Iowa’s state legislature has passed a bill disallowing municipal protections for marginalized Iowans, who have been abundantly clear about who they want to protect.

As the world closes in on trans people and doors close around us, it is more important than ever to stay mentally healthy. Therapist and writer Veronica Esposito brings you the first part of a three part series on resilience and how to build and manage it.

An analysis of its coverage reveals a pattern of misrepresentations, deceptions, distortions, the exclusion of trans voices, and the endorsement of contempt.

A nasty piece of legislation that failed to pass last year has been reborn, nastier than before, and the president really wants it to pass.

As the representation of trans people in media wanes, there is one medium where trans people are still able to exist and tell their stories in spite of mainstream suppression: comics.

In the midst of national attacks on trans people, the Chicago Teachers’ Union hosted a screening of the documentary Heightened Scrutiny and gave local trans speakers an opportunity to speak.

Leading Off: The Iowa and New Hampshire Houses pass some of the most aggressive anti-trans policies yet seen in the US.

The UK girls scouting organization has put together a task force to figure out how they can support trans girls! Without… you know… letting them back in, or anything.

Following the enactment of cruel anti-trans policies, a 2026 review looks at the impacts of these policies on trans students. Journal Club dives into this review to see the real harms of these kinds of policies.

The Supreme Court issued an unsigned “emergency” intervention in a California court case about whether or not school districts should be allowed to force educators to out trans kids to their parents.

The 1940s were not a good time to be gay, and an even less stellar time to be trans. But we were there; on variety show stages, on the front lines, and strapped into the cockpit of the bombers, trans folk like us helped eradicate the Nazi menace...only to be left behind by our allies at the end.

A trans Kansas resident recently changed her name but not her gender marker on her license, fearing what Kansas may do if she did. The Kansas DMV still flagged her ID.

The story of Sage Blair is complicated and uncertain, but its inclusion in Trump’s SOTU can only mean one thing. Plus, the ACLU is suing Kansas over a law that invalidates trans people’s IDs and licenses.

For Black History Month, celebrating a queer and trans, Black and Latinx tradition.

Aly Gibbs screams into the void at the Kansas state legislature, which is evil and must be dismantled brick by brick, for stealing trans people’s licenses.

A new group reliant on hate and falsehood claims to represent “liberals” and “Democrats.” Its own words put the lie to its claims.

“I wish I could convey to them that the people they’re hurting are real human beings,” says Juniper, 24, of Witchita Kansas.

The Riley Gaines Act, currently introduced to the House of Representatives, would encourage cisgender athletes to sue organizations that allow transgender athletes to compete.

“There are no new research findings and the MHRA hasn’t presented any new evidence,” Cass told the Observer, in response to the shut down of the clinical trial she proposed.

Leading Off: A wave of clinic closures creep towards the erosion of adult transition care in the US, with transmasculine underwear also threatened with restrictions as trans people are targeted in all areas of life.