QM Weekly Update for May 10, 2026
🏳️🌈📊 A report released Tuesday found that 36% of LGBTQ+ youth ages 13–24 and 40% of trans youth reported suicidal ideation in 2025, and trans youth who...
QM Weekly Update for May 4, 2026
🏳️🌈✊🏿🫂 A recent study found that among Black queer teen boys, a positive sense of identity and a sense of belonging were among the most influential factors...
QM Weekly Update for April 27, 2026
🏳️⚧️⚕️⚖️ On April 18th, a federal judge struck down a declaration by the Secretary of Health and Human Services which threatened to potentially withhold...
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QM Weekly Update for April 20, 2026
🏳️⚧️⚕️ A study published in March found that the implementation of a DoxyPEP intervention in Seattle was associated with a county-wide reduction in syphilis...
QM Weekly Update for April 13, 2026
🏳️⚧️⚕️⚖️ On Wednesday, a federal judge upheld a temporary block against key portions of two Trump administration executive orders which threatened to...
QM Weekly Update for April 6, 2026
🏳️🌈⚕️⚖️ On Tuesday, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that Colorado’s ban on “conversion therapy” for minors, recognized by experts as a form of anti-LGBTQ+...
QM Weekly Update for March 30, 2026
🏳️🌈🎒 A study released earlier this month found that in the first year and a half of high school, cisgender heterosexual students experienced a small...
QM Weekly Update for March 23, 2026
🏳️⚧️⚕️⚠️ Researchers at Northwestern University are advertising on social media sites to recruit trans youth for a new study called AYAGDOS. The project is...
QM Weekly Update for March 16, 2026
🏳️⚧️⚕️⚖️ On Tuesday, a federal appeals court upheld West Virginia’s ban on Medicaid coverage for gender-affirming surgeries. While some headlines describe...
QM Weekly Update for March 9, 2026
🏳️🌈🏛️ A report published this month found that since President Trump began his second term, over 360 federal surveys and other data collections have removed...
QM Weekly Update for March 2, 2026
🏳️⚧️🪪 On Thursday, Kansas invalidated the driver’s licenses and state identification cards of all trans people in the state who have updated the gender on...
QM Weekly Update for Feb 23, 2026
🏳️⚧️⚕️📊 A recent major study found that 26% of trans youth have ever attempted suicide, over 3.5 times the rate of cisgender youth. Trans youth were also...
QM Weekly Update for Feb 16, 2026
🏳️🌈⚕️⚖️ On Thursday, a federal judge temporarily blocked the Trump administration from enacting its recently-announced termination of $600 million in HIV...
QM Weekly Update for Feb 9, 2026
🏳️🌈🎓⚖️ The Michigan Supreme Court is set to decide whether a lawsuit brought by a former professor at a private Christian university in Grand Rapids, who...
QM Weekly Update for Feb 2, 2026
🏳️⚧️🎓 According to a new survey, 69% of trans and nonbinary Michigan State University undergrads reported being sexually harassed last year, compared to 57%...
QM Weekly Update for Jan 26, 2026
🏳️⚧️🏛️ On Tuesday, anti-trans provisions were removed from bills in Congress to fund the Departments of Education, Department of Labor, and Department of...
QM Weekly Update for Jan 19, 2026
🏳️⚧️⚕️ A recent extended study of 432 trans youth receiving gender-affirming hormone therapy found reduced suicidality after they received treatment.More...
QM Weekly Update for Jan 12, 2026
🏳️⚧️⚕️⚖️ On Tuesday, the Trump administration agreed to not begin issuing notices of exclusion from Medicare and Medicaid to providers of youth gender-...
QM Weekly Update for Jan 5, 2026
🏳️⚧️⚕️⚖️ On Monday, a federal judge gave the Trump administration 120 days to respond to a lawsuit filed by 19 states, including Michigan, against the...