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This week’s news is heavy on US elections. Check out the Rx Resist links for information about how you can fight for trans people ahead of November 3.

Voters in seven states will decide ballot measures affecting LGBTQ+ people on Nov. 3, most of them aimed at trans youth in school sports and health care.

In Colorado, seven major medical organizations, including the Colorado Medical Society and the state chapters of the American Academy of Pediatrics and the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, came out against Proposition 135’s surgery ban for minors, and Attorney General and gubernatorial nominee Phil Weiser opposes Props 134 and 135. Protect Kids Colorado executive director Erin Lee, who leads the campaigns behind both, said on a far-right podcast in May that she and her husband briefly considered arson against their local school district, and that her lawsuits are “not as immediately gratifying” but more effective. Separately, emails from a man behind the state’s anti-trans measures call a trans lawmaker slurs.

In Washington, more than 100 pediatricians and nurses have joined the campaign against I-638, the measure that would require girls to have their sex medically verified to play school sports. Arizona’s Prop 318 would bar trans students and employees from bathrooms and locker rooms that don’t match their birth certificates, and would apply even to spectators at school games. In Missouri, Republicans are using trans kids to sell Amendment 3, which pairs a near-total abortion ban with a constitutional ban on gender-affirming care for minors.

The DCCC released its first anti-trans ad of the cycle, backing South Carolina Democrat Nancy Lacore. Iowa Democrat Josh Turek is running an ad demanding a federal funding ban on trans care. Rep. Kathy Castor of Florida laughed as she said she opposes trans inclusion in sports, earning a spot in Erin in the Morning’s guide to anti-trans Democrats. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez called those Democrats “shameful” and “wrong” for “scaring so easily.”

On the other side, the Progress Action Fund is going on the offense with ads mocking the GOP’s fixation on trans people, including one that skewers Republicans’ bathroom obsession. And three new polls suggest anti-trans ads may be backfiring on Republicans.

Mailers posing as a trans student resource guide from the Transgender Education Network of Texas (TENT) landed in Texas homes ahead of the election, and the sender has been traced to a Wyoming shell company. TENT, whose staff have faced threats since the impersonation campaign began, petitioned a Travis County court to force disclosure of who is behind it. Sarah Stogner, the Republican district attorney for Loving, Reeves, and Ward counties, has opened a criminal investigation into the mailers as potential forgery.

The Supreme Court rejected the Trump administration’s bid to restrict gender-affirming care in federal prisons, a policy that would have ended surgeries and gradually withdrawn hormones, leaving care in place while litigation continues. The Justice Department’s latest prison sexual abuse reports file trans victims under “other” while singling out trans people as perpetrators.

LAPD data shows anti-trans and anti-gay hate crimes rising in the San Fernando Valley and West Los Angeles, and advocates warn many more may be going unreported. Two Pennsylvania school boards voted to restrict trans student athletes, one of them despite having none.

In British Columbia, queer organizations are sounding the alarm over Conservative anti-trans rhetoric in the wake of an election upset that saw the NDP lose their minority government in favor of a Conservative majority.

The UK Ministry of Defence’s own internal assessment warns that its new trans troop segregation rules could lead to “sex policing” and exclusion. New prison guidance also says trans officers who search prisoners must disclose to their manager that they have transitioned or plan to.

Berlin police now say they seized prescription medications, narcotics, data storage devices, and a four-figure sum of cash in their raid on Casa Kuà, where the center says officers held attendees of a weekly transfem meetup for up to four hours.

New Zealand’s High Court ruled the country’s puberty blocker ban is “unjustified discrimination.” South African nurses are learning to administer lenacapavir, the twice-yearly PrEP injection, while navigating new clinic workflows and patient concerns about injection-site nodules.

Know what’s on the ballot — Uncloseted Media breaks down the anti-trans measures voters in Arizona, Colorado, Missouri, Nebraska, and Washington will decide on Nov. 3, from sports bans to health care restrictions to invasive sex tests.

Phonebank before Nov. 3 — Advocates for Trans Equality is running a national phonebank through Election Day to reach voters on LGBTQIA+ rights.

Brief yourself on Colorado — GLAAD’s fact sheet lays out what Propositions 134 and 135 would do, so you can answer patients, families, and colleagues who have questions before they vote.

Check your candidates’ records — GLAAD’s Ohio Accountability Project compiles fact-based LGBTQ+ records for major midterm candidates, cutting through an unprecedented flood of anti-LGBTQ+ campaign ads.

Bring the dads along — Fathers are the audience most swayed by anti-trans ads, and a new toolkit is built to help them back their trans kids instead.