Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey (R) signed a bill last week permitting religiously based discrimination in adoption and foster care, his third recent anti-LGBTQ law. At the end of March, he also signed two laws targeting transgender youth. Read More >>

Massachusetts parentage laws are long out of date and exclude many children, particularly those with LGBTQ parents and/or de facto parents. The Massachusetts Parentage Act (MPA) would change that, but faces a deadline next week that means we must act now in urging legislators to move it forward. Read More >>

The Alabama legislature passed bills yesterday making it a felony to provide gender-affirming care to trans youth, banning trans children in K-12 schools from using bathrooms aligned with their gender identities, and banning discussion of sexual orientation and gender identity in K-12 classrooms. Read More >>

Not one, but two LGBTQ-inclusive guides for young people about puberty, gender, bodies, and sex are coming out this month. One is the long-awaited third volume in an acclaimed series, the other is backed by the imprimatur of the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), and both are excellent. Read More >>

Ah, spring! Time of flowers, birdsong, and, for many of us parents and our children, college visits. My own son went through the college admissions process a couple of years ago. While I am in no way an expert on the topic, I thought I’d share a few things we found helpful. Read More >>

New LGBTQ-inclusive kids’ books out today include three middle-grade books full of adventure, an introduction to pronouns, a gender-neutral story of two friends, and stories dealing gently but firmly with tough topics of consent and abuse. Read More >>

In a record year for book challenges, a memoir about growing up nonbinary and asexual has topped the American Library Association’s (ALA’s) annual Top 10 Most Challenged Books list, and books with LGBTQIA+ and Black characters remained dominant among all censorship attempts. Read More >>

Politicians in Florida are scrambling as a typo in the state’s new “Don’t Say Gay” law is sending the economy into chaos. Mistakenly written as “Don’t Say Pay,” the law now means that all money and payment systems in the state are illegal. Read More >>

Librarians, authors, and others are speaking out against a leading provider of school library software after it announced yesterday that it is considering an optional add-on that would help schools and librarians comply with new and pending legislation that requires parents be allowed to know of and control access to the books their children check out—which could out and endanger LGBTQ students. Read More >>

Today is the Transgender Day of Visibility, so I want to give greater visibility to a terrific middle grade series with a trans protagonist that you may have missed because his trans identity isn’t the point. He’s just a young man who has adventures through the multiverse via magical suitcases, and happens to be trans. It’s delightful! Read More >>