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: 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.

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: The Labour-led government codifies bigotry, triggering a “human rights disaster.” Trans people win big in a U.S. passport case. The top story lines as the week begins.

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

An Ohio senate bill for access to college credits gets a transgender bathroom ban stapled to it last minute.

Fear, hurt, confusion are the feelings of the month at Utah public schools where trans students are now forced to use the wrong bathrooms or run afoul of the law.

In 2024, a resurgence of bathroom bans is testing how far the GOP’s targeting of the trans community will go.

A trans woman was acquitted of public indecency charges for changing in a women’s locker room, but the persecution of trans people is only getting started in OH.