deals that keep gender-affirming care closed to minors. What started as subpoenas has become a template, and it now runs through the settlement table more than the courtroom.
Three Trump-appointed judges vacated a class-wide injunction and ordered the class decertified. The opinion's opening line defines transgender women as 'male inmates who claim to be female.'
The justices ruled unanimously that HB 1254 is constitutional under the state constitution — a legally separate question from the one the US Supreme Court answered in Skrmetti last year.
The first national data from the Violence Experiences Survey, run by Tulane's Newcomb Institute with UC San Diego. The trans figures are the highest in the study — and the researchers argue the answer is prevention and community support, not policing.
Precious Arzuaga and Jennifer Quijano pleaded guilty and were sentenced last week in Ontario County, New York. Sam Nordquist was 24, a trans man from Oakdale, Minnesota, and his family has spent nineteen months insisting he be remembered for who he was.
The Board of Health regulatory action was formally withdrawn on July 30. The governor announced it seven weeks later, on a stage at Virginia PrideFest — and the gap between those two dates is part of the story.
The PAC is attacking five Democratic Senate candidates over trans rights — including several who had already moved to the right on the issue. AdImpact says trans content is unusually dominant in this spend.
Four families say the hospital still isn't providing the gender-affirming care a court ordered it to resume. They're asking for $50,000 a day in fines. The doctors testified behind closed doors.
Service members and medical providers describe a rush to identify and separate transgender personnel ahead of 15 September — the point at which an injunction and class certification in Talbott v. United States could finally take effect.
U.S. District Judge Cynthia Valenzuela dismissed the Justice Department's lawsuit against California's transgender sports policies, finding the state never got proper notice it risked its federal education funding.
A new KFF survey of nearly 26,000 U.S. adults finds LGBTQ+ people miss needed medical care at roughly double the rate of their non-LGBTQ+ peers — and pay for it in worsening health.
The Justice Department has petitioned the Supreme Court to lift an injunction protecting 29 transgender service members in Talbott v. United States, seeking discharges to begin before the case even goes to trial in 2027.
A Human Rights Campaign Foundation analysis of Census Bureau data puts the LGBTQ+ share of US adults at 12% — about 26.5 million people — well above Gallup's widely cited 9% figure, and researchers say the gap comes down to methodology, not a sudden shift in identification.
The largest Republican LGBTQ+ group is reversing an 11-year-old decision, narrowing its advocacy to sexual orientation only. Not everyone in the organization agrees.
James Dale lost at the Supreme Court in 2000 so Boy Scouts of America could keep him out for being gay. Twenty-six years later, he's using that same ruling to fight the Pentagon's pressure campaign against Scouting America's trans-inclusive policies.
A Massachusetts district court ruled the administration broke federal procedure when it tried to remove gender-affirming care from the ACA's essential health benefits — a decision with real financial stakes for transgender people buying marketplace insurance.
A new CMS rule bars federal Medicaid and CHIP matching funds for gender-affirming care for anyone under 18, effective October 13. States can still cover it — just not with federal money.
A federal class action, filed August 3 in Washington, challenges an OPM directive that stripped gender-affirming care coverage from health plans covering roughly 39,000 federal employees and their dependents.
A memo obtained by a longtime gay-rights plaintiff shows Scouting America agreed to eliminate LGBTQ+, women's, and scouts-of-color programming after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth threatened to pull Pentagon support.
By a 212-217 vote, the U.S. House rejected an amendment that would have codified the ban on transgender troops — with four Republicans crossing the aisle to kill it.
A federal appeals court ruled that Florida can't dictate which viewpoints on race, gender, and sexuality professors are allowed to endorse — calling the law a 'breathtaking' overreach on the First Amendment.
For the first time in 52 years, women are playing professional baseball in the US. Nearly a third of the inaugural roster is openly LGBTQ+, and that's not a footnote — it's the culture of the sport.
Within days of each other, Missouri enacted a law forcing incarcerated trans people off their medication and Illinois signed three bills shielding gender-affirming care. The American map keeps splitting.
In Z.A. v. Blanche, a federal judge issued a preliminary injunction barring the Justice Department from obtaining the identities and records of transgender minors treated at Stanford's children's hospital, calling the demand part of a 'bad-faith campaign' to intimidate providers.
In a 6–3 ruling on June 30, the Court upheld West Virginia and Idaho's bans on transgender girls in school sports. Kavanaugh wrote the majority. The reasoning matters as much as the result.
With the Supreme Court mostly siding with the administration, the real action on US transgender rights has moved to the lower courts — injunctions over prison healthcare and a class action over who gets to see trans kids' medical records.
Governor Matt Meyer signed SB 250, modernizing Delaware's parentage law around IVF and surrogacy — a quiet, concrete win for LGBTQ+ families at a moment when federal protections are going the other way.
After 17 straight years of US Embassy support, Sofia Pride 2026 went ahead with a slashed budget, fleeing corporate donors, and a 'March of the Family' blessed by the ruling party. The story of one Balkan Pride is a preview of what happens when American soft power exits the field.
After a federal grand jury subpoena ordered NYU Langone to hand over the names and health records of trans youth, families and civil rights groups went to court — and bought time until June 24.
A divided D.C. Circuit panel ruled on the first day of Pride Month that the Pentagon's ban on transgender service likely violates equal protection — and blocked the removal of the troops who sued.
New polling shows American support for same-sex marriage at its lowest point in years, while several Republican-led states swap Pride Month proclamations for 'Fidelity Month' and 'Nuclear Family Month.'
A D.C. federal court certified a class of roughly 2,000 transgender people in federal prisons and ordered the Bureau of Prisons to keep providing hormone therapy and accommodations while their challenge to a Trump executive order proceeds.
Maine's secretary of state struck a proposed school sports and bathroom ban from the November ballot after finding more than 12,000 invalid signatures — leaving the campaign a few hundred short of the threshold. Petitioners have ten days to appeal.
The Court heard arguments in West Virginia v. BPJ and Little v. Hecox back in January. Decisions are expected by late June — and they will reach far beyond two athletes.
As state legislative sessions wind down, two grim data points landed within a day of each other: 40% of trans teens now live under sports bans, and nearly one in five trans Americans live where the law dictates which restroom they may use.
After the Supreme Court struck down Colorado's 2019 conversion therapy ban, state lawmakers passed a new bill that targets the practice through a different legal door — and it now awaits the governor's signature.
Two days after the Supreme Court lifted the injunction blocking Trump's transgender military ban in Shilling v. Trump, the Pentagon has begun moving roughly 1,000 service members toward immediate separation under Hegseth's 30/60-day self-separation deadlines.
An ATF rule submitted in early May would require federal firearms forms to reflect 'biological sex' rather than legal gender — and citizens caught misstating it could face up to five years in prison. Civil rights groups are calling it a felony trap aimed at trans Americans.
Released May 5, the Holy See's synod study group report is the first official Vatican document to feature testimony from civilly married gay men and to describe reparative therapies as causing 'profound suffering.' It does not change doctrine — and that's the point.
Trans and nonbinary youth make up a disproportionate share of America's foster care system — and new federal and state policies are making an already dire situation worse.
The White House's 2027 budget request proposes a $166 million counterterrorism increase and a new NSPM-7 Joint Mission Center tasked with targeting 'extremism' on gender, race, and opposition to 'traditional American views.'
From Senegal's doubled penalties to Ghana's revived criminalization bill, a worsening climate for LGBTQ+ Africans has deep roots in US evangelical influence — now turbocharged by the Trump administration.
The Trump administration agreed to restore and permanently maintain the rainbow Pride flag at the Stonewall National Monument after a federal lawsuit challenged its removal.
What started as a quiet protest at the University of Virginia in 1996 is now the largest student-led action for LGBTQ+ school safety in America. Thirty years later, the need for it has only grown.
New research shows that religious exemption laws targeting LGBTQ+ people are linked to a 28% drop in first-time HIV testing. The health consequences of legal discrimination are becoming measurable.
Idaho's governor signed HB 752 into law on April 1, 2026 — a bill that makes it a misdemeanor, and then a felony, for trans people to use bathrooms that align with their gender identity.
