In a press release on Monday the Department of Veterans Affairs declared that veterans seeking treatment for their gender dysphoria are out of luck.

Trans rights emerged as more than 200 people packed an “emergency town hall” in Manhattan to plot a major protest march this month.

Pushback in two hotbeds of anti-trans legislation. Trump deals more cruelty and confusion for trans veterans. The top story lines as the week begins.

A measure pending in the state Senate seeks to enshrine “exclusion, discrimination” into law.

Anti-trans hate group Genspect (and others!) arranged a celebration for the new holiday they invented, Detrans Awareness Day. Isn’t that exciting?

The California governor has betrayed young constituents and caused them “extreme harm,” they said, by cozying up to the right to lift his own presidential aspirations.

After declining to hear a case on conversion therapy in 2023, the Supreme Court has decided to hear an identical one starting in October.

Will Trump obey the courts? Cass is getting lonelier by the moment. And the Germans warn about travel to the U.S. The leading story lines as the week begins.

After competing the only way she’s allowed to, Sadie Schreiner is once more being hounded by right-wing “journalists” trying to create something from nothing in pursuit of a nonstop culture war against trans people. Par for the course, I suppose!

A 2022 paper explores the impacts of trans erasure in an academic field known for its “gender essentialist” thinking.

But was the defeat of a federal sports ban a real turning point? The Senate Democrats issued no joint statement presaging future support for transgender people.

The crimes they are accused of, if true, are deplorable. Unforgivable, even. But in a society where no cis white Christian man is blamed for the mass shootings their cohort is mostly responsible for, why should our community be blamed for the actions of bad people who happen to be trans?

Quality information that accurately represents medical science and reflects trans perspectives is a huge factor in swaying public opinion.

A comic based on trans news stories from the month of February 2025.

Maine House Rep Laurel Libby (R) has been censured, or prohibited from speaking on the floor of the House or voting, until she apologizes for posting pictures of and dead naming a trans minor in a viral Facebook post.

A new nonprofit launches a programming series to bring together young trans leaders with “top voices in art, government, science, and public service.”

Board of education candidates elected with the backing of anti-trans groups have changed the political landscape in one New Jersey county, a new data analysis shows. Students are at risk.

Following a day one proclamation invalidating transgender identities at the federal level, Hunter Schafer reports on TikTok that her reissued passport has the wrong gender marker on it.

She helped create the world’s first transgender cultural district in San Francisco during years of Bay Area advocacy. What has she found in Houston, a blue city in her new red-state home? Camaraderie and dedication.

A fiery rally outside Stonewall Inn marked the re-emergence of an activist group that had been a force from the days of Brandon Teena. “You never really get away from being a menace,” a founder said, “but I’m angry I have to do it.”