LGBTQ Issues & Rights News

Emily Fitzgerald/Washington State Standard July 17, 2025 / 8:44 am Specialty services for LGBTQ+ youth will be removed from the national 988 suicide and crisis hotline on Thursday, July 17, following a federal decision announced last month. The hotline will continue to offer confidential, round-the-clock support in Washington through the state’s three contracted crisis centers, but…

The federal lawsuit seeks to withhold $3.8 billion that’s set aside for the state for the remainder of the 2025 fiscal year. By Helen Jeong • Published July 9, 2025 • Updated on July 9, 2025 at 4:39 pm The U.S. Department of Justice Wednesday threatened to withhold billions of dollars in federal funding as it filed a lawsuit against the California Department of Education…

A grant to help churches better minister to LGBTQ+ people prompted fury. A decision to return the grant then spurred disappointment. By Raquel Villatoro, The Waco Bridge July 18, 20251 PM Central As a queer kid growing up in a Southern Baptist church in rural South Carolina, AB Waters felt heartbreak after coming out. They lost…

The state attorney general alleged Vero Beach Vice Mayor Linda Moore exposed children to a “sexualized performance” during a Pride event. July 22, 2025, 4:23 PM CDT By Jo Yurcaba Florida’s attorney general announced Tuesday that he has opened an investigation into the vice mayor of Vero Beach over a drag show held last month. Attorney…

July 8, 2025 5:00 AM ET By Kate Wells The Trump administration has launched investigations into health systems in what legal experts say is an effort to allow providers to refuse care for transgender patients on religious or moral grounds. One of the most recent actions by the Department of Health and Human Services, launched in…

Wisconsin Supreme Court rules 4-3 that legislative committee’s rejection of conversion therapy ban was unconstitutional, allowing state to implement the ban. Updated: 8:57 AM CDT Jul 8, 2025 The Wisconsin Supreme Court cleared the way Tuesday for the state to institute a ban on conversion therapy. The court ruled that a Republican-controlled legislative committee’s rejection…

by: David Rees Posted: Jul 10, 2025 / 07:00 AM EDT COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) — Northeast Ohio residents are calling on Cuyahoga County leaders to join municipalities across the state in outlawing anti-LGBTQ+ practices known as “conversion therapy.” The Cuyahoga County Council introduced an ordinance on Tuesday to prohibit healthcare professionals from engaging in conversion therapy with…

Updated July 22, 2025 10:01 PM ET  By The Associated Press COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — The U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee has effectively barred transgender women from competing in women’s sports, telling the federations overseeing swimming, athletics and other sports it has an “obligation to comply” with an executive order issued by President Trump. The…

Senate version of budget reconciliation bill removed the prohibition on use of federal funds for care, but some in House want it restored before giving final approval By: Danielle J. Brown – July 3, 2025 7:37 am As Congress wrangles over a budget reconciliation bill that would deny federal funds to pay for gender-affirming care, Lee Blinder appreciates…

June 18, 2025 4:59 PM ET By Jonathan Lambert A drug with the potential to drastically curb the HIV epidemic just cleared its first regulatory hurdle. On Wednesday, the Food and Drug Administration approved lenacapavir for the prevention of HIV. Clinical trial data from last year suggest just two injections a year provide near-complete protection…