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Joining this lawsuit is the most concrete step towards protecting trans care that the New York Attorney General's Office has taken since Trump entered office last year.
The Needle is issuing a voluntary retraction for our article “Kansas' Investigations of Trans People in Bathrooms Personally Overseen by Democrat Appointee Adam Proffitt,” which was published Aug 22. We regret these mistakes.
There aren't many new people like Julia Curlee entering public service, in no small part because we often aren't allowed to work there anymore.
The Trump Administration’s threats to defund facilities that treat trans minors is harming intersex youth who also need hormone therapy. “The federal government,” one mom said, “does not recognize, basically” that kids like hers exist.
We caught back up with Joanna Whaley to discuss her primary election victory, what has happened in the last year, and her plans for the future.
The rule changes are the latest steps in a campaign which the Trump administration has been waging since its first days back in office: ending trans healthcare, particularly for trans children.
Detrans.ai claims to help people explore gender dysphoria with “balance.” Instead, it cites reactionary talking points and debunked science to question trans identity.
We obtained internal communications between SEGM and McMaster University detailing what SEGM wanted out of anti-trans medical studies, and why it was willing to pay over CA$300,000 (US$215,300) to produce them.
