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.

Gays Against Groomers requests an honorary flag from a Colorado Government program and falsely claims it was personally granted by Governor Jared Polis.

Crusading conservative parents are making national news for forcing a trans girl to change rooms away from their cisgender daughter.

Jack Phillips will make a pink cake with blue frosting, but not for a transgender person.

Circumstantial evidence suggests the Colorado Springs murderer is not, in fact, nonbinary.

Prosecutors are moving ahead with hate crimes for the 22-year-old accused of murdering 5 and people in an LGBTQ+ nightclub in Colorado shortly before Thanksgiving.

Some on the right are barely masking their support for the slaughter of innocents at Club Q. The rest deny there’s any problem with their extreme rhetoric at all.

Lawyers for Anderson Lee Aldrich have stated that the shooter, who left 5 dead in Club Q earlier this week, is nonbinary. The anti-trans propaganda machine has already declared the shooting cannot be a hate crime. Was this the killer’s intent?

The anti-trans moral panic has a body count, but you’d never know it if you confine yourself to right wing outlets.

While responsibility for the murders falls only on the murderer, the responsibility for the terror trans people are feeling is not because of him alone. The responsibility for that climate falls on the GOP, and the right wing media.