🏳️‍🌈📊 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 wanted hormones but could not access them were nearly twice as likely to attempt suicide as those with access to HRT. LGBTQ+ youth who reported living in very accepting communities attempted suicide at less than one-third the rate of those who reported living in very unaccepting communities.

• More information:

  • "Trump & GOP’s anti-trans politics are driving suicidality among LGBTQ+ youth" 

    • https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/05/gops-anti-trans-politics-are-driving-suicidality-among-lgbtq-youth/

  • "Study Shows LGBTQ+ Youth in the U.S. Face High Rates of Suicidality and Victimization, Worsened by Anti-LGBTQ+ Politics" 

    • https://www.thetrevorproject.org/blog/study-shows-lgbtq-youth-in-the-u-s-face-high-rates-of-suicidality-and-victimization-worsened-by-anti-lgbtq-politics/

  • "2025 U.S. National Survey on the Mental Health of LGBTQ+ Young People" 

    • https://www.thetrevorproject.org/survey-2025/

🏳️‍⚧️🗳️ On April 28th, Frank Liberati, a Democrat running for the Michigan House of Representatives, filed a complaint against his primary opponent, a trans woman named Joanna Whaley, claiming she violated election law by not listing her former name on the ballot. However, Michigan election law includes exemptions to that requirement for common law name changes, which Whaley appears to qualify for.

• More information:

  • "Michigan Dem claims trans primary opponent violated law by not running under deadname" 

    • https://www.advocate.com/news/michigan-dem-claims-trans-primary-opponent-violated-law-by-not-running-under-deadname

  • "Trans Democrat slams primary opponent for 'weaponizing transphobia' against her" 

    • https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/05/trans-democrat-slams-primary-opponent-for-using-weaponized-transphobia-against-her/

  • "Democrat rages at trans opponent for not running under her deadname"

    • https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/05/trans-democrat-slams-primary-opponent-for-using-weaponized-transphobia-against-her/

  • "Downriver Dem files complaint against primary opponent, a trans woman, over her name on the ballot"

    • https://michiganadvance.com/2026/04/30/downriver-dem-files-complaint-against-primary-opponent-a-trans-woman-over-her-name-on-the-ballot/

🏳️‍⚧️🏠 On Tuesday, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development submitted a proposed rule which would require all homeless shelters that receive federal funds to house people according only to their assigned sex at birth.

• More information:

  • "Trans people could soon be banned from homeless shelters"

    • https://19thnews.org/2026/05/trump-administration-transgender-access-homeless-shelters/

🏳️‍⚧️📜 The White House released its U.S. Counterterrorism Strategy for 2026, which states that among other goals, they will prioritize "neutralization of violent secular political groups" with ideologies that are "radically pro-transgender," justifying this goal by referring to the killing of Charlie Kirk by "a radical who espoused extreme transgender ideologies."

• More information:

  • "White House puts trans rights groups in counterterrorism crosshairs"

    • https://www.advocate.com/politics/national/transgender-activists-terrorism-threat

  • "United States Counterterrorism Strategy 2026"

    • https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/2026-USCT-Strategy-1.pdf

🏳️‍⚧️🎓 On Monday, the U.S. Department of Education announced the launch of a Title IX investigation into Smith College, a private all-women's college, for admitting trans women and allowing them to use women's spaces.

• More information:

  • "Trump administration investigates women’s college for admitting trans women"

    • https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/05/administration-investigates-womens-college-for-admitting-trans-women/

  • "Department of Education threatens to pull Smith College's funding for admitting trans women"

    • https://www.advocate.com/politics/national/smith-college-trans-women

  • Education Department memo (CW: contains transphobic language)

    • https://www.ed.gov/about/news/press-release/us-department-of-education-opens-title-ix-investigation-all-womens-smith-college-admitting-men

🏳️‍⚧️⚕️⚖️ On Thursday, a federal judge temporarily blocked Federal Trade Commission investigations into two medical associations involved in trans healthcare guidance, writing that the investigations appear to be motivated by the administration's hostility to viewpoints supporting gender-affirming care.

• More information:

  • "Federal judge blocks FTC probes into trans medicine groups, citing ‘extensive evidence of animus’"

    • https://www.advocate.com/health/transgender-health/wpath-endocrine-society-legal-victory

🏳️‍⚧️📊On Monday, a new study from researchers at Virginia Commonwealth University was released undermining the often-circulated claim that most transgender youth eventually stop identifying as trans, finding that the studies cited to support this claim lack the statistical and methodological strength to draw any meaningful conclusions about the rate of “desistance” among trans youth.

• More information:

  • "Virginia researchers debunk the claim that most trans kids ‘grow out of it’"

    • https://www.advocate.com/health/transgender-health/vcu-debunks-trans-youth-regret

  • "‘Desistance’: A multimethod review of the literature on gender identity variability in transgender and gender diverse youth."

    • https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2027-49819-001

🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🏫On April 30, the DOJ announced that they have opened civil rights investigations into 36 school districts in Illinois regarding allegedly delivering curricula discussing sexual orientation and gender identity, without alerting parents of their rights to opt their children out of these lessons. Federal officials will also look into whether schools are allowing trans students to use bathrooms that align with their gender identity.

• More information:

  • "Now Trump's DOJ is investigating 36 Illinois school districts over LGBTQ+ content"

    • https://www.advocate.com/politics/national/doj-illinois-schools-gender-investigation

  • "Trump admin announces investigation of 36 more school districts for teaching ‘gender ideology’"

    • https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/05/admin-announces-investigation-of-36-more-school-districts-for-teaching-gender-ideology/