Seasons

Fox News host Jesse Watters claimed that a video from a U.K. activist was proof that trans and nonbinary people are now identifying as seasons — but they're really not.

Kansas

A gender-affirming care ban failed to pass in Kansas as a result of two Republican state representatives who broke ranks with their party to vote against the legislation. Republican state Reps. Susan Concannon and Jesse Borjon shocked the legislature by deciding to vote alongside Democrats against overriding Gov. Laura Kelly's (D). 

Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO)

When Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) visited George Washington University (GW) yesterday to complain about a pro-Palestinian encampment there, students repeatedly shouted “Beetlejuice!” at her. The jeer referenced the time she was kicked out of a theatre during a performance of Beetlejuice: The Musical after she was caught vaping, groping her date, and flipping off an usher — and it’s not the first time critics have used the incident to mock her.

All of these

A new study shows that fewer than 1% of patients who undergo gender-affirming surgical procedures end up regretting it. In fact, rates of regret are higher for people who get tattoos, elective plastic surgeries, bariatric weight loss surgeries, or have children, the study found.

White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre

A bevy of White House staffers reportedly confirmed to the New York Post that the Biden administration has been trying to convince out White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre to step down from her position – and that she has refused to do so.

Oklahoma State superintendent of Public Instruction Ryan Walters

A 45-year-old parent of a queer child, Audra Beasley, was arrested after calling Oklahoma’s anti-LGBTQ+ head of schools, Ryan Walter, “an obnoxious bigot and bully” during a recent meeting of the State Board of Education.

“You make a fool out of yourself,” she said. “You come in here and you talk about Title IX and our president. You are making a complete fool of yourself…. It is none of your business what gender that child or what gender is on their birth certificate…. You are an embarrassment to Oklahoma. You are a downright embarrassment to Oklahoma. And you wear the same damn clothes all the time too — why is that?”

United Methodist

The decision took place at the church’s General Conference, where the delegates voted 692-51 to remove the ban. The Methodist Church has been moving toward LGBTQ+-inclusivity for a long time now, so much so that in November 2023, 261 Georgia congregations left the church because it was not anti-LGBTQ+ enough.

"Eventually settle down in a quiet suburb with a tall, rich companion"

Ian Paterson came out to his school in a poem and later wanted to have his senior quote  say that he would "eventually settle down in a quiet suburb with a tall, rich, hunky man with a bushy moustache." The school rejected that quote, leading to some attention in national media at the time. 

The school eventually relented but modified his quote to make it less gay: "hunky man with a bushy moustache" got turned to "companion."

A new rule declaring anti-LGBTQ+ discrimination in education illegal under Title IX

The new rules interpret Title IX, which bans discrimination on the basis of sex in education, as a legal protection against anti-LGBTQ+ school policies. GOP attorneys general across the country are angry and determined to regain the right to discriminate against LGBTQ+ youth. 

Mississippi

Two transphobic bills died in the Mississippi legislature after Republican lawmakers were unable to find a compromise on their provisions before a Monday deadline. One bill would have forced trans people to use facilities in public buildings that match the gender listed on their birth certificates, and the other would have established that “there are only two sexes… male or female” and that one’s sex is defined at birth.