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.

Virginia’s Loudoun County Public Schools punished three students for sexually harassing a transgender student, and generated a whole bunch of local controversy by telling the Education Department they wouldn’t capitulate to their bigoted demands.

Leading Off: The Department of Education uses funding cuts to try to enforce more bathroom bans. The U.S. Air Force denies trans troops hearings to stay in the service. And a trans athlete sues the NCAA. Our top stories starting out the week in trans news.

The conservative opinion writer can smoothly present misinformation on trans youth, but falls apart under questioning by informed audience members.

The suit alleges a school policy which kept information about a student’s gender private led to the student running away from home and experiencing horrific sexual abuse.

The false story of a sexual assault in a bathroom in a Loudon, VA school was one of the early drivers of the anti-trans panic that has gripped the right.

The policies, which seek to make life more difficult for trans youth even when fully supported by their families, ask school personnel to determine whether a nickname is common before allowing it.

A teen’s grandmother believes the child would have avoided trauma if the school had informed her the child had begun to identify as a trans boy.

The policies of a VA legislator went viral Friday afternoon after FOX News and other right wing outlets accused her of wanting to jail parents who did not provide gender affirming-care to their trans children. The real story is more complicated.

State Senator Ruff accuses parents of trans youth of mutilation and of hating their own children.