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News   -   Dec 17, 2025 US house votes to ban youth HRT, potentially dooming thousands of kids to early deaths
US house votes to ban youth HRT, potentially dooming thousands of kids to early deaths

The bill is the most consequential attack of trans rights in the 21st century,

News   -   Dec 16, 2025 US House to vote on transition medicine ban for anyone under 18
US House to vote on transition medicine ban for anyone under 18

The text of the bill, including proposed amendments, makes acting to facilitate social and medical transition legally the same category as felony fraud, making the affirmation of transgender youth punishable by incarceration and loss of voting rights. It will be voted on tomorrow, Dec. 17.

HHS bans trans youth care, blocks virtually all US hospitals from performing medicine for trans people under 18
News   -   Dec 18, 2025 HHS bans trans youth care, blocks virtually all US hospitals from performing medicine for trans people under 18

The new rules will effectively end transition care for trans kids and likely have a chilling effect on transition care for trans adults, all via executive rulemaking through the threat of a total loss of funding.

by Artemis T. Douglas & Jane Migliara Brigham
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News   -   Dec 18, 2025 HHS bans trans youth care, blocks virtually all US hospitals from performing medicine for trans people under 18
HHS bans trans youth care, blocks virtually all US hospitals from performing medicine for trans people under 18

The new rules will effectively end transition care for trans kids and likely have a chilling effect on transition care for trans adults, all via executive rulemaking through the threat of a total loss of funding.

by Artemis T. Douglas & Jane Migliara Brigham
News   -   Dec 17, 2025 US house votes to ban youth HRT, potentially dooming thousands of kids to early deaths
US house votes to ban youth HRT, potentially dooming thousands of kids to early deaths

The bill is the most consequential attack of trans rights in the 21st century,

by Jane Migliara Brigham
News   -   Dec 16, 2025 US House to vote on transition medicine ban for anyone under 18
US House to vote on transition medicine ban for anyone under 18

The text of the bill, including proposed amendments, makes acting to facilitate social and medical transition legally the same category as felony fraud, making the affirmation of transgender youth punishable by incarceration and loss of voting rights. It will be voted on tomorrow, Dec. 17.

by Artemis T. Douglas & Jane Migliara Brigham
News   -   Dec 16, 2025 Federal trans sports ban set to become law, defining trans people out of legal existence
Federal trans sports ban set to become law, defining trans people out of legal existence

In terms of Capitol Hill politics, the passage of this bill is a foregone conclusion.  There is no will from the Senate to put the funding of the military on hold to prevent discrimination of trans people.

by Jane Migliara Brigham
Investigations   -   Dec 14, 2025 US-based hate group behind rise of anti-trans science and standards worldwide
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SEGM has spent almost $1.5 million dollars and received nearly $2 million to push anti-trans hate into "scientific" legitimacy and "evidenced based" objectivity.

by Artemis T. Douglas & Jane Migliara Brigham
Good News!   -   Dec 11, 2025 Good News! Trans youth healthcare ban defeated in the Senate
Good News! Trans youth healthcare ban defeated in the Senate

The ban was attached to a plan to defund subsidies for health insurance plans bought through the public market.

by Jane Migliara Brigham
News   -   Dec 11, 2025 Irish National Gender Service closes waiting list due to chronic and deliberate underfunding
Irish National Gender Service closes waiting list due to chronic and deliberate underfunding

Prior to the closure, the only other ways to get HRT in Ireland were DIY, or expensive private health clinics that issue EU-recognized prescriptions, but operate outside of Ireland itself.

by Artemis T. Douglas
News   -   Dec 08, 2025 US Senate pushing ban on trans healthcare, most abortions, nationwide
US Senate pushing ban on trans healthcare, most abortions, nationwide

The US federal government is poised to codify that trans lives are inherently wasteful and effectively end transition for most people across the entire United States.

by Artemis T. Douglas & Jane Migliara Brigham
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