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.

Spain’s Socialist Parliamentary Group submitted a bill last month that would elevate the punishment for practicing conversion therapy, and it was approved and sent to the senate just last week.

On July 3, 1992, the body of trans activist Marsha P. Johnson was found floating in the Hudson. Thirty-three years later, the trans community still finds itself at the end of a gun.

Despite its record of voting Democratic, the state has seen a harsh, partisan turn that threatens trans care and rights.

Leading Off: Will Democrats have the spine to stop them? A court ruling that enables religious discrimination. Hungarians defy a dictator. The week’s top story lines.

Alex Byrne’s ideological commitments were clear long before he was tapped by Trump to claim gender-affirming care is bad medicine.

Another moment in the unfolding saga of California vs. Trump, in which the Department of Education wrongly says California violated Title IX and must start discriminating against trans girls soon or face their wrath.

Former New Republic editor Andrew Sullivan published an opinion piece blaming trans people for attacks on the trans community.

Senator Richard Blumenthal presents himself as a strong LGTBQ+ ally in his support for The Equality Act… but when it comes to online spaces for young queer kids, is he walking the walk, or just talking the talk?

Breonna McCree, a leader of the world’s first Transgender District, describes painful setbacks and the path to defeating bigotry. 

Meanwhile, other mainstream media newsrooms treated the U.S. v. Skrmetti case as an opportunity to center coverage around the expected result.

At least three major providers have ceased to offer surgery for patients under 19. Youth and adults alike fear for the future under Trump.