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Joanna Whaley Survived 15 Years of Conversion Therapy. Michigan Democrats Just Nominated Her for the Legislature.
A megachurch, a ballot challenge, and 56 percent.
Caitlin Clark Declined to Attack Trans Athletes. Matt Walsh Called Her “the Biggest Coward in the History of Sports.”
A profile, a pile-on, and a loyalty oath.
The Times Said Nothing Changed. 3,242 Articles Disagree.
The paper of record kept saying its trans coverage hadn’t shifted. A lawyer built the instrument that could check.
Four House Republicans Voted Against Writing the Trans Military Ban Into Law
The House rejected Lauren Boebert’s amendment to carve the trans troop ban into statute, 212–217, with four Republicans crossing over. The ban is still in effect, and the same night the House passed t
Pete Hegseth Wants to Give Soldiers the Same Hormone His Administration Calls “Mutilation”
The Pentagon is now screening troops for low testosterone and prescribing the exact medication the administration outlawed for transgender people.
MOVIE REVIEW: In the Odyssey, Christopher Nolan Brings It All.
A man. A film. A failed boycott. A change in the wind.
MOVIE REVIEW: “Again Again” Buries a Transition Story Inside a Time Loop
A queer time-loop romance in an RV — really a film about the first lonely years of becoming yourself, and the people who don’t update with you.
The Appetite
Anti-trans obsessives won at the Supreme Court, they emptied the clinics, and their audience felt nothing. Then one trans actor promoted a movie.
Trump’s Health Department Just Abandoned Its Biggest Attack on Trans Health Care. Forty Hospitals Already Did What It Wanted.
Washington called off the threat. The damage stayed where it fell.
A Narrow SCOTUS Ruling Ensures Trans Athletes Remain a Campaign Issue
The Court didn’t ban anything. It rubber-stamped the states that already had bans, left twenty-three states a choice, and kept the issue on every ballot — exactly as intended.
Nancy Mace’s South Carolina Flameout Is Another Canary in the Culture-War Coal Mine
Mace gave up a safe House seat to run for governor on a single issue — and lost
Transgender UW Student Killed in Student Housing Sunday Night was the Seventh Trans Woman Attacked in Seattle in Twenty Months.
A 19-year-old transgender UW student was killed in off-campus student housing Sunday night. She was the seventh trans woman attacked in Seattle in twenty months, and the first not to survive.
A Trans Man on a Woman's Team is Nothing to Celebrate
By choosing to pursue women's athletics despite labelling himself a trans man, Isaac Ranson hands sex change opponents ammunition to curtain all of our freedoms
Three Trans Women at the Met Gala. What It Means That We Get to Be Beautiful in Public.
A year and a half after trans people inexplicably became the central focus of the 2024 Presidential campaign - a campaign won by the candidate promising to end so-called transgender “mutilation” - three trans women made appearances on the red carpet at the Met Gala, heralds of a flailing moral panic and a kinder, more creative future.
Another Fox News Poll Finds Trans Issues are a Major Weakness for Republicans
The party that bet everything on anti-trans messaging is losing the economy, inflation, healthcare — and still losing transgender issues by thirteen points.
Dave Chappelle Says the GOP Weaponized His Trans Jokes. He’s Right — but the Story Isn’t About Him.
A comedian, a permission structure, and one thousand bills.
What Is John 50 — and Does It Explain Bryon Noem?
Every day I wake up and thank God that I was able to transition in my twenties.
Idaho Is Forcing Schools to Out Trans Kids. A Family Is Closing Their Business and Leaving.
The polling on parental notification is 71-21 against us. There's one frame that survives.
The IOC Banned Trans Athletes. The DOJ Went Further.
On March 26, the International Olympic Committee announced that transgender women would be barred from women’s events at the Olympics, effective at the 2028 Los Angeles Games.