the gay agenda

LGBTQ politics and policy: the rulings, the bills, the lawsuits and the people making decisions about queer and trans lives. Sourced to the filing, not the press release.

a maryland school district already rewrote its trans student policy for trump's doj in august. the doj sued it anyway, a week before the election. On Oct. 27, 2026, the U.S. Justice Department sued the Anne Arundel County Board of Education in Maryland under FERPA and the PPRA, alleging its gender identity policy lets staff support a student's social transition without telling parents. The district... october 28 a retired supreme court judge says india blocked a gay lawyer from the bench because "the country is not ready." the country, as usual, was not asked. Former Indian Supreme Court judge Sanjay Kishan Kaul told ANI on Oct. 28, 2026 that the real reason the government never cleared Senior Advocate Saurabh Kirpal's appointment to the Delhi High Court was its "perception that the country is not... october 28 she starred in a $1 million ad calling an iowa democrat "just plain dangerous" for kids. her own statement says "i drank and drove with my children in the car." read the room, babe. Shellie Flockhart, a Dallas Center, Iowa city council member, appears in a Congressional Leadership Fund ad that calls Democratic House candidate Sarah Trone Garriott "dangerous" for kids over her votes on transgender issues. The Washington Post reported on Oct. 24,... october 28 a judge just ordered whoever sent texas' fake trans student mailers to answer questions under oath. their lawyer says the return address was the printer's typo. we'd love to meet this printer. On Oct. 27, 2026, Travis County District Judge Jan Soifer ruled that the Transgender Education Network of Texas (TENT) can depose Texas Transgender Student Union LLC, the Wyoming company named on mailers that used TENT's branding, and Infobip, the company... october 28 ken paxton made a children's hospital open a 'detransition clinic,' then posted a link asking you to donate to it. the audacity has a billing code. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced on Oct. 27, 2026 that Texas Children's Hospital in Houston has opened what his office calls the nation's first "Detransition Clinic," a requirement of a settlement announced in May. The hospital paid Texas $10... october 27 the justice department will pay $1 million to study trans people and violent crime. it admits there's barely any evidence and won't fund new data. very normal science. The National Institute of Justice, the Justice Department's research arm, posted a $1 million funding notice on Oct. 9, 2026 titled "Research on Gender Dysphoria and Violent Crime." It seeks analyses of existing datasets, including post-conviction data on incarcerated people,... october 27 tim scott repeated trump's slur for annie andrews on live tv, and made sure to credit trump for it. citing your sources, how scholarly. On Oct. 26, 2026, Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.) referred to Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Annie Andrews by an anti-trans slur on The Charlie Kirk Show on Real America's Voice, saying it was what President Trump calls her. Andrews, a pediatrician,... october 27 a republican governor and the democrat who took his job in 1998 just made a buddy ad for annie andrews. i would watch the sitcom. On Oct. 26, 2026, former South Carolina governors David Beasley, a Republican, and Jim Hodges, a Democrat, endorsed Democrat Annie Andrews for the U.S. Senate in a one-minute video posted by her campaign. Andrews faces Republican Sen. Darline Graham, whom... october 27 washington might make every girl athlete get her sex verified to catch a handful of trans kids. be so for real. Washington's Initiative 638, on the Nov. 3, 2026 ballot, would bar transgender girls from girls' school sports and require a healthcare provider to verify each student's biological sex. Colorado votes on a similar ban the same day; AP says it... october 26 a trans woman was shot in a chicago alley in 2018. eight years later, a jury acquitted the only man ever charged. her mom is still waiting. A Cook County jury on Friday, Oct. 23, 2026 found Tremon Hill, 25, not guilty of first-degree murder in the Aug. 30, 2018 shooting death of Dejanay Stanton, a 24-year-old Black transgender woman, in an alley in Chicago's Bronzeville neighborhood,... october 26 a trans teenager was shot in belle glade in july and almost nobody wrote it down. two people are now charged. Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office deputies arrested Elijah McClorin III and Tomiah Duhart on Oct. 22, 2026, in the July 5 shooting death of Jayla McGee, a 19-year-old transgender woman, in Belle Glade, Florida. McClorin is charged with first-degree murder... october 26 a gay man drove to a missouri park to meet his date. police say his date said "i actually hate gay people" and four men came out of the bushes. Abdulwareth A. Alahmad, 18, of Ellisville, Missouri, is charged with first-degree assault and first-degree property damage motivated by discrimination after police say he lured a gay man to Bluebird Park through a dating site on Oct. 21, 2026, where four... october 26