Turns out the extravagantly wealthy mean girl scares easily.

Synth pioneer Wendy Carlos has given us eighteen albums, a massive website of personal writings and archival recordings, and a generation of trans synthesizer enthusiasts in her wake. For Halloween, we’re taking a look at her writings, her work, and the queer musicians she’s influenced.

A 2021 paper links experiencing deadnaming and misgendering with significantly poorer health.

Leading Off: Marriage equality faces a direct challenge in the U.S. Supreme Court, while a Texas judge opens the door to marriage discrimination. The administration pursues new attacks on trans care and queer people. The week's top story lines.

Organizers spanning generations converged to demand the LGBTQ+ community health center reinstate gender-affirming care for patients under 19.

Claiming Wikipedia is full of propaganda, Elon Musk has released his own online encyclopedia powered by Grok, the Twitter AI. Unfortunately, like everything made using AI, it’s a huge steaming pile of hot garbage.

Lia Smith, a 21-year-old trans student-athlete in Vermont, took her own life last week. Her friends, family and community mourn, and remember her as a bright young woman who spoke on behalf of her community.

Rikleen spoke to Assigned Media about his candidacy challenging Massachusetts Senator Ed Markey in 2026.

Leading Off: A landslide victory for Ireland’s leftist presidential candidate, the Greens’ dramatic gains in the U.K., and pushback to Starmer’s repressive policies put the lie to big media myths that human rights are a lost cause.

The latest in a string of compromised institutions, University of Virginia is has agreed to the demands of the terrorists occupying the White House.

Why do we rely on doctors to address our basic medical needs?

Appellate court judges don’t seem particularly impressed by the Department of Defense’s attempts to justify the trans military ban.

The surveys, and the political stances pundits build from them, lack essential context on how firmly Americans hold their beliefs and how knowledgeable they are.

A powerful speech by the Massachusetts senator reflected the wide embrace of equal rights for all at No Kings Day Rallies, and the determination nationwide to oppose Trump’s attacks on American values.

After being denied entry into a competition in a state with antidiscrimination laws that should protect her, a trans fencer is suing USA Fencing and the US Olympic and Paralympic Committee.

A trans woman’s account of life in a men’s prison in Georgia.

There’s been a troublesome spate of weirdos dropping trou at school board meetings to own trans people… somehow.

Honoring a lifetime of Black trans activism.

Our community remembers Charlie Kirk as the vicious, hateful, divisive, violence monger he was.

Leading Off: Assigned Media interviews trans activist Bella Bautista. Also, in this week’s news, a UK woman is jailed for not disclosing that she was trans, and the BBC cuts staff training about transgender people. Our top stories starting out the week in trans news.