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.

Gavin Newsom has spent a lot of time declaring himself the greatest hero of the queer community to ever live, but his words and actions rarely seem to align these days.

A fringe group with no expertise pushes the field of psychiatry to regress to a pre-scientific, prejudice-soaked view of trans people. It coincides with the far-right political agenda.

Conversion therapy is not only ineffective at its purported goal, but also only serves to amplify psychological distress.

Subpoenas filed by the Justice Department are demanding far more information from healthcare providers than they’re entitled to, but some are fighting back.

Billie Jean Sweeney’s grandmother left Ireland in search of a better life. Now Sweeney’s pinning her hopes for safety on a reverse trip.

Assigned Media interviews transmasc feminist author Jude Doyle.

Leading Off: The U.S. Supreme Court prepares to see a case on conversion therapy bans tomorrow, campaigning on an anti-trans platform is notably unpopular, and some states push to ease restrictions on transgender Americans updating their documents. Our top stories starting out the week in trans news.

Elon Musk and Chaya Raichik are teaming up to freak out about the existence of trans folks and discrimination against… white people?

Conservatives have proposed taking the right to bear arms from trans Americans, here is what trans gun owners have to say.

In 1992, a millionaire playboy died in Mexico in the ruins of his Love Joy Palace Ashram. Almost thirty years prior, he handed Dr. Harry Benjamin a blank check and set the stage for trans healthcare as we know it today.

Eighteen state Attorneys General unite to stand up in defense of trans Americans, in opposition to a Federal Trade Commission investigation into trans healthcare.

Failing to reach an agreement to temporarily fund the US government, congress members have allowed the government to shutdown for now. Here’s what that means for our community.

A 2024 study takes a look at the link between anti-trans beliefs and desires for authoritarianism.

Leading Off: Genspect calls to pathologize transgender identities, trans Americans seek asylum abroad, and the Department of Education withholds funds from schools in blue cities. Our top stories starting out the week in trans news.

Writing for The Economist last week, anti-trans journalist Jesse Singal has once again poorly interpreted a study that represents a huge win for trans healthcare as, somehow, troubling news.

To be both undocumented and queer in America is dangerous. And in this political climate, that danger is only growing.

Only days after declaring he feels terrible for all the trans people who have been hurt by some unknowable entity that’s definitely not him, Wes Streeting declares he’d like to segregate trans people.

It’s gonna be a remembrance to remember with your pals at Assigned Media.

Leading Off: The FBI begins developing tools to track “trans extremists,” North American schools enforce anti-trans policies, a Louisiana nonprofit expands access to HRT. Our top stories starting out the week in trans news.