Maine’s state senators shot down a series of anti-trans bills amid immense pressure from the federal government to enshrine transphobia into law.

Leading Off: Politically targeted attack comes hours before millions denounce Trump. A hospital succumbs to his threats. Iowa expands the bounds of discrimination. The week’s top story lines.

Assigned Media interviews former GenderPAC lawyer, Dana Priesing, discussing anti-trans lawsuits and trans women in women’s sports.

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.

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.

During an interview with Fox News, silenced pundit Riley Gaines drew parallels between trans athletes, Marxism, and mysterious dark money, which she knows all about as the co-chair of dark money-funded Nine PAC.

Leading Off: Disenfranchisement heads to the Senate. World Pride organizers are worried. And Trump loses in Maine. The top story lines as the week begins.

Leading Off: A multi-pronged, multi-state assault on young trans people. Trump keeps losing in court. Trans folks take pride in a banned flag in Utah. The top story lines as the week begins.

Maine House Rep Laurel Libby (R) has been censured, or prohibited from speaking on the floor of the House or voting, until she apologizes for posting pictures of and dead naming a trans minor in a viral Facebook post.

The good news is that a federal judge dismissed an anti-trans mom’s lawsuit against a school counselor who supported her trans son. The bad news is that the boy remains in homeschooling with his anti-trans mom.

Amber Lavigne of Damariscotta, ME believes a social worker provided a binder to her child. In the right wing press her unconfirmed allegations have been repeated as fact.

A parents’ rights group in Maine objects to the collection and dissemination of statistics about transgender youth.

Graphic depictions of tucking are embedded in a local story about a Maine hospital.