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 denver judge closed the courtroom so colorado's doctors could testify without their names on it Children's Hospital Colorado is on trial for contempt because it still is not providing the care the state Supreme Court ordered it to provide in May. On Thursday its lawyers revealed a second federal investigation, and the judge cleared the... september 12 trump told a half-empty arena in dallas that we are one of his great sound bites On Wednesday night in Dallas the president explained his own trick out loud: he saves the trans attacks for about a week before an election, and he is only going early this time because he is worried Democrats might move.... september 12 connecticut children's signed away a decade of trans care, and the fine was $60,000 The hospital's deal with the Trump administration was announced in August with no terms attached. Connecticut lawmakers threatened a subpoena, got the documents, and handed them to a reporter. Ten years. Sixty thousand dollars. And a clause that lets the... september 12 james talarico gave away the trans kids on wednesday and ken paxton deepfaked him on thursday anyway The Texas Democrat running for Senate told Fox News he would oppose trans athletes in girls' sports, and said no, he no longer believes there are six genders. The next day his opponent released an AI-fabricated video of a speech... september 11 nine out of ten queer organizations on earth have lost funding, and four in ten may not survive it Outright International surveyed 229 groups in 94 countries. 90 percent have lost, had suspended or had cut funding since January 2025. Half lost more than half their budget. Only 3 percent call themselves stable. More than half named a United... september 11 nobody will be charged for the lie that took pete buttigieg's kids away for a night In June a stranger with a documented history of hallucinations called in a child welfare complaint about Pete Buttigieg. Police and a caseworker came to the house. His four-year-old twins slept at their grandparents. An Indiana prosecutor has now decided... september 11 the pentagon is reading medical records to find the trans troops it missed Federal News Network reports the military is searching protected health and personnel databases to identify service members with current or past gender dysphoria. Several hundred people have been outed in two months, cadets included. The files were handed over as... september 8 Mount Sinai beat the DOJ in court twice. then it handed over the trans kids anyway. A federal judge blocked the subpoena. The Second Circuit backed her up on August 27. Eight days later Mount Sinai signed a deal with the Justice Department to end gender-affirming care for minors and pay $2 million toward treating people... september 7 somebody pulled the Pride memorial tree out of the ground. the next day the AfD won a German state. A maple planted in the Tiergarten for the victims of July's Pride attack was ripped out of the soil on the eve of the Saxony-Anhalt election. On Sunday night the AfD took 44.5 percent. Berlin says it will replant the... september 6 one in three foster kids is queer. the rule that protected them is gone. A 2024 rule gave LGBTQ kids in foster care a way out of a hostile placement and barred conversion therapy. A court gutted it, then RFK Jr. erased it. CNN put numbers on what that means. september 6 21 attorneys general and a governor just sued over the Medicaid trans care ban HHS wrote a rule that pulls federal money from gender-affirming care for anyone under 18 on Medicaid. It takes effect October 13. On Wednesday, half the country sued. september 6 Ecuador just banned single gay people from adopting. the vote was 118 to nothing. A law sold as adoption reform bars single lesbian, gay and bisexual people from adopting, and lets the state strip parents of custody for supporting a trans kid. Not one legislator voted against it. september 6