Leading Off: Trump ousts trans service members as his party mainstreams hate. Cass is called “unreliable” and unsupported by evidence. The top story lines as the week begins.

Conservatives are trying to get a transfemme fired for being transgender. The case highlights the increasing danger of the moral panic that insinuates trans people are inherently dangerous to children.

A Baptist pastor and small town mayor in Alabama was hounded into suicide by a right wing news site who discovered a secret online persona as a trans woman.

When we talk about the risks of suicide among trans youth, it’s important to use care with our words. Still, that doesn’t mean the far right press is helping when they bludgeon someone over a poor choice of phrase.