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 republican attacked this iowa democrat over "sex changes" in june. now he's running on the same two words. sir. Josh Turek, the Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate in Iowa, released a 30-second ad on Oct. 24, 2026 saying he opposes "males competing in female sports" and is "against taxpayers paying for sex changes too." In June, PolitiFact rated False... october 26 they moved a high school cross-country meet and held a rally against one trans girl. she came second. her team won. A transgender runner on the Camas High School girls cross-country team placed second at the 4A Greater St. Helens League district meet in Camas, Washington, on Oct. 21, 2026, and Camas won the girls team title, the Seattle Times reported.... october 23 a democrat ran an ad against trans athletes. trump called her the slur again anyway. we could have told her. At a rally for Sen. Darline Graham near Clemson on Oct. 21, 2026, Donald Trump again called Democratic Senate nominee Annie Andrews an anti-trans slur, called her "a mutilizer" and said she should lose her medical license, two weeks after... october 23 three men say lindsey graham paid them for sex while he voted against us. his sister won't "entertain" it. we'll do it carefully. The CLOSETocracy, a documentary released on YouTube on Oct. 22, 2026, by The Young Turks and Swamp Watch Studios, features three men who allege the late Sen. Lindsey Graham paid them for sex, including one who says he was 17.... october 23 aoc says she backs trans women because she's a girl's girl. finally, a politician who talks like the group chat. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez told a crowd at the State Theatre in Portland, Maine, on Oct. 22, 2026, while campaigning for Democratic Senate nominee Troy Jackson, that she supports the rights of trans women "because I'm a girl's girl," tying trans... october 23 a married gay couple says coworkers on a maine solar job threw food at them. guess who got fired. Wilmer Muchacho and Jose Cordero, a married couple, sued solar installer Centre Electric in federal court in Maine on Oct. 14, 2026. They allege coworkers at job sites in Holden and Mattawamkeag called them slurs and threw food at them,... october 22 the fake trans mailers in texas had a tracking number. it leads to a vendor whose only federal political client on record is the house gop's campaign arm. they say it wasn't them. Mailers from a fake "Texas Transgender Student Union" carried a mailer ID tied to SnailWorks, a Maryland mail-tracking company, the Texas Tribune reported, and SnailWorks confirmed to the Houston Chronicle it was hired to track them without naming the client.... october 22 the supreme court just told trump that trans prisoners keep their hormones. only two justices said they'd have let him, and you already know their names. On Oct. 21, 2026, the U.S. Supreme Court denied the Trump administration's emergency request in Trump v. Kingdom to enforce a Bureau of Prisons policy ending hormone treatment and social accommodations for about 1,000 transgender federal inmates. Justices Clarence Thomas... october 21 trump called the lesbian judge blocking his golf course a "crazed lunatic." she says she's getting death threats now. over a golf course. On Oct. 19, 2026, President Trump called U.S. District Judge Ana Reyes a "crazed lunatic" on Truth Social over her order pausing work on the East Potomac Golf Links in Washington. At the end of a seven-hour hearing that day,... october 21 a "texas transgender student union" mailed trans resource guides to republican households. its headquarters is a ups store mailbox. a trans student union, in this economy? "Texas Trans & LGBTQ+ Student Resource Guide" mailers signed by a "Texas Transgender Student Union" reached Texas households, many of them past Republican voters, around the start of early voting in October 2026. The Houston Chronicle and KXAN report the... october 21 the federal workplace-discrimination agency promised a christian business club it won't chase some trans complaints against its members. any future members too. sure. In an Oct. 19, 2026 letter, Reps. Bobby Scott and Mark Takano asked EEOC Chair Andrea Lucas to explain an August settlement in Christian Employers Alliance v. EEOC in which the agency agreed not to pursue certain gender identity discrimination... october 20 the gop guy who posted "teach kids to change gears not genders" flipped his car on saturday night. gears, shawn. Shawn Oliver, the Republican nominee for lieutenant governor of Massachusetts, suspended his campaign after a crash in New Bedford late on Saturday, Oct. 17, 2026, in which police say his car overturned and five cars were involved. He was charged... october 20