The Latest Breaking News from Shannon Minter

Republican support for marriage equality, LGBTQ+ rights sinks: poll

Just some four years ago, more than half of Republicans backed same-sex marriage.

Axios · Jun 7

RFK Jr agenda suffers another loss as trans advocates hail ‘huge step forward’

Judge’s repeal of Trump ban on gender-affirming care for children ‘a meaningful win for patients’, experts say

The Guardian - US · Apr 23

As Texas’ “bathroom bill” becomes law, questions remain about how it will be enforced

Some trans Texans worry that the lack of specificity on how the law will be enforced will harm their safety and lives.

The Texas Tribune · Dec 1, 2025

Transgender service members sue Trump over executive order pushing openly trans people from military

Trump’s executive order could stands to impact thousands of trans people in the nation’s armed forces

The Independent UK · Jan 28, 2025

Groups are ready to file the first lawsuit to challenge Trump's new order on transgender troops

Advocacy groups are preparing to file the first lawsuit challenging President Donald Trump’s executive order revising policy on transgender troops that likely sets the stage for their ban in the armed forces

The Independent UK · Jan 28, 2025

Court must rule whether Florida’s anti-trans law is the work of ‘political bullies’

Opponents say that law banning medical care for trans youth signed by Ron DeSantis is part of culture war agenda

The Guardian - US · Oct 8, 2024

Biden pays tribute to Matthew Shepard, 25 years after anti-gay hate-crime death

President says university student, 21, who died days after being tied to a fence and beaten, was murdered ‘simply for being himself’

The Guardian - US · Oct 12, 2023

Matt Gaetz called a ‘murderer’ during an ‘all-time low’ anti-trans House committee hearing

Democratic members condemn GOP’s latest ‘cynical and dangerous attack’ on trans youth and families

The Independent UK · Jul 28, 2023

Alabama is using the case that ended Roe to argue it can ban gender-affirming care

The case marks one of the first known instances in which a conservative state has tried to apply the abortion ruling to other realms, just as LGBTQ advocates and others were afraid would happen.

WEKU · Jul 3, 2022

Alabama cites SCOTUS ruling on abortion in renewed bid to block gender-affirming care for trans youth

Alabama has asked a federal appeals court to lift an injunction blocking the enforcement of a law that criminalizes gender-affirming care for transgender youth — and it’s doing so by invoking the recent Supreme Court opinion that overturned the constitutional right to abortion.

Tribune News Service · Jul 2, 2022