With Lambda Legal suing to block the DOJ from seizing patient lists and trans families suing hospitals — including NYU Langone and Stanford Medicine — to resist criminal subpoenas for gender-affirming care records, the contest over trans youth medical privacy is heading toward a June 10 court deadline that will determine whether the executive branch can force providers to hand over patient names.

A sweeping new federal rule from the Trump administration would require every hospital, university, nonprofit, school district, and state government that receives federal funding to deny that trans people exist as a condition of accessing those funds — a 400-page proposed regulation that, unlike an executive order, would require substantial effort by a future administration to undo.

The Senate HELP Committee hearing on gender-affirming care for minors featured Chloe Cole and Do No Harm's Dr. Kurt Miceli testifying against trans youth care, while senators including Tammy Baldwin pushed back sharply on whether parents or politicians should govern medical decisions for trans children.

A federal judge allowed 16 states and D.C. to proceed with their challenge to the Trump administration's anti-trans campaign, enabling the coalition to contest federal efforts to investigate providers and restrict access to care. Hawai'i's governor signed a trans shield law protecting families and providers who seek or deliver gender-affirming care, framed as an exercise of fundamental parental rights. Colorado enacted a conversion therapy ban — the first since the Supreme Court ruling legalizing the practice — using a private right of action to work around the decision.

New York City announced plans to launch a city-run trans clinic in Queens, but it appears they will not be offering services to trans youth, as hospitals across the state face mounting federal pressure to curtail adolescent gender-affirming care.

Centene Corporation’s insurance provider Ambetter Health is denying hormone therapy to trans patients across 19 states, in what investigators link to the administration's "MAHA medicine" push — a major access barrier for trans patients that seems likely to spread to other marketplace insurance plans.

Hundreds rallied on Christopher Street to mark 45 years since the start of the AIDS crisis, staging a die-in against cuts to HIV treatment, prevention, housing, and care, while the AIDS Healthcare Foundation announced 3 million people globally now in its care programs — a historic milestone set against the backdrop of ongoing federal cuts to HIV infrastructure.

Trans rights groups condemned the UK Code of Practice as "cruel and inhumane," warning it will increase discrimination, exclusion, and risk for trans people across public life, including access to vital services, rolling back more than two decades of progress.

South Africa began rolling out lenacapavir, the twice-yearly HIV prevention injection, becoming the ninth African country to do so, though U.S. aid cuts threaten continued access. And over 100 African groups urged Ghana's president to return the bill that passed last week to Parliament, warning that criminalization of LGBTQ+ people carries downstream implications for HIV access and healthcare delivery across the continent.

Help fight the UK’s EHRC Code — QueerAF's explainer on the parliamentary motion — signed by 93 MPs — to disapprove the EHRC Code of Practice recommending segregation of trans people from single-sex spaces, including how disapproval motions work and what pressure readers can apply to their MPs.

Sign the Cleveland Gender Freedom petition — The city's Gender Freedom Policy, which protects trans residents from discrimination, needs more than 5,000 signatures to trigger a City Council vote, and the petition needs them now. Share with your Cleveland colleagues!

Stand up for HIV funding — Ten HIV/AIDS activists were arrested on Capitol Hill after interrupting a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing during Secretary of State Marco Rubio's testimony, the latest direct action in the sustained campaign against federal cuts to HIV treatment, prevention, housing, and care. They need your support.