One more thing: the payment for my stay in Mexico City during the WPATH Symposium came due October 1. It’s $9,150 MXN, around $500 USD. If you’ve been meaning to chip in to fund my reporting of the largest international transgender health conference in the world, now is the time.

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I’m so excited to bring what I learn to you, readers. I will be producing new articles for the newsletter again in 2027 and expect to fill my content calendar for the year with data, interviews, and collaborations featuring WPATH presenters.

Dozens of protesters with ACT UP New York and the Gender Liberation Movement picketed NewYork-Presbyterian Thursday, alleging the hospital quietly stopped accepting new minor patients and warning it not to follow NYU Langone and Mount Sinai into a paid deal with the administration. Four New Hampshire families sued HHS in federal court to protect their daughters' puberty blockers before Medicaid and CHIP funding cuts take effect October 13. At the Second Circuit, Aetna defended its categorical exclusion of facial gender-affirming surgery as "cosmetic," appealing a Connecticut injunction that found trans patients likely entitled to individualized medical-necessity reviews under Section 1557.

After 14 months offline, the 988 Lifeline's LGBTQ+ youth "Press 3" option returned without the Trevor Project, and asked whether counselors will use trans callers' names and pronouns, HHS answered only with its "gender ideology extremism" line. The Education Department formally rescinded the 2024 rule and restored the 2020 Title IX framework, stripping explicit gender identity and sexual orientation protections from federal regulations.

Nearly 100 community HIV-prevention organizations lost their federal grants as the administration redirected Ending the HIV Epidemic dollars to health departments under no requirement to pass funding through, stripping those groups of 340B eligibility on top. Senate Leadership Fund ads accusing Sherrod Brown of "forcing" childhood surgeries feature a detransitioner who isn't from Ohio and had her mastectomy at 19, in Texas.

A new Movement Advancement Project report charts anti-queer extremism's acceleration and its tight focus on trans people, while MAP's state equality maps track where those policies have landed.

In the UK, the equalities minister doubled down on trans exclusion from single-sex spaces at Labour's conference as advocates pressed for provisions for trans survivors of abuse. Far-right activists from the U.S. and Latin America, backed by current and former Trump officials, are building a UN coalition to counter the LGBTI Core Group and coordinate votes against sexual and reproductive rights.

Gilead's lenacapavir licensing shuts out at least 26 countries from roughly $40-a-year generics, including Mexico, Brazil, Argentina, and Peru, while MSF says it still can't buy the drug directly.

Push your medical society — The Colorado Medical Society's board voted to oppose Initiative 110, the anti-trans surgery measure on November's ballot, on the principle that medical decisions belong in the exam room, and every state society facing a similar measure can take the same stand.

Back a national ban — A conversion therapy survivor's petition asks Australia's federal government for a nationwide ban that rules out "informed consent" and "sustained effort" loopholes, since protections now depend on which state you live in.

Bring the Bill home — Lambda Legal's new LGBTQ+ Bill of Rights pairs its lawsuits with model state legislation on health, education, family, and democracy, starting in 20 states, with organizing resources rolling out through October.