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QM Weekly Update for April 13, 2026
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
February 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
February 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
February 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
February 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
January 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
January 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
January 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
January 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...
QM Weekly Update for December 29, 2025
December 29, 2025
🏳️⚧️⚕️⚖️ On Tuesday, 19 states, including Michigan, sued to stop the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services from cutting off all Medicare and Medicaid...
QM Weekly Update for December 22, 2025
December 22, 2025
🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈⚖️ On Wednesday, a federal appeals court blocked Michigan’s ban on conversion therapy (described by expert sources as a form of torture) for LGBTQ+...
QM Weekly Update for December 15, 2025
December 15, 2025
🏳️⚧️⚕️🪖 On Dec. 7th, a renegotiated version of the National Defense Authorization Act was released, which removes a proposed ban on Defense Department...
QM Weekly Update for December 8, 2025
December 8, 2025
🏳️⚧️�� On Tuesday, the U.S. Department of Justice sent a memo stating that it intends to remove special protections for trans, intersex, and gender...
QM Weekly Update for December 1, 2025
December 1, 2025
🏳️🌈📚 On Wednesday, it was reported that administrators at Otsego Public Schools, a district 30 minutes north of Kalamazoo, Michigan, removed a children’s...
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