Leading Off: Intimidation of doctors and invasion of patient privacy are being fought in the courts. A radical right-wing assault on academic freedom is headed there as well. The week’s top story lines.

As trans healthcare is decimated no one is standing up for the integrity of the scientific process for these patients.

The original release did not include the names of the authors, who include conservative and anti-trans activists.

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

Kennedy, the Secretary of Health and Human Services, is promoting misinformation. Again. Uh, again… again again. Again.

Leading Off: A government report that reads like a long anti-trans opinion piece. Trump just keeps losing in Maine. The top story lines as the week begins.

The shift, which took place under pressure from the New York Times, represents a crumbling of one of the last bulwarks of protection for the tiny number of families whose children need such care.