The Trump administration has proposed two new rules that would effectively ban gender-affirming care for all transgender youth, even in states where such care is legal. Here’s what you can do to try and stop them.
Representation matters—so for the start of Transgender Awareness Week (and all year long), check out these terrific new picture and middle grade books from 2025 with trans protagonists. They include realistic fiction, biographies, and stories with a touch of magic—one of which is a finalist for the prestigious National Book Award!
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled yesterday to uphold Tennessee’s ban on gender-affirming health care for transgender youth. It’s an awful outcome that reveals the hypocrisy of conservatives’ talk about “parental rights”—but trans rights advocates are vowing to keep fighting.
Today is the 10th annual National Day of Reading: A Celebration of Trans Stories, so let’s celebrate with some terrific recent picture, chapter, and middle grade books with trans protagonists and role models to read today or any day!
This roundup looks at further negative impacts of recent executive orders, but also at another lawsuit against them, the introduction of positive legislation in two states, and some celebrity moments of queer joy.
This week has seen a steady stream of appalling, transphobic executive orders from the new administration. We shouldn’t minimize the harm these will cause—but we can find some hope in the actions already being taken to stop them.
Newbery honoree Kyle Lukoff’s new middle grade novel is the tale of a Jewish, transgender boy trying to save the world from anti-trans demons. That alone should be enough to commend it. But it’s also much more: a powerful story of self-growth, the many ways of transformation, and the complexity of human relationships.
For the first LGBTQ Parenting Roundup of 2025, we have some awful news about anti-LGBTQ legislation—but also some more hopeful headlines. Come see what’s happening!
The defense funding bill passed yesterday by the U.S. Senate includes a provision that would severely restrict service members with transgender children from providing them with all care that may be deemed medically necessary. It is now up to President Biden to decide whether to sign it.
Today, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments in a case brought by transgender adolescents and their families against a Tennessee law banning gender-affirming medical care for trans youth. ACLU lawyer Chase Strangio, who is also a dad, will be arguing before the court, the first out trans person to do so.
