Trans teen at center of Supreme Court sports case wins West Virginia state title

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Federal appeals court unexpectedly reverses itself, reviving challenge to Pentagon HIV policy

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Trump's FCC is eyeing warnings for trans TV content. Civil rights groups are pushing back

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The DOJ filed 197 pages calling LGBTQ+ protections anti-Christian. Not subtext. The framework. Thirteen million queer adults sit inside that crosshair right now. Wendy Weber breaks down what the Task Force to Eradicate Anti-Christian Bias actually means — and the senator call you make this week.
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The Justice Department published a 197-page document calling LGBTQ+ protections anti-Christian. Bound. Indexed. Posted on a federal website. The cover does not show a knife, but the contents do. This is the Task Force to Eradicate Anti-Christian Bias, and its 197 pages focus almost exclusively on queer civil rights and abortion access, with zero attention to any other faith community. Thirteen million queer adults live inside that crosshair right now. Wendy Weber's unfiltered analysis — and the senator call you make this week — lives in the full piece.
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Trump DOJ forces major Texas children’s hospital to stop trans care & open ‘detransition’ clinic

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Tuesday night at the Tune Inn on Capitol Hill. William Paul, 33, son of Senator Rand Paul, slid onto a stool next to Congressman Mike Lawler and asked if he was Jewish. What followed was a ten-minute drunken tirade — the war in Iran is "all about the gays and the Jews, and I hate them both, and I don't care if they die." He flipped Lawler off, knocked over a barstool, and apologized for the alcohol the next morning. Alcohol doesn't invent the sentence. It removes the social hardware that keeps it inside the mouth. The hate was already there. He apologized for being drunk. Not for the wish.
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This heartwarming Mother’s Day ad featuring a trans teen and his mom might make you cry

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She pulled Heather Has Two Mommies from the shelf, held it against her chest, and decided to leave it there. Third grade. Tuesday morning. The DOJ had just announced she might be a federal civil rights problem. Thirty-six Illinois school districts under investigation. No specific incidents cited — they didn't need any. The investigation is the punishment. Districts fold preemptively. Teachers self-censor. Librarians pull books rather than fight a federal probe with a school board's legal budget. Lambda Legal, the ACLU of Illinois, and Equality Illinois have signaled coordinated pushback. The body knows the sound of a federal letter the way a deer knows a footstep. Surviving the last hunt is not the same as being safe in the next.

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