After yet another Supreme Court intervention to curtail the rights of trans youth, a California judge insists trans kids who are likely to be abused should be outed to their parents.

Leading Off: Idaho and Tennessee move forward with harsh anti-trans bills and other states follow, the IOC bans transgender athletes. The top story lines as we start off the week.

Trump’s Department of Education threatens yet another school for being normal about trans people.

An effort to pass legislation for a museum dedicated to women’s history in America, which has languished in congress for six years, has been dealt another blow by Republicans’ last minute anti-trans additions.

A nasty piece of legislation that failed to pass last year has been reborn, nastier than before, and the president really wants it to pass.

Leading Off: The Iowa and New Hampshire Houses pass some of the most aggressive anti-trans policies yet seen in the US.

A trans Kansas resident recently changed her name but not her gender marker on her license, fearing what Kansas may do if she did. The Kansas DMV still flagged her ID.

Aly Gibbs screams into the void at the Kansas state legislature, which is evil and must be dismantled brick by brick, for stealing trans people’s licenses.

“I wish I could convey to them that the people they’re hurting are real human beings,” says Juniper, 24, of Witchita Kansas.

A coalition of state AGs have come together to challenge the worst assaults of the Trump regime on trans people’s equal rights.

The right-wing campaign to create an autocratic state is also endangering long-held freedoms for all Americans, pushing U.S. democracy to the precipice. Trans people, its earliest targets, are among the most vulnerable.

Leading Off: A Bay area provider ends care for minors and the UK group GirlGuiding promotes bigotry against both girls and boys. Top story lines as the week begins.

A new profile on the prolific anti-trans activist by Mother Jones sheds light on Gaines’ obsession.

An Immediate Need to Impose Bigotry: Rogue Court Endorses Trump’s Ideology

A 2025 paper studies implicit bias and its link with legal discourse.

Despite its record of voting Democratic, the state has seen a harsh, partisan turn that threatens trans care and rights.

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.

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

Conservative media, legal, political, and business leaders came together in a breathtaking assault on human rights.