An authoritarian government, a captured press and cowardice at the head of most major institutions led to a year of losses for trans people’s safety and equality in the US.

Leading Off: The DOJ launches investigations into gender-affirming care providers. ICE erases the numbers of transgender people in custody. And the EOCC resumes processing discrimination complaints by trans workers. The top story lines as the week begins.

On July 3, 1992, the body of trans activist Marsha P. Johnson was found floating in the Hudson. Thirty-three years later, the trans community still finds itself at the end of a gun.

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

The National Parks Service erases all mention of trans people from the Stonewall National Monument after a flurry of executive orders, but erasure will not stop us from existing.