LGBTQ Issues & Rights News

  By Lucio Vasquez | The Texas Newsroom Published October 9, 2025 at 12:31 PM CDT Gov. Greg Abbott has ordered the Texas Department of Transportation to make sure cities and counties remove rainbow crosswalks and other non-standard road markings that, according to the governor, promote “political ideologies.” “Texans expect their taxpayer dollars to be…

37 percent of homeless youth identify as LGBTQ, up from 2024 October 8, 2025 By Lou Chibbaro Jr. The annual 2025 Point-In-Time (PIT) count of homeless people in the District of Columbia conducted in January shows there was an overall 9 percent decrease in homelessness in the city compared to 2024. But the annual count,…

Updated October 7, 2025 7:31 PM ET Nina Totenberg The Supreme Court seemed ready on Tuesday to side with an Evangelical Christian therapist who objects to a Colorado law that she maintains violates her free speech rights. If the court rules in her favor, the decision could invalidate laws in some two dozen states that…

Uthmeier plus 21 states believe the U.S. Supreme Court should affirm right to know gender-statuses at school. By: Liv Caputo October 6, 2025 4:37 pm Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier led 21 states in a brief filed with the U.S. Supreme Court Monday supporting a Tallahassee mother who claimed her rights were violated when a…

The cost of this new policy will be measured in human lives. Faefyx Collington (They/Them) October 1, 2025, 11:00 am EDT Doctors at the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) have been instructed to stop providing forms and support letters that refer veterans to private medical providers for gender-affirming care. Veterans were already unable to receive gender-affirming…

By Darryl Coote Sept. 30, 2025 / 11:45 PM Sept. 30 (UPI) — The Trump administration on Tuesday declared that Minnesota’s policies allowing transgender athletes to play on teams that match with their gender identity violated federal law, marking the latest escalation in a feud between the federal government and the Democratic-led state. The ruling from the…

Critics warn labeling trans people extremist fuels political attacks amid growing anti-trans rhetoric by the media and federal government. September 29, 2025 By Joe Reberkenny The nation’s leading LGBTQ advocacy groups are sounding the alarm over reports that the FBI may soon classify transgender people as a threat group — a move advocates say would…

Lorenzo Gomez/Cronkite News Sept. 25, 2025 PHOENIX – Word spread fast of a shooting threat made toward Cruisin’ 7th, a gay bar located just outside the Melrose District — an area with a high concentration of LGBTQ+ businesses. Mia Inez Adams, 66, was one of the first to receive the news the afternoon of Sept. 17 after…

Senate Bill 8, which goes into effect on Dec. 4, restricts bathroom use in government buildings and schools to the sex assigned at birth. By Ayden Runnels Aug. 28, 2025, 7:15 p.m. Central Updated Sept. 22, 2025, 5:36 p.m. Central Gov. Greg Abbott on Monday signed a bill that would restrict which restrooms transgender people can use…

By Devan Cole, John Fritze Updated Sep 19, 2025 The Trump administration asked the Supreme Court on Friday to let it limit passport sex markers for transgender and nonbinary individuals, its latest effort to get the justices to intervene in a fight over restrictive policies targeting LGBTQ+ Americans. Just after taking office in January, President…