🏳️‍⚧️⚕️🏛️ On Wednesday, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services announced that they had sent letters to leading medical organizations, including the American Medical Association, American Psychiatric Association, American Psychological Association, and WPATH, demanding that they state their positions on gender-affirming care for trans youth and respond to unscientific claims made in anti-trans reports.

• More information:

  • "Trump admin demands medical organizations explain why they support for trans care"

    • https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/10/admin-demands-medical-organizations-explain-why-they-support-for-trans-care/

  • "HHS Issues Final Demand to Medical Organizations to Answer for Sex-Rejecting Procedures for Minors"

    • https://www.hhs.gov/press-room/hhs-demands-answers-medical-organizations-sex-rejecting-procedures-minors.html

🏳️‍⚧️⚕️🚔⚖️ On October 8, attorneys pushed for the U.S. Supreme Court to uphold a preliminary injunction issued earlier this year allowing trans prisoners to continue to receive gender-affirming care, following the Trump administration asking in September to withdraw gender-affirming care access to trans prisoners.

• More information:

  • "Transgender prisoners ask U.S. Supreme Court to stop Trump from taking their medical care"

    • https://www.advocate.com/politics/national/transgender-prisoners-supreme-court-hormones

🏳️‍⚧️🚔⚖️ On October 5, a Tennessee man's murder conviction was overturned because he had not been allowed to use the fact that the victim was trans as part of his defense, with the court stating that by not mentioning the victim's "biological sex," prosecutors "misled the jury."

• More information:

  • "He murdered a woman. A court overturned his conviction because the victim was trans."

    • https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/10/he-murdered-a-woman-a-court-overturned-his-conviction-because-the-was-trans/

🏳️‍🌈⚕️ 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!

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  • "Queering Medicine Provider Directory"

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