Prevaricating politicians are nothing new, but when your elected officials are part of your community and start getting mealymouthed? That’s a whole other problem.

California recognized August as Transgender History Month in 2023. In challenging times, reclaiming our history is more urgent than ever.

In the 1930s, the scrappy young leader of the Oxford womens’ rowing team almost single-handedly propelled the women’s side of the sport into respectability. Nearly a hundred years later, the kind of man he would later become would be banned from the exact same team.

A January suit against two school districts and an interscholastic organization was just shut down for failing to establish any actual damages.

Quinnehtukqut McLamore traced the vast disinformation network poisoning the science on trans youth care.

Leading Off: More than a dozen states have challenged the DOJ’s targeting of youth care providers. The UK will study trans youth care, but community advocates warn the deck is stacked. And Brown University offers their trans students as a sacrifice. Our top stories starting out the week in trans news.

A Brown alumnus recalls his time at the ‘gayest’ university and calls for the Brown community to stand united against the Trump deal.

Suspended Scottish nurse involved in workplace tribunal over harassment of trans doctor is revealed to also be a racist.

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

After Australian TERF group Collective Shout waged a censorship campaign against payment processors like Visa, MasterCard and PayPal, popular platforms for hosting queer video games Itch and Steam began delisting queer content without warning.

Connecticut parents of trans youth respond to the loss of gender-affirming care at Yale. The move comes as providers across the country reduce care under pressure from the Trump administration.

As Kaiser Permanente acts to halt access to gender-affirming surgery for minors and young adults, many providers fear for the well-being of patients. Others are defending the decision.

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.

French President Emmanuel Macron’s wife Brigitte has filed suit against conservative internet yammerer Candace Owens as a result of Owens’ year-long harassment campaign.

An adult cartoon that reveled in the anti-woke backlash reckons with its impact.

A pipeline of pseudoscience funded by powerful right-wing hate groups has undermined medical truths with the help of big media.

The D.C. area hospital is the latest to submit to Trump’s desire to abolish gender-affirming care in America.

Assigned Media speaks with Massachusetts Representative candidate Bethany Andres-Beck.

Leading Off: Adult swimming nonprofit targeted for including trans women in events. Canadian judge halts deportation citing concerns over conditions of LGBTQ+ community in the US. And Assigned Media needs your support. Our top story lines to start the week.

Despite her insistence that she doesn’t want to be an activist or even talk about “trans issues,” conservative economics journalist Jessica Riedl has found herself at the center of a harassment campaign for merely existing.