Last week, the Trevor Project released its 2025 National Survey on the Mental Health of LGBTQ+ Young People this week, finding that 36% of LGBTQ+ youth seriously considered suicide in the past year, that 1 in 10 attempted it, that 90% said anti-LGBTQ+ laws and policies caused them stress or anxiety, and that trans and nonbinary youth denied hormone access were nearly twice as likely to have attempted suicide in the past year as those currently taking hormones — with a dedicated breakdown of the survey's transgender healthcare findings available separately.

Weeks after a federal judge voided the Kennedy Declaration and blocked any similar policy from taking effect, no hospital has yet reopened a trans youth healthcare program it suspended in response to federal pressure. The DOJ's medical records campaign continued to face resistance on multiple fronts: Rhode Island's Office of Child Advocate filed an emergency motion to quash a federal subpoena demanding five years of trans youth patient records from Rhode Island Hospital, while the DOJ separately moved to drop its appeal in the CHOP case, a maneuver CHOP attorneys argued may be an attempt to reroute the fight to the more DOJ-friendly Northern District of Texas.

Children's Minnesota filed a motion to quash its own DOJ subpoena, arguing in court that the demands are "aimed at regulating (and chilling) a particular type of medical care, with the goal of eliminating it nationwide" rather than investigating any specific legal violation. The DOJ is also offering $25,000 signing bonuses to attorneys willing to pursue trans healthcare investigations, part of an apparent effort to rebuild staff capacity after the department's attorney numbers fell from roughly 10,000 to 5,500 under the prior attorney general.

A federal judge in D.C. delivered a pair of major legal victories for WPATH and the Endocrine Society this week, blocking the FTC from enforcing investigative demands against either organization and finding extensive evidence — which the court described as "wafer-thin justifications" for the probes — that they were motivated by hostility to gender-affirming care rather than any legitimate consumer protection purpose.

Tennessee Governor Bill Lee signed HB 754, a law creating what amounts to a public database of trans people, requiring clinicians to file monthly reports on trans patients' medical details, medications, dosages, dates of care, and other diagnoses, all of which will be released publicly in raw, un-aggregated, downloadable form beginning December 2026 — a format researchers say is trivially reversible to identify individual people.

Ohio Rep. Josh Williams — who has already introduced more than 100 bills in the current legislative session — introduced HB 838, which would strip Medicaid coverage for most gender-affirming care and financially penalize cities that maintain trans-inclusive employee health plans, his sixth explicitly anti-LGBTQ+ bill in this session.

A long-stalled New Jersey bill providing criminal and civil protections for gender-affirming care providers and their patients advanced to a Senate committee vote this week, two years after it was first introduced.

Legal scholars at Assigned Media convened a roundtable examining whether the Supreme Court's ruling in Chiles v. Salazar treating conversion therapy as protected speech is legally consistent, with one contributor noting that the majority's reasoning would likely require striking down bans on gender-affirming talk therapy as well.

International

An Alberta judge dismissed an application by Egale Canada and Skipping Stone to amend their court challenge to the province's gender-affirming care ban, ruling that because the law relates to health and safety it falls within provincial jurisdiction — a decision both groups say they plan to appeal, while their original Charter challenge remains on hold pending a Supreme Court of Canada ruling in a parallel Saskatchewan case.

The UK's Department of Health and Social Care has escalated its language further, telling QueerAF that providing puberty blockers to trans children was "appalling," even as the BMA's own report found that the 2024 Cass Review simplified complex findings, downplayed benefits, and that the government's implementation of its recommendations went beyond what the review actually recommended. The British Medical Association reversed its earlier opposition to the Cass Review, with the union's lead reviewer telling The Guardian that Dr. Hilary Cass "has been vindicated" — but the BMA stopped short of endorsing the government's ban on puberty blockers, arguing that prescribing decisions should remain with doctors rather than politicians.

Activist Mpho Buntse wrote in MambaOnline about the resurgence of well-funded anti-gender and anti-queer movements across Africa, tracing their roots to colonial-era laws and describing their relationship to global conservative networks as a direct threat to democratic norms on the continent.

Australia's Medical Board and Ahpra issued a joint statement pushing back against The Australian newspaper's reporting on the disciplinary action against anti-trans psychiatrist Andrew Amos, calling out a pattern of coverage with the potential to undermine public trust in medical regulation. Victoria's Commissioner for LGBTQIA+ Communities Joe Ball delivered a plenary address at the RANZCP 2026 Congress calling on psychiatrists to keep the child at the center of clinical care and resist the pressure to let political noise drive them away from evidence-based practice.

File your FCC comment — by May 22, the Federal Communications Commission is soliciting public input on whether to require warning labels for TV programming featuring transgender and gender-nonbinary characters; GLAAD describes the inquiry as an attempt to pressure networks into compliance with the administration's political agenda, and filing a comment in Proceeding 19-41 is one of the most direct ways to push back right now.