Leading Off: GLAAD releases a fact check overview of anti-trans ideas, Texas continues its efforts to ban trans people from the correct bathrooms, and youth gender clinics close across the nation. Our top story lines to start the week.

French President Emmanuel Macron’s wife Brigitte has filed suit against conservative internet yammerer Candace Owens as a result of Owens’ year-long harassment campaign.

An adult cartoon that reveled in the anti-woke backlash reckons with its impact.

A pipeline of pseudoscience funded by powerful right-wing hate groups has undermined medical truths with the help of big media.

The D.C. area hospital is the latest to submit to Trump’s desire to abolish gender-affirming care in America.

Assigned Media speaks with Massachusetts Representative candidate Bethany Andres-Beck.

Leading Off: Adult swimming nonprofit targeted for including trans women in events. Canadian judge halts deportation citing concerns over conditions of LGBTQ+ community in the US. And Assigned Media needs your support. Our top story lines to start the week.

Despite her insistence that she doesn’t want to be an activist or even talk about “trans issues,” conservative economics journalist Jessica Riedl has found herself at the center of a harassment campaign for merely existing.

The proposed change includes the information that there are no known beneficial effects.

The Department of Education is moving ahead with plans to make it vastly more difficult for pro-trans Americans to receive loan forgiveness. Assuming the department continues existing at all.

In the wake of the devastating Supreme Court decision in US v Skrmetti, what are the further legal ramifications for other cases centered around the rights of transgender people?

Leading Off: The DOJ launches investigations into gender-affirming care providers. ICE erases the numbers of transgender people in custody. And the EOCC resumes processing discrimination complaints by trans workers. The top story lines as the week begins.

Last year, activist James Lantz, known online as Angry Gay Grandpa, was arrested for a demonstration in PA. Now, they want to take thousands of dollars from a man with terminal cancer for the sin of… caring about trans kids?

A peaceful march on June 27th showed the deep support for trans rights that still exists in much of America.A peaceful march shows the deep support for trans rights that still exists in much of America.

In Skrmetti, the court’s legal logic hinges upon a medical disorder, which has never been proven to exist— an “open secret” that applies to all psychiatric diagnoses.

Trans lawyers criticize both Roberts’ opinion and the ACLU’s strategy in the case that allowed state laws to discriminate against trans youth in healthcare.

Leading Off: Get your passport while you can. Plus, the Supreme Court will rule on trans sports bans and increasing legal activism targets the trans community in the U.K. The top storylines this week.

Trans girls belong in sports and everywhere else. And, for a time, they were.

The self-identified TERF who brought you “crappy cis lesbian dating app” continues to be unable to bring you “crappy cis lesbian bar.”

A 2025 study takes the time to interview and speak with trans children to better understand the scope of the impacts of restrictions on gender affirming care.