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Montana judge strikes down law banning gender-affirming care for minors

https://thehill.com/homenews/lgbtq/5300 ... ming-care/

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Utah lawmakers’ own study found gender-affirming care benefits trans youth. Will they lift the treatment ban?

https://www.sltrib.com/news/politics/20 ... udy-found/
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In better news from Italy though:

Not recognizing intending mother unconstitutional -top court

https://www.ansa.it/english/news/genera ... 5b31b.html

Court OKs gay's adoption of child born via surrogacy

https://www.ansa.it/english/news/2025/0 ... abc2c.html

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Inside Palm Springs’ Queer Rodeo
by Caleb Kaufman
May 26, 2025

Introduction:

(Mother Jones) In early May, the small city of Banning, California, hosted the Palm Springs Hot Rodeo. The competition, which has occurred most years for the past 50, salutes the homoeroticism of rodeo culture. The four-day event—an official stop on the International Gay Rodeo Association circuit—features traditional rodeo events like steer wrestling and calf roping, along with more whimsical activities like a wild drag race, in which a person in drag rides a steer while their teammates guide it, and goat dressing, in which a pair attempts to put tighty-whities on a goat as quickly as possible.

All events are open to any gender—men can barrel race and women can bull ride. “A lot of gay people can’t be incorporated into the other rodeo world,” contestant Savannah Smith told me. “You can do whatever you want here,” she added, “and everyone here is supportive.”

This year, the festive event took place against increasing attacks on queer rights. Two days after the rodeo ended, the Supreme Court allowed the Trump administration’s ban on transgender soldiers in the US military. It is unclear what will be targeted next; some fear the overturning of Obergefell v. Hodges, the landmark 2015 decision legalizing gay marriage. Against this backdrop, the Hot Rodeo serves as an important reminder of the resilience of queer culture in America, with its inclusive celebration of LGBTQ athleticism and joy.

See photos here: https://www.motherjones.com/media/2025 ... ights /

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Utah Study on Trans Youth Care Extremely Inconvenient for Politicians Who Ordered It
by Madison Pauly
May 24, 2025

Introduction:

(Mother Jones) In 2022, Utah Gov. Spencer Cox was the rare Republican governor who seemed to truly care about the well-being of transgender kids. “I don’t understand what they are going through or why they feel the way they do. But I want them to live,” he wrote in a letter that year, explaining why he was vetoing a bill that would have banned four trans middle- and high schoolers in Utah from playing on sports teams with classmates who shared their gender identity. “All the research shows that even a little acceptance and connection can reduce suicidality significantly.”

Meanwhile, nationally, Republican politicians were making opposition to trans rights a core tenet of their platforms, filing hundreds of bills attacking trans kids at the doctor’s office, at school, and on the field. Early in the 2023 legislative session, Cox capitulated, signing a bill that placed an indefinite “moratorium” on doctors providing puberty blockers and hormone therapy to trans kids with gender dysphoria. The bill ordered the Utah health department to commission a systematic review of medical evidence around the treatments, with the goal of producing recommendations for the legislature on whether to lift the moratorium. “We sincerely hope that we can treat our transgender families with more love and respect as we work to better understand the science and consequences behind these procedures,” Cox said at the time.

Now, more than two years later, that review is here, and its conclusions unambiguously support gender-affirming medical care for trans youth. “The conventional wisdom among non-experts has long been that there are limited data” on gender-affirming pediatric care, the authors wrote. “However, results from our exhaustive literature searches have lead us to the opposite conclusion.”

The medical evidence review, published on Wednesday, was compiled over a two-year period by the Drug Regimen Review Center at the University of Utah. Unlike the federal government’s recent report on the same subject, which was produced in three months and criticized gender-affirming pediatric treatments, the names of the Utah report’s contributors are actually disclosed on the more than thousand-page document.

Read more here: https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2 ... re-ban/

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Hilary Cass Hit with Lawsuit for Concealing Review Papers

https://ashleeee.substack.com/p/hilary- ... awsuit-for

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Fossil fuel billionaires are bankrolling the anti-trans movement

https://heated.world/p/fossil-fuel-bill ... ankrolling

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Judge says government can't limit passport sex markers for many transgender, nonbinary people

Source: AP

Updated 7:07 PM EDT, June 17, 2025

BOSTON (AP) — A federal judge expanded a ruling Tuesday that blocked the Trump administration from enacting policy changes to sex markers on passports for many transgender and nonbinary Americans.

In an executive order signed in January, the president used a narrow definition of the sexes instead of a broader conception of gender. The order says a person is male or female and it rejects the idea that someone can transition from the sex assigned at birth to another gender.

U.S. District Judge Julia Kobick granted a motion to apply her earlier ruling to people who want a passport different than the male/female sex designation they were given at birth and those who want an X designation.

The ruling applies only to those people who are currently without a valid passport, those whose passport is expiring within a year, and those who need to apply for a passport because theirs was lost or stolen or because they need to change their name or sex designation. Initially the ruling only applied to the six plaintiffs in the case.

Read more: https://apnews.com/article/transgender- ... 6fc0305983

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Supreme Court upholds Tennessee law restricting gender-affirming care for minors

https://www.yahoo.com/news/supreme-cour ... 55516.html

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Of course it did because we're a fascist religious shithole.

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Trump Administration Will End L.G.B.T.Q. Suicide Prevention Service, The Trevor Project
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/18/well ... ntion.html

The federal government says it will maintain funding for a national suicide prevention hotline, but no longer pay for specialized support for L.G.B.T.Q. people

The Trump administration has instructed the national suicide prevention hotline to stop offering specialized support to L.G.B.T.Q. callers next month, saying those callers can rely on the hotline’s general services.

The Trevor Project, a nonprofit that has provided that specialized support to L.G.B.T.Q. callers to the 988 suicide prevention hotline, said Wednesday that it had received a stop-work order for that service, effective July 17, and provided a copy of the order to The New York Times.

The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, the agency within the Department of Health and Human Services that oversees the hotline, confirmed the decision.

The option for L.G.B.T.Q. support was established in 2022 based on a recognition that gay and transgender people experience distinct mental health issues — often driven by family rejection and societal discrimination — and have disproportionately high suicide rates.

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Supreme Court Upholds Tennessee Ban on Gender-Affirming Care for Minors
By Madison Pauly
June 18, 2025

Introduction:

(Mother Jones) Three years after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, allowing states to ban abortion, the justices have decided to let states ban another politically controversial form of health care—this time, gender-affirming medical treatments for minors.

In a major ruling on Wednesday, the Supreme Court upheld a Tennessee law banning transgender kids, but not cisgender kids, from accessing puberty blockers and hormone therapy—regardless of their parents’ support for the treatment. Tennessee’s law is one of 25 state bans on pediatric gender-affirming care passed nationwide since 2021. Nearly all of those laws are currently facing legal challenges by transgender children and their families, and are now expected to be allowed to remain in effect.

The 6-3 decision in United States v. Skrmetti was one of the most anticipated rulings of the year. In their decision today, the justices decided that Tennessee’s ban on gender-affirming care for minors does not treat people differently based on sex, but rather based on age and the medical reason for treatment. As a result, they ruled, the law only has to meet a low legal standard in order to be considered constitutional.

The “case carries with it the weight of fierce scientific and policy debates about the safety, efficacy, and propriety of medical treatments in an evolving field,” Chief Justice John Roberts wrote in the majority opinion. “The voices in these debates raise sincere concerns; the implications for all are profound.”

After concluding that the Tennessee law does not violate the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment, Roberts said that the court was leaving the issue of pediatric gender-affirming care to the states—the same position the court took in the decision overturning Roe v. Wade. “We leave questions regarding its policy to the people, their elected representatives, and the democratic process,” Roberts wrote in his opinion on Wednesday

Read more here: https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2 ... -minors/

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Great, now I can pull my kids from lessons that feature Christian elements. It offends my Satanism. /s

Seriously though, where does this end? Do parents now get to pull their kids from lessons on evolution?

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Hungary Banned Pride Events. Thousands Marched Anyway.
By Laura C. Morel
June 28, 2025

Introduction:

(Mother Jones) Earlier this year, Hungary’s parliament passed legislation banning Pride events and allowing the use of facial recognition technology to identify attendees. The ban is supported by Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, a conservative nationalist and Trump ally whose regime has been widely described as anti-democratic. Orbán has for years decried “gender insanity” and “woke globalists,” the New York Times reports, “distracting attention from Hungary’s faltering economy and revving up his right-wing rural base.”

But in spite of the ban, tens of thousands of people marched through Budapest on Saturday during the city’s 30th annual Pride march, according to several news outlets. At least 70 European Parliament members also attended, CNN reported. The event had the support of Budapest’s liberal mayor, Gergely Karácsony. “They have trapped themselves by trying to ban something that cannot be banned,” Karácsony said, according to the Times.

On Friday, Orbán suggested that law enforcement would not actively intervene in the demonstration, calling Hungary a “civilized country,” but held the door open to later legal action.

“We are adults, and I recommend that everyone should decide what they want, keep to the rules… and if they don’t, then they should face the clear legal consequences,” Orbán told state radio, according to Reuters.

Despite the ban and Orbán’s remarks on Friday, the event attracted large crowds, who began their march from the steps of Budapest’s city hall. Livestreams of the event showed participants of all ages flooding the streets with rainbow flags and supportive signs. “Solidarity is our pride,” one placard read. “None of us are free until everyone is free,” another sign said.

Read more here: https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2 ... or-orban/

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Ban on political parties taking part in Pride ‘a retrograde step’, says minister

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/politic ... 34497.html