🏳️‍🌈☎️ On Tuesday, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services stated that they will restore the national 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline’s specialized services for LGBTQ+ youth, after Congress required the service be reinstated in the 2026 budget. However, the Department said that the LGBTQ+ youth line will be required to comply with President Trump’s anti-trans executive order, which may prevent trans youth from receiving appropriate crisis support.

• More information:

  • "Trump administration confirms it’s restoring LGBTQ+ youth crisis line it eliminated last year" 

    • https://www.advocate.com/politics/national/trump-restoring-988-lgbtq-crisis

🏳️‍🌈🧑‍🧑‍🧒 Michigan-based Bethany Christian Services, the largest Protestant adoption agency in America, announced on Wednesday that they will no longer allow LGBTQ+ couples to foster or adopt children.

• More information:

  • "The country's largest Protestant adoption agency is dropping LGBTQ couples --- again"

    • https://religionnews.com/2026/06/10/the-countrys-largest-protestant-adoption-agency-is-dropping-lgbtq-couples-again/

🏳️‍⚧️⚖️ On June 7th, a federal judge temporarily blocked the Federal Bureau of Prisons from transferring 14 transgender women to men’s prisons, finding that the plaintiffs each faced high risk of severe harm if transferred and that doing so would likely violate their constitutional rights.

• More information:

  • "Court rules Trump can't move transgender women to men's prisons" 

    • https://www.advocate.com/politics/national/trump-transgender-women-mens-prisons

  • "Federal judge blocks Trump administration’s plan to send 14 trans women to men’s prisons"

    • https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/06/federal-judge-blocks-administrations-plan-to-send-14-trans-women-to-mens-prisons/

🏳️‍⚧️🏥🏛️ 🏳️‍⚧️🏥🏛️ On Tuesday, the Cleveland Clinic reached a settlement with the Department of Justice requiring the hospital to spend $2 million to provide no-cost detransition care, following a similar DOJ settlement last month with Texas Children's Hospital.

• More information:

  • "Second major U.S. hospital agrees to fund detransition services under settlement with Trump DOJ"

    • https://www.advocate.com/health/transgender-health/cleveland-clinic-detransition-settlement

  • "2nd major hospital opens detransition clinic under Pressure from Department of Justice"

    • https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/06/2nd-major-hospital-opens-detransition-clinic-under-pressure-from-department-of-justice/

🏳️‍🌈🏛️ On Friday, Southgate, Michigan, restored a Pride event at a local library, after initially announcing its cancellation on Thursday. City officials had cancelled the event because they said they could not use public funds on a social or political advocacy event, but a statewide library cooperative then stepped in to pay the event vendor.

• More information:

  • "After cancellation, Southgate Pride celebration is back on"

    • https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/wayne/2026/06/11/southgate-pride-celebration-library-reinstated/90516581007/

  • "Southgate Pride, Explanation of Events"

    • https://southgate.lib.mi.us/southgate-pride-explanation-of-events

  • "Southgate cancels library Pride event, officials say"

    • https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/wayne-county/2026/06/11/southgate-cancels-library-pride-event-downriver/90506619007/

🏳️‍⚧️⚕️⚖️ On Wednesday, a federal judge rejected attempts by LGBTQ+ groups to put a nationwide block on efforts by the Department of Justice to obtain medical records on trans youth from hospitals, finding that class actions are not allowed in these cases.

• More information:

  • "Federal judge declines to block DOJ efforts nationwide to obtain trans youth medical records"

    • https://www.advocate.com/politics/national/judge-denies-trans-class-action

🏳️‍⚧️⚕️⚖️ On Monday, a federal judge temporarily blocked the Department of Justice from obtaining medical records of trans youth from a children's hospital in California.

• More information:

  • "Judge blocks Trump DOJ's latest effort to obtain medical records of transgender minors"

    • https://www.advocate.com/health/transgender-health/judge-blocks-trans-care-subpoenas