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Surviving the Holidays as an Estranged Person
You may struggle over the holidays if you’re estranged from your family, but you are not alone.
FDA Threatens Companies Selling Binders
The FDA sent twelve businesses threatening letters on Tuesday, demanding that they register their chest binders as medical devices with the FDA.
Authoritarian Surge Animates Attacks on Trans Americans
The right-wing campaign to create an autocratic state is also endangering long-held freedoms for all Americans, pushing U.S. democracy to the precipice. Trans people, its earliest targets, are among the most vulnerable.
Therapists Push Back on Anti-Trans Continuing Education
Assigned Media investigates as the anti-trans organization Therapy First has begun offering continuing education to medical professionals.
The Neglected Front in RFK Jr.’s War on Science
As trans healthcare is decimated no one is standing up for the integrity of the scientific process for these patients.
TWIBS: Transition, You Coward!
The Department of Health and Human Services is trying to genocide trans children, and Jim O’Neill needs to come out of the closet.
Library Board Dissolved Over One Trans Book
Two months after a library board of trustees voted to keep one book featuring a transgender boy, out of 20,000 books in the library’s catalogue, the board was dissolved without any replacement.
MOBILE VERSION: The Ten Best (and Five Worst) Pieces of Trans Journalism of 2025
A definitive ranking of trans journalism in 2025.
The Ten Best (and Five Worst) Pieces of Trans Journalism of 2025
A definitive ranking of trans journalism in 2025.
Trans Kids Attacked on Health Care and Freedom of Association
Leading Off: A Bay area provider ends care for minors and the UK group GirlGuiding promotes bigotry against both girls and boys. Top story lines as the week begins.
TWIBS: Department of Justice Interferes in Virginia Public School Case
A case of school bullying has been transformed into a freedom of religion case that demands the Justice Department’s attention, as if by magic!
This HIV Expert Refused To Censor Data on Trans Patients, Then Quit the CDC
John Weiser, a doctor and researcher, has treated people with HIV since the beginning of the AIDS epidemic in the 1980s.
What Mama Major Taught Us
Community members reflect on the legacy of Miss Major Griffin-Gracy and the quest for Black trans liberation.
GA Cop Guilty of Transphobia… So What?
A Georgia cop has been found guilty of discrimination against a trans woman, but does that actually mean anything?
A Clippings Scrapbook: Peta Church, Therese Frare, the Shot that Defined the AIDS Crisis, and the Two Spirit Healer Who Let the World In
In November 1990, LIFE Magazine ran a now-legendary photograph of AIDS activist David Kirby’s last moments. Just out of frame was another eventual victim of AIDS, and the reason Therese was in the room at all; Peta, a two-spirit caretaker with their own story to tell.
Can a Group Allied With the Right Defend the 1st Amendment for All?
FIRE, a product of the “academic freedom” campaign, wants to protect free speech for everyone. Yet its stances show deference to religious views and a persistent anti-queer strain.
Trump Pushes State-Sponsored Rape of Incarcerated Queer People
Leading Off: His latest lawless move defies an act adopted unanimously by Congress two decades ago. Anti-trans riders stripped from military spending bill. The week’s top story lines.
TWIBS: Girlguiding and Women’s Institute Betray Trans Girls and Women
As a result of the UK Supreme Court’s verdict on trans women’s lack of legal protection, youth scout organization Girlguiding has banned trans girls from joining. The Women’s Institute quickly followed suit.
To Survive in Prison, Desperate LGBTQ Inmates Turn to Office Work
How America’s short-staffed prisons came to rely on the administrative skills of incarcerated queers.
Jenny Watson Feuds With LGB Alliance
L Community founder and former LGB Alliance darling has run afoul of the anti-trans activist organization for, she alleges, reporting sexual misconduct.

