Leading Off: The Department of Justice toys with the idea of banning trans Americans from owning guns. The NRA comes to an unexpected defense of the trans community. Texas successfully passes a bathroom ban. Our top stories starting out the week in trans news.

Leading Off: The right wing is using the transgender identity of the shooter to fuel hatred towards the entire trans community. The Texas house passes a bathroom ban with massive penalties. And two North Virginia school systems fight back against Trump’s Department of Education. Our top stories starting out the week in trans news.

Leading Off this week, the state of Texas is seeking a statewide ban on trans people using appropriate bathrooms for their gender, and Gender Liberation Movement showed up to protest the infringement on trans people’s privacy and dignity. Also, a new attempt to ban gender-affirming care for youth in Alaska.

Leading Off: GLAAD releases a fact check overview of anti-trans ideas, Texas continues its efforts to ban trans people from the correct bathrooms, and youth gender clinics close across the nation. Our top story lines to start the week.

Leading Off: Adult swimming nonprofit targeted for including trans women in events. Canadian judge halts deportation citing concerns over conditions of LGBTQ+ community in the US. And Assigned Media needs your support. Our top story lines to start the week.

A bigoted measure “defining sex” raises confusion and sows fear. That’s the point.

Hard-line conservatives who promoted book and bathroom bans suffered big losses in school board races.

After a trans woman won big at a swimming competition, Texas AG Ken Paxton quickly announced his plans to try and get the event hosts in legal trouble.

Trans people, families and allies are rallying across the country on Monday, Trans Day of Visibility, and over the weekend as well. Show up and stand up! It’s never been more important.

Instead of tackling real issues, the governor and attorney general see political gain in scapegoating trans people. Legal fine points don’t matter.

The Texas attorney general’s effort to undermine court-ordered gender changes is not legally binding.

Pushback in two hotbeds of anti-trans legislation. Trump deals more cruelty and confusion for trans veterans. The top story lines as the week begins.

A measure pending in the state Senate seeks to enshrine “exclusion, discrimination” into law.

As legislation targeting the trans community increases, it is important to ground ourselves in the details of the laws that impact us.

Continuing his full-tilt anti-trans hate campaign, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has now filed suit against the NCAA for… allowing trans players? Even though they barely do?

After previously passing legislation offering “bounties” on trans people using bathrooms not matching their gender assigned at birth, Odessa deems the ordinance unenforceable.

Odessa, Texas enacts a draconian new law targeting transgender people.

Last week, Odessa’s city council passed an ordinance barring trans people from the correct bathrooms and allowing anybody to sue suspected violators of this ban. This is, shockingly, a really terrible idea!

A memo distributed internally at the Texas Department of Public safety now disallows Texans from using court orders or amended birth certificates to have the gender marker on their license changed. The DPS says the Attorney General’s office is to blame, and what’s more, Attorney General Ken Paxton seems dead set on creating a list of trans Texans again… again. Again.

The government alleges Haim sought the re-activation of his lapsed access to healthcare records at a hospital he no longer worked at for the purposes of leaking health records to a conservative activist.