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A place for news and opinions on the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer/questioning communities.


Sadly, the Court’s decision in Chiles v. Salazar is correct.


The policy fight is moving well beyond sports and youth medicine. The political response hasn’t caught up.

The Court’s latest ruling invokes a power that corrupts every court that wields it.


Plaintiffs from the religious right are asking the Republican justices to seize control of public schools.


Trans athletes always faced a difficult road in this Court.


Trans advocates would face a difficult road in the sports cases, even if the Court weren’t dominated by Republicans.


Guns, God, gays, and abortion dominate the Trump era Supreme Court’s docket.


The debate over youth gender identity polling, explained.


In his second term, Trump’s rhetoric and policies regarding the trans community have become far more menacing.

It’s not millennial cringe to wonder if you can enjoy the work of problematic artists.


The Republican justices seem eager to kill state bans on anti-LGBTQ conversion therapy.


A new Supreme Court case could make therapists immune from regulation.


What the Supreme Court plans to do to America in its upcoming term.


The court finally lifted a two-year ban on drag performances.


The Ivy League agreements with Trump are a danger to all of higher ed.


The Republican justices’ decision fundamentally altered how public schools must operate.


What the hell did the Court just do to equal protection law?

Teenagers today are dating less than ever. What’s really happening?


Ames v. Ohio was an easy case, even if it touched upon contentious issues.


An exhausting — if not exhaustive — timeline of J.K. Rowling’s transphobia.


Libby v. Fecteau is an awful case about an anti-trans lawmaker who nonetheless needed to win.


Trump’s lawyers asked the Supreme Court to reinstate his ban on trans military service, after a lower court blocked it.


To defend democracy, the courts must rule in favor of a lawmaker who bullied a high school student.


Trump’s lawyers asked the Supreme Court to reinstate his ban on trans military service, after a lower court blocked it.


Many of the justices seemed eager to impose impossible burdens on schools.


An influential Christian right law firm asks the justices to impose an impossible burden on teachers.


The Court will decide if therapists have a right to practice anti-LGBTQ “conversion therapy.”


Far-right gays are ascendant everywhere but here.


The first DEI case of Trump’s second term turns out to be an easy win against a rule that no one likes.


Ames v. Ohio should be an easy — and potentially unanimously decided — case, assuming the Court doesn’t overreach.


“Can I leave the country, and how can I leave the country?”


An executive order barring trans people from openly serving in the military isn’t really about their fitness to do so.


The Court appears likely to uphold bans on gender-affirming care, and may gut the rules barring all forms of sex discrimination in the process.


A new bathroom rule only adds to the party’s anti-trans broadsides.


The Biden administration proposed a change to school athletics that sought a compromise.


The legal question in United States v. Skrmetti is whether the word “all” means “all.” There’s no guarantee that this Court will say that it does.


Trump could weaponize Title IX against trans kids.


The Trump campaign’s anti-trans advertising is pure scapegoating — with a bigger, sinister purpose.


The justices return to Washington after an unforgivable betrayal.


What to know about Meta’s new restrictions on young people’s social media use.