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arizona won its trans birth certificate case today. trans arizonans may have won it too. On Oct. 6, 2026, the Ninth Circuit in Roe v. Johnston reversed an injunction against Arizona's surgery requirement for changing the sex marker on a birth certificate, holding the law does not violate equal protection. But the panel said Arizona... october 6 luca guadagnino cast spider-man as sam altman and the first review called it a "demon twink." we're seated. Artificial, Luca Guadagnino's film about OpenAI's board firing and then rehiring CEO Sam Altman, premiered at the New York Film Festival on Oct. 5, 2026, with Andrew Garfield as Altman. The Hollywood Reporter's review said Guadagnino cast Altman as the... october 6 trump keeps having to tell melania's friends that the treasury secretary is gay. what a job. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, the first openly gay person to lead the Treasury, told Mike Allen on The Axios Show, released Oct. 3, 2026, that President Trump jokes: "You're breaking Melania's friends' hearts. They see you on TV and they... october 6 there are 14 out lgbtq people in congress right now. one of them only gets four months. we checked who's on your ballot. Fourteen openly LGBTQ people serve in the 119th Congress as of October 2026, all of them Democrats: Sen. Tammy Baldwin and Reps. Mark Takano, Mark Pocan, Angie Craig, Sharice Davids, Chris Pappas, Ritchie Torres, Robert Garcia, Becca Balint, Eric Sorensen,... october 6 australian soldiers convicted for gay sex can finally have it wiped from their records. it only took 34 years. we'll take it. Australia opened applications on Oct. 6, 2026 for current and former Australian Defence Force personnel, or the families of those who have died, to have historical convictions for consensual homosexual activity extinguished from their service records. Veterans' Affairs Minister Matt... october 6 a televangelist who went to prison for fraud has died at 86. his ex-wife is the one the gays still light candles for. Jim Bakker, the televangelist who built the PTL Club and Heritage USA and was convicted of fraud in 1989, died Monday, Oct. 5, 2026, at 86, his wife Lori Bakker said. His first wife, Tammy Faye, who divorced him in... october 6 trump called a pediatrician and mom of three a trans slur, three times, in one post. the polls have the race tied. smells like panic. On Oct. 5, 2026, Donald Trump used an anti-transgender slur three times in a Truth Social post about Annie Andrews, a pediatrician and the Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate in South Carolina, who is not transgender. Trump was backing Republican... october 6 brazil just sent three trans women to congress, and one of them got 1.6 million votes. we would like to be governed like this. In Brazil's Oct. 4, 2026 general election, Natal city councilwoman Thabatta Pimenta (PV) became the first trans woman elected federal deputy from Rio Grande do Norte and the Northeast, with 92,743 votes. Erika Hilton (PSOL-SP) was re-elected with 1,596,472 votes... october 6 republicans are spending $10 million in ohio on an ad about surgery on kids. the woman in it was 19. math is hard. The Senate Leadership Fund is spending nearly $10 million on ads attacking Democrat Sherrod Brown in Ohio's Senate race against Jon Husted, featuring detransitioner Soren Aldaco. Court records show Aldaco had her double mastectomy in Texas at 19. On Oct.... october 6 samuel alito says gay marriage is different from roe because we actually went and got married. the joint checking account is doing the lord's work. In a CBS News interview with Jan Crawford published Oct. 4, 2026, Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito, who dissented in Obergefell v. Hodges, said the same-sex marriage ruling differs from Roe v. Wade because "there was a lot of reliance"... october 6 the agency that polices workplace discrimination is being sued for it by its own trans director, and a judge just let the case go ahead. sit with that. On Oct. 2, 2026, Magistrate Judge Thomas S. Hixson of the Northern District of California denied the EEOC's motion to dismiss Seawright v. Lucas. Marc Seawright, the agency's former Director of Information Governance and Strategy and a transgender man, alleges... october 5 a georgia high school told a trans girl she could run for homecoming king instead. be so serious. Riley Williams, a transgender senior at Charles R. Drew High School in Clayton County, Georgia, was barred from running for homecoming queen. Clayton County Public Schools said it follows students' birth gender for homecoming court under the current federal interpretation... october 5