🏳️‍🌈🏛️🌍 On Monday, a report was released detailing 40 different cases where LGBTQ+ individuals were deported to countries that criminalize same-sex relations, despite being given legal protection in the U.S. after fleeing their home country because of anti-LGBTQ+ persecution.

• More information:

  • "Report: Trump Admin is Deporting LGBTQ Asylum Seekers to Hostile Third Countries"

    • https://truthout.org/articles/report-trump-admin-is-deporting-lgbtq-asylum-seekers-to-hostile-third-countries/

  • "Trump's deportation push forces dozens of LGBT migrants onto hostile terrain"

    • https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/trumps-deportation-push-forces-dozens-lgbt-migrants-onto-hostile-terrain-2026-10-05/

🏳️‍⚧️🪪⚖️ On Tuesday, a federal appeals court ruled that trans youth in Arizona do not have to undergo gender-affirming surgery before updating their gender marker on their birth certificate.

• More information:

  • "Court rules state can’t force trans people to get surgery before updating birth certificates"

    • https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/10/court-rules-state-cant-force-trans-people-to-get-surgery-before-updating-birth-certificates/

  • "Transgender Arizonans don’t need surgery to update birth certificates, federal appeals court confirms"

    • https://www.advocate.com/politics/states/arizona-transgender-birth-certificate-changes

🏳️‍⚧️🏛️🏫 On Wednesday, the Ann Arbor School Board announced a 90 day moratorium with the Department of Justice, who is investigating Ann Arbor Public Schools' inclusive transgender policies. In this time, the DOJ cannot punish the district for allegedly violating parental rights.

• More information:

  • "AAPS and DOJ agree to 90-day pause over transgender policy"

    • https://www.wemu.org/wemu-news/2026-10-08/aaps-and-doj-agree-to-90-day-pause-over-transgender-policy

  • "Ann Arbor Schools Hit Pause In Federal Fight Over Trans Student Policy"

    • https://pridesource.com/article/ann-arbor-schools-trans-students-policy

🏳️‍🌈📊 On Thursday, a new survey was released that found that 33% of LGBTQ+ adults in the U.S. report being more open about their identity than two years ago, but 78% say that social acceptance of trans and nonbinary people has decreased in that period. 63% of LGBTQ+ adults said there is a great deal or a fair amount of acceptance of lesbian, gay, and bisexual people, but only 9% said the same about trans and nonbinary people.

• More information:

  • "LGBTQ+ Americans are living more openly despite pressure to hide"

    • https://www.advocate.com/politics/advocacy/national-coming-out-day-hrc

  • "Being Out in a Difficult Moment: LGBTQ+ People Continue to Choose Visibility, Connection, and Community"

    • https://communityinsights.hrc.org/research/ncod26-outness-and-visibility

🏳️‍🌈⚕️ The Queering Medicine Provider Directory is a community resource that helps LGBTQ+ individuals in the Greater Lansing Area connect with affirming healthcare providers and services by maintaining an up-to-date, reliable, community-informed directory. Know an affirming provider around Lansing? Please share the provider submission form with them so they can apply to be included in our directory!

• More information:

  • "Queering Medicine Provider Directory"

    • https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Mw3ekLyS6UMDPVNSI-bNsSYwJ6z1qB9mzPc1Vv_SXJ8/

  • "Queering Medicine Provider Directory Submission Form"

    • https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1alQRVQP0rK6QRgcxKQ-OiJS-x6nt0o4NRdyX_soPeFo/