NYU Langone has become the latest New York institution to strike a deal with Trump’s DOJ to end gender-affirming care for minors, following Mount Sinai’s capitulation two weeks ago and citing the need to shield patients, providers, and the institution from prolonged litigation. The ripple effects are already visible upstate, where for trans youth in the Hudson Valley, care is getting harder to reach as providers pull back under the same federal pressure. In North Dakota, the state Supreme Court upheld its ban on gender-affirming care for minors.

The FDA has finally acknowledged an estrogen patch shortage — first flagged by pharmacists back in January — and says all six manufacturers are ramping up production; the coverage frames it as a menopause story, but transdermal estradiol is also a mainstay of feminizing hormone therapy, so prescribers should have backup regimens ready for both patient groups.

On the campaign trail, a new round of attack ads is blanketing the airwaves against Democrats including Talarico, Peltola, El-Sayed, Turek, and Brown — proof that Talarico’s recent pledge to back a national surgery ban for minors bought him exactly nothing. In Texas, Republicans are running Spanish-language anti-trans ads, recycling a Trump line as they struggle to win Hispanic voters. Even the American Principles Project, one of the anti-trans movement’s chief architects, is now warning Republicans that targeting trans people “may not be sufficient” to win in 2026 — not a change of heart, just an admission the playbook isn’t landing.

Some local governments are making protective moves: Denver is advancing measures to shield trans residents’ data from collection and out-of-state government requests, and Seattle has added polyamory, pansexuality, and asexuality to the protected classes in its anti-discrimination law.

Fiji has declared a national crisis over rising HIV cases and is redirecting health resources toward containing the spread, while in South Africa mpox cases are climbing, mostly in Cape Town — MambaOnline’s explainer covers symptoms, transmission, and prevention for LGBTQ+ people. In Niger, the explicit criminalization of asexuality is, as QueerAF argues, part of a widening global conservative push that should concern everyone.

Turkey’s crackdown escalated, with authorities arresting journalists and activists by the dozens on obscenity charges and shutting down hundreds of social media accounts, on the heels of last week’s 162 raid arrests. And in Hungary, Human Rights Watch welcomed reforms to anti-LGBT laws while stressing that significant work remains.

As Massachusetts Hospitals Bow to Trump, These Organizers Are Fighting to Protect Trans Futures: As the state’s hospitals scale back youth care under federal pressure, organizers, providers, and trans patients are building a coalition to protect access — a follow-up to this month’s arrests in Boston, and a model for pressure campaigns that bring clinicians in rather than leaving them on the sidelines.

Fact Check: No, the Census Won’t Be Used to Make a List of Trans Americans: Transitics News pushes back on viral claims about the 2030 Census — a useful reference for providers fielding patient anxiety about federal data collection.