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A new study has found that healthcare professionals are not doing enough to screen trans patients who have had top surgery for breast cancer. Published July 29 in the Breast Cancer Research and Treatment journal, the researchers emphasized the “dearth of available data” on cancer risk profiles of people who have had gender-affirming mastectomies, “including

A defense lawyer astonished: “Going in, I had hoped I was paranoid, and boards’ outcomes were not predetermined. It turned out to be much worse than I thought,” said Army Reserve lawyer Priya Rashid. Why it matters: The military entered new territory when it started kicking out people who were previously allowed in, all because

Actor Geno Segers will no longer be the next star in the Broadway production of Hadestown after videos of him making transphobic comments resurfaced last week. The producers confirmed in a statement that they have “mutually agreed” to part ways with Segers only days after announcing his role as Hades. While the statement did not

President Donald Trump delivers remarks at a Hope for Prisoners graduation ceremony at Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department headquarters in February 2020. | USA TODAY Network via Reuters Connect Numerous internet commenters pointed out that when President Donald Trump gave a rally speech in Las Vegas, Nevada on Wednesday night, he seemed to have a

Source: @louqueernaval on Instagram. Where does your mind go when you hear “French Riviera”? The Cannes Film Festival? Saint-Tropez and its famous celebrity parties? It’s likely conjuring a luxurious image. And you’re not wrong. From the pensioners of Cagnes-sur-Mer to the wistful art-lovers of Antibes, the southern coast of France is bubbling over with lovers

Former New York City Mayor and lawyer to Donald Trump, Rudy Giuliani, is now saying that expanding pre-K programs will turn kids transgender. Giuliani was attacking a new program from Mayor Zohran Mamdani (D) and Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) to expand the city’s pre-K program to include two-year-olds. They announced that there would be over

A 54-year-old woman named Yolanda Olejniczak Marodi confessed on Tuesday to lethally stabbing her 49-year-old wife Rebecca “Becky” Marodi, in their Ramona, California home on February 17. Marodi was a lesbian captain for California’s Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (Cal Fire). Yolanda Marodi also stabbed her previous husband to death in 2011. Rebecca Marodi

Rep. Chris Pappas (D-NH) made history in 2018 as the first out gay person to represent New Hampshire in Congress. Now, he’s trying to make history again with his campaign to become the first out gay man to serve in the Senate. So naturally, Chris Pappas’ LGBTQ+ record is receiving renewed interest from state voters

A mob of people beat a transgender couple on May 31 after one of the partners used a public restroom in Bossier Parish, Louisiana. After the attack, police arrested one of the trans women, took her to a men’s jail, and has now charged the couple with offenses that could imprison them for months. Near

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy faced stiff criticism in June when he announced that he had taken a seven-month road trip paid for by millions of dollars in corporate largesse, ostensibly to produce a reality TV series celebrating America’s 250th anniversary. But several months later, people are asking, “Where’s the show?” Related Insights for the LGBTQ+

Opponents of gender-affirming care for trans youth often claim that puberty blockers negatively impact young people’s bone density; something that sounds alarming considering that adolescence is the primary time of life when humans acquire their lifelong bone mass. However, a study published today in the journal JAMA Pediatrics concluded that trans minors on puberty blockers

After defending the actions of a security guard who threw a lesbian couple out of a women’s restroom and accused one of them of being a man, a five-star hotel in Boston has suspended the guard and admitted he acted in error. In addition to sidelining the staff member, the Liberty Hotel on Boston’s Beacon

Out former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said in an interview published Monday that he is “more inclined than not” to run for president again in 2028, furthering long-held suspicions that he may do so. “I think I’m more inclined than not, but there’s so much we don’t know,” Buttigieg told British business podcaster Steven Bartlett

The state of Michigan agreed last Thursday to abandon its ban on anti-LGBTQ+ conversion therapy following a federal judge’s decision against it. This makes Michigan the first state to say it will stop enforcing its conversion therapy ban in the wake of the Supreme Court’s decision in Chiles v. Salazar earlier this year. “Michigan will

Stonewall uprising veteran Stormé DeLarverie and her wife Diana met in 1943 at Smalls’ Paradise, a 24-hour nightclub in Harlem. Stormé — a “stone butch gay woman” in the words of their “gay daughter,” trans singer Christy Henderson Jenkins — went on to be the “male impersonator” emcee for the Jewel Box Revue, a racially

What happened: Abdul Ballout, a German citizen who was a supporter of the Islamic State (ISIL), drove a rented van into the Tiergarten in Berlin on the last day of the city’s Christopher Street Day celebrations, killing one person and injuring around 30 others. He then went on a knife rampage, escaped, and died in

If you know, you know. That was the case with Casa Susanna, a guesthouse in New York’s Catskill Mountains, which in the 1950s and 60s catered to a particular subset of the LGBTQ+ community, a group trans author and journalist Sandy Ernest Allen described as “transfeminine cross-dressers.” Related Some even brought their wives for weekends

In her first political ad, Darline Graham, sister of the recently deceased (and allegedly queer) anti-LGBTQ+ Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), said, “Men don’t belong in women’s sports” and other statements meant to burnish her MAGA conservative credentials, as Republican in her state doubt her chances of winning an election, especially considering that she is widely

A New Jersey high school reached a settlement with the family of Myles Fitzpatrick, a trans teen who took his own life in 2022 after serial harassment by classmates and the alleged failure of school staff to acknowledge his distress or stop the bullying, My Central Jersey reports. Fitzpatrick, who started his transition two years

Administration officials presented a map of Africa where every single highlighted country was mislabeled at a global conference in Brazil this week. The US State Department included the map as part of their presentation at the AIDS 2026 conference in Rio de Janeiro to highlight agreements made with different countries. Related “A US government map

Country rock singer Aaron Lee Tasjan said eight concertgoers walked out during the July 12 performance of his satirical and transgender-inclusive song, “I Love America Better Than You,” at the 859 St. Joseph’s Church in Galveston, Texas. He said he appreciated those who left for “exercising their free will.” “Towards the end of ‘I Love

The right has been ginning up hatred against transgender people for years now in order to pass bans on sports and gender-affirming care amid their War on Woke. But now that every state that could pass one of these laws has already done so, they’re looking for new targets… and they’re using artificial intelligence (AI)

President Donald Trump late Tuesday night endorsed Michigan Republican Amir Hassan for the U.S. House. Hassan said he only got involved in politics after a transgender woman used the same bathroom as his daughter. “When my 18-year-old daughter was younger, a man identifying as woman walked into the same restroom as her,” Hassan told Midland

Funding for HIV services is the likely victim of a longtime Republican goal of devolving power to the states. The Trump administration notified the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) last month that it would cease a years-long community grant program funding local organizations that provide HIV testing, referrals for care, PrEP and Doxy PEP, and outbreak

A former employee of PepsiCo sued the company on July 24, alleging that the company fired her after she returned from family leave following a period of repeated anti-gay harassment that they failed to stop, Human Resources Direction reported. Her lawsuit was filed in the US District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. The

Republicans opposed to the Senate campaign of Texas state Rep. James Talarico (D) have repeatedly criticized him for allegedly saying that there are “six genders.” The attacks over this and his other comments on gender have inspired Republicans to attack his masculinity and to paint him as “extreme,” “radical,” a “freak,” and out of touch

The Trump administration on Monday threatened legal action and the end of federal education funding against the Anne Arundel County Public School District of Maryland for allegedly withholding information about a child’s gender identity from their parents, The Baltimore Banner reported. The federal government began investigating the school after the Education Department’s Student Privacy Policy

“Stop the Steal” national organizer Ali Alexander – who has been accused of asking teen boys for nude pictures – demanded that Donald Trump “use state power to tell civil libertarians to shut up” and that “500,000 people need to be arrested, tried, and possibly killed” in response to the shooting death of fellow “Stop

Ohio middle school teacher Erica Putro was shocked to discover how many of her colleagues didn’t know about the state laws legislators have enacted to restrict the rights of LGBTQ+ students. She worried that a lack of knowledge on the subject would make it much harder for teachers to protect and advocate for their LGBTQ+

How the vote shook out: All House Democrats voted against Boebert’s amendment to the 2027 NDAA that would have banned trans people from serving in the military. The amendment said that trans people “cannot satisfy the rigorous standards necessary for military service.” Democrats were joined by four House Republicans to defeat the measure in a