There’s an opportunity here to normalize trans men and boys.

Kamala Harris, Democratic presidential nominee, has chosen governor of Minnesota Tim Walz as her running mate. Predictably, Donald Trump is UPSET.

Over the next nine months, Assigned Media will feature nine interviews of people involved in pushing back against the spread of false, distorted narratives about the trans community in the press. And we’ve tapped an old school transgender activist to do this, Riki Wilchins. To introduce this monthly feature, Evan Urquhart interviewed Riki Wilchins for Assigned. Their conversation has been lightly edited and condensed.

As red states across America face library book bans designed to target LGBTQ+ literature, conservatives are trying to shift California culture in the same direction. Fortunately, California’s State Assembly is making moves to prohibit book bans.

A doctor writes that Cass distorts the normal process for treating rare diseases with off-label medications.

Internet commenters noticed strange dark marks on the walls of Twitter’s most prolific transphobe, hack writer JK Rowling, and wondered… could they be mold? And would this explain her years-long crusade against trans people?

Obsessing over trans people the way Rowling does has its drawbacks! For a woman who insists trans women are men, she can’t seem to tell the difference between cis women and trans women… oops!

A 2019 paper by stef shuster found providers often substituted gatekeeping for informed consent in the practice of transgender healthcare.

A comic based on trans news stories from the month of July 2024.

The Nebraska Supreme Court has given the final thumbs up to a bill passed last year, LB 574, that restricts Nebraskans’ rights to bodily autonomy.

Behind the nightmare of youth gender treatment in Finland.

Chris Sununu signs three anti-trans bills into law. What does this increasing legislation against trans people mean for the near and far future?

She’s back, baby! JK Rowling brings us yet another stunningly braindead take on trans people. Thankfully, this one’s comically easy to disprove… but who, exactly, is Jo getting her rancid info from?

In a candid chat with disgraced professor and meat coma weirdo Jordan Peterson, owner of Twitter (formerly X) Elon Musk just comes out and admits he’s a transphobe because he was spurned by his trans daughter. You know… in so many words.

Gavin Newsom signs law protecting LGBTQ+ kids from forced outing by schools. Conservatives are, unsurprisingly, upset by laws protecting children.

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has declared J.D. Vance, author of Hillbilly Elegy and junior senator from Ohio, his VP Elect. Why is Vance famous, and why is he an absolute nightmare for America? Let’s talk about it!

Looks like that landslide Labour win won’t be a return to sanity for trans folks in the UK. New Health Secretary Wes Streeting has declared open war on the trans community by expressing an interest in permanently banning private care puberty blocker prescriptions thanks to the bogus Cass Report.

Competing as your sex assigned at birth is not enough for conservatives. A track runner, assigned female at birth, is accused by conservatives of being a man simply due to their non-binary identity.

The politicization of surgery for minors has made discussing this evidence deeply taboo.

Every politician is all about the troops! Well… as long as those troops aren’t trans. The Armed Services Committee slapped two anti-trans riders onto the military’s annual funding on Monday. Will the Democrat majority senate have the stones to shut them down? Yeaaah, probably not.