Virginia's Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance Program on Oct. 13 stopped covering gender-affirming care for transgender minors in response to a Trump-Vance administration directive. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services in August announced federal funding could no longer be used to pa
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During a speech at a rally for Democratic Congressional candidates in Virginia, former Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg mocked Republicans for trying to take credit for Democratic initiatives. Buttigieg highlighted the investments he made in Virginia while working for t...
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A new pro-Democrat ad skewering the Republican obsession with trans people is making waves across the internet. The 30-second ad from the Progress Action Fund (PAF) depicts a white-haired man in a suit sitting inside a bathroom stall. A young girl trying to use the bathroom then ...
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When Lauren Rowello’s wife came out to them as a trans woman, they "didn’t know where else to find anyone who’d understand.” Rowello and their wife both found their communities in the years that followed, but getting the right support to understand their own narratives was a chal...
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A Trump supporter said that she supported the administration's cuts to foreign aid because it meant that fewer people would get vaccinated. Comedian Jason Selvig talked to a woman wearing a red cap and a T-shirt with a giant picture of Donald Trump. He asked whether she supported...
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Lesbian federal Judge Ana C. Reyes received death threats today after President Donald Trump called her a "crazed lunatic" on social media earlier in the day. Reyes gained the Trump administration's ire by delaying the president's rushed attempt to remove numerous historic featur...
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A recirculated clip of lesbian pop star Renée Rapp has sparked a firestorm of renewed discourse on the sapphic internet. In the clip, pulled from an August 2025 interview with Alex Cooper on her megapopular podcast Call Her Daddy, the host asks Rapp to disclose “the most lesbian ...
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Trump fired Katie Zacharia as White House press secretary last Friday after barely five days on the job. But guess who's eager to fill the now-empty role? None other than disgraced, gay former US Rep. George Santos (R-NY). In an X post published last Friday evening, Santos wrote,...
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Gay Russian journalist Vadim Vaganov fled his home country in 2024, one year after its Supreme Court declared the so-called “international LGBT movement” an “extremist organization.” Russia's government now considers him, the media outlet he works for, Parni+, and other LGBTQ+ jo...
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Half the members of a high school girls’ cross-country team in Washington state walked off the field earlier this month rather than run with their transgender teammate. The protest took place amid debate over a proposed trans sports ban in the state and followed weeks of media at...
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This story originally appeared on The Advocate.An Iowa candidate for Congress is pushing back against anti-transgender attacks in new ads without treating LGBTQ+ people as obstacles to knock down.Christina Bohannan released a digital video of herself on a track in Iowa-branded at...
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An Arizona man is under arrest after stalking a Phoenix-area woman and threatening to drive a U-Haul truck into a Pride parade and open fire. Austin Jay Curtis, 32, was arrested October 12 at his residence in Gilbert, Arizona, one day after nearby Phoenix Pride took over downtown...
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This story originally appeared on The Advocate.Two school boards in Pennsylvania approved policies restricting transgender athletes from participating in sports that align with their gender identity.The Conestoga Valley School District board approved its policy Monday night in a ...
