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After another federal judge quashed a subpoena to access trans kids' medical records, Judge Reed O'Connor of Texas orders a Rhode Island hospital to send them his way.

🌟🚨Not only did Judge O’Connor tell hospital officials to hand over those files — in direct conflict with an order by a federal judge in Providence — he also ordered Rhode Island Hospital not to “cooperate” with anyone seeking to block the original Department of Justice subpoena that started this tug of war

The administration plans to charge countries for CDC support services.

"I place a great deal of blame on the current administration,” the owner of the performer’s historic drag venue said.

🚨The message: "Faggots = gas chambers."

Over the weekend, a suspect tagged a building housing a Castro-area floral design shop with hateful graffiti and assaulted a neighbor, and the shop owners are hoping San Francisco police will bring the suspect to justice soon.

Florida’s anti-LGBTQ+ Attorney General James Uthmeier (R) is trying to outlaw surrogacy in the state, claiming it’s akin to “modern-day slavery.”

The BOP rejected Senate Democrats who pleaded with officials to treat trans inmates with dignity.

BOP spokesperson Donald Murphy responded to the letter in a statement to the Los Angeles Blade, slamming the Biden administration’s trans friendly policies and claiming the current administration’s policies are based in science rather than “radical ideology.”

"There is a downward moral decline spiraling ever deeper into the mire. Things that never would have been talked about publicly just 30 years ago, sinful behavior that should make us blush, is now celebrated and flaunted on Main Street America,” Graham vented. “America has become morally rotten, completely sick with sin; transgenderism, same-sex marriage, opening women’s locker rooms to men, are just the tip of the iceberg.”

California officials canceled one of America’s largest Pride festivals just before opening, triggering a bitter public feud over safety, politics, and the future of Pride itself....Across the United States, Pride organizations are confronting rising security costs, political backlash, anti-LGBTQ+ legislation, shrinking sponsorship dollars, and increasing operational burdens.

A newly elected Reform UK councillor has resigned after it was revealed he is also a gay porn performer, but the party defended him, saying: “He has not broken the law.”

This is legal scapegoating at work. We are seeing, in real-time, the use of law to normalize the idea of controlling a vulnerable group, and we are being told that this legal control is both “common sense” and necessary for the health and well-being of our communities and nation.

"In the next five years, I think there is a big question mark as to how many will still be open."

A March survey by The Barbed Wire found that since 2020, at least 15 LGBTQ+ bars, clubs and businesses have closed in Texas alone.

Lesbian-focused bars in particular have been nearly decimated. And the challenges facing the ones that are still open—both economic and social—are mounting, community members say.

Opinion: A generation raised to believe things were getting better is now watching anti-LGBTQ+ hostility once again become the norm, writes Josh Ackley.

"The legislation is violence. The propaganda is violence. The algorithm is violence. The hearings are violence. The jokes are violence. The constant framing of queer people as contamination, danger, instability, corruption, social collapse, moral infection, demographic threat, ideological poison. It’s all violence."

The legal challenge comes after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down a Colorado conversion therapy ban.

They say it undermines “parental authority” for shows to discuss LGBTQ+ people without warning.

The Texas attorney general has secured an unusual settlement over child transgender care that compels Texas Children’s Hospital to create the nation’s first ever “detransition clinic” in addition to paying the state $10 million. According to Attorney General Ken Paxton, the multidisciplinary clinic would offer medical care to patients “who were subjected to ‘gender-transition’ procedures.” The care would be free of charge to patients for the first years of the clinic’s operation.

Elliot Page might play the mythological hero Achilles & the right is losing its mind.

With Elliot Page’s casting announced in Christopher Nolan’s upcoming The Odyssey, rumors have gained traction online that Page will be playing Achilles, known as the greatest of all Greek warriors. Shockingly, right-wing voices have come out in outrage at the concept of a trans man being cast in the role.

“The most famous warrior in all of history, not just Greek history, Achilles, is about to be played by a transgender woman in a brand new movie,” said right-wing Newsmax anchor Rob Finnerty in a rant in which he repeatedly misgendered Page and referred to Achilles and his accomplishments as historical, despite Achilles being a mythical figure.

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Finnerty had more to say, taking issue with Page’s physique: “You might even remember Brad Pitt played Achilles in a movie 20 years ago, meaning we go from Brad Pitt to a girl who dresses as a guy who’s five-foot-one, 118 pounds. That’s the person who’s going to be playing the greatest warrior in history, because to the left, that is normal. That’s okay.”

He then went on to criticize the casting of Black actress Lupita Nyong’o as Helen of Troy, a mythological (not historical) figure who Finnerty claimed was “definitely white.”

At least seven judges have blocked invasive administrative subpoenas targeting gender-affirming care for minors, so DOJ appears to be trying a new tactic to get the info it wants.

🌟Federal appeals court weighs whether schools must out trans students during trips

The annual Social Media Safety Index report accuses Meta and YouTube of rolling back protections while online anti-LGBTQ+ hate and disinformation surge.

Major social media platforms are retreating from protections for LGBTQ+ users and helping fuel a more hostile online environment, according to GLAAD’s annual Social Media Safety Index released last week, which found declining safety scores across nearly every major platform reviewed.

The report accuses companies, including Meta and YouTube, of weakening moderation policies, rolling back protections for transgender users, suppressing LGBTQ+ content, and failing to curb escalating anti-LGBTQ+ hate and disinformation online.

"A trans student was murdered last night, please cancel this event.”