Politics

News   Feb 3, 2026

Arizona bill would use cover of drag show restrictions to ban trans people in public spaces

The bill is written so broadly as to restrict trans public presence in many contexts.

News   Feb 3, 2026

First Major US Medical Association Opposes Trans Youth Healthcare, Changing Previous Position

ASPS cites the Cass report and the HHS report to make its case

Politics   Feb 3, 2026

The Needle endorses Lilliana Young for Indiana House

As candidate for Indiana House District 61, Lilliana Young has shown the right kind of leadership.

News   Jan 31, 2026

Jess Ting, Prolific Vaginoplasty Surgeon, performed plastic surgery for Jeffrey Epstein’s “girls”, brought young children to Epstein’s island

Details in the recent Epstein Files document a working relationship between the two which spanned nearly a decade. By Jane Migliara Brigham & Artemis T. Douglas Jess Ting, a plastic surgeon who is now renowned for his work of performing vaginoplasties on trans patients, previously used his clinic to give

Opinion   Jan 30, 2026

Americans favor Dems’ handling of trans issues. That doesn’t mean Americans support trans people.

It merely means that given a binary choice between Democrats and Republicans, most choose the Democrats to ‘handle’ us.

News   Jan 28, 2026

Kansas to revoke driver's licenses of trans people, replacing them with IDs meant to out them

This bill would be the harshest legal restriction on trans life anywhere in the United States, and is all but certain to pass.

News   Jan 28, 2026

Trump Administration bans foreign aid from funding trans healthcare

The new sweeping rules expand the existing ban on foreign aid to abortion providers to include providers of trans healthcare and anything else that it deems to be “gender ideology”.

News   Jan 21, 2026

Bill defining trans people out of legal existence to be voted on in Indiana

The bill was voted to be advanced to a floor vote on a 9-3 decision along party lines.