A series of interviews conducted by Assigned Media reveals that even a step forward in resuming care is accompanied by major limitations and ongoing anxiety.

Trump asked SCOTUS to jump, and they asked, “How high?” The Supreme Court delivered a simpering single page approval for the Trump admin’s purge of trans people from the US military and presumably hoped for a treat and a good boy from the president, and now thousands of people will lose their livelihoods for no reason.

Among the scholars and artists are – surprise! – the trans and nonbinary people whom the president wants to erase.

When WV banned gender-affirming care for minors in 2023, they left in one exception for exceptionally at risk youth. Last week, they decided those children had it too good for too long.

The New York City hospital was one of the best known in the nation to acquiesce to Trump’s discriminatory anti-trans decree.

Leading Off: A government report that reads like a long anti-trans opinion piece. Trump just keeps losing in Maine. The top story lines as the week begins.

One hundred years prior to the UK Supreme court decision to cease recognition of trans men and women as their respective genders, one writer spoke on the abolition of gender.

Twitter gremlin JK Rowling tried to mic drop by posting a link to one of the most detached-from-reality websites you’ve ever seen in your life.

Veronica examines a 1988 paper covering forcible detransition of incarcerated trans women.

A memo to the DOJ suggests an outlandish legal reason to attempt to block gender affirming care for minors.

Amidst ongoing targeted attacks against trans people by the UK government, new NHS guidelines express intent to screen trans kids for autism and ADHD.

The lawyer, Bill Bock, is also prominently affiliated with a conservative Christian group that seeks “reformation of nations.”

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.

For a woman who regularly throws childish fits and embarrasses herself in public, at work and on television, Nancy Mace has outdone herself this week in the public spectacle department.

Veronica Esposito debunks some of the basic claims made by the UK’s “Sullivan Review.”

The federal judge overseeing the ACLU’s suit against the Trump administration over its policy regarding the sex marker on Americans’ federally issued identification documents has issued a temporary pause for six plaintiffs. The ACLU hopes to expand that pause to the rest of us.

Groups representing artists and academics are joining nations worldwide in warning international trans travelers: Beware the U.S.

Leading Off: J.K. Rowling celebrates on her yacht, but the backlash over an anti-trans ruling begins in the US and the UK. Is Trump tired of losing? The top story lines as the week begins.

During an interview with Fox News, silenced pundit Riley Gaines drew parallels between trans athletes, Marxism, and mysterious dark money, which she knows all about as the co-chair of dark money-funded Nine PAC.

Assigned Media interviews Shiwali Patel, Title IX expert, Professor of Law, and Senior Director of Safe and Inclusive Schools at the National Women’s Law Center.