The Trump administration is now arguing in court that gender-affirming care isn't healthcare at all, using its policy denying that care to trans federal prisoners as a vehicle to ban the same treatments for every trans adult. Federal Judge Mustafa Kasubhai's permanent injunction against the Kennedy Declaration was supposed to free hospitals to resume trans youth care, but most of the major systems that capitulated last winter won't say if they'll reopen those programs. California Attorney General Rob Bonta told providers in his state to resume care now and signaled he is prepared to take further legal action against any forthcoming federal rules.

The only transgender care panel at this week's Pediatric Academic Societies meeting in Boston is chaired by HHS Gender Dysphoria Report co-author Moti Gorin and stacked with academics tied to SPLC-designated hate group SEGM, including Riittakerttu Kaltiala. The Southern Poverty Law Center published a Hatewatch tracing how Genspect's "Detrans Awareness Day" pulled in FTC Chair Andrew Ferguson and Assistant Secretary for Health Brian Christine, who reportedly vowed not to stop until gender-affirming care is "eradicated like the plague it is." Days later, the DOJ announced a federal grand jury indictment of SPLC itself over the paid informants the organization once used to infiltrate violent extremist groups.

The FBI dispatched a government plane to Cuba to retrieve a 10-year-old trans girl whose trans mother had taken her there for care during a custody dispute. Texas Tech University adopted a sweeping new policy phasing out all teaching, research, coursework, and degrees touching on gender identity or sexual orientation by June 15. Tennessee Republicans advanced a flurry of bills, including a sex-redefinition statute, a bathroom and shelter ban, an honorifics law, and HB754/SB676, which functions as a de facto registry of trans patients by requiring providers to report demographic and treatment data to the state.

Audit your license plate. A LOOKOUT and Uncloseted Media investigation traces more than $7 million from state specialty plate programs into Alliance Defending Freedom, the Montana Family Foundation, Florida Family Voice, the American Family Association, and the Foundation for Moral Law — the outfits behind state bathroom bans, conversion therapy litigation, "Don't Say Gay" laws, and gender-affirming care bans.

Make publishers answer for harm. A trans teen's mother used the NYT shareholder meeting last week to ask publisher A.G. Sulzberger what accountability the paper has for coverage cited by the Trump administration, Justice Thomas in his Skrmetti concurrence, and SEGM amicus briefs. More of us need to be bringing this kind of accountability to bad actors where it counts — their wallets.

Well Beings News turns one year old this week, marking the first issue I sent in preparation for my June 2025 launch. To commemorate the occasion, I revisited some of the pieces I keep coming back to, creating a season-by-season chronicle of what working through a genocide has done to the field, to the people I've interviewed, and to me.