🏳️‍⚧️⚕️🚔⚖️ On Wednesday, the U.S. Supreme Court rejected an emergency appeal from the Trump Administration to allow it to stop providing gender-affirming care to trans prisoners while a federal court case challenging the policy is in progress.

• More information:

  • "SCOTUS rejects Trump admin's emergency appeal to ban gender-affirming care for trans inmates"

    • https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/10/scotus-rejects-admins-emergency-appeal-to-ban-gender-affirming-care-for-trans-inmates/

  • "Supreme Court rejects Trump’s ‘dangerous’ push to cut off medical care for transgender prisoners"

    • https://www.advocate.com/breaking-news/supreme-court-transgender-prisoners

🏳️‍⚧️⚕️🚔 The 2023-2024 National Inmate Survey results were released this week, which include trans inmates reporting rampant sexual abuse, and abuse of queer people was found to be 7x higher than for heterosexual inmates. Last year, the Trump administration removed trans people from official government data regarding sexual violence.

• More information:

  • "Trump Justice Department obscures trans victims of prison sexual abuse while singling out trans perpetrators"

    • https://www.advocate.com/politics/national/trump-transgender-prisoners-sexual-abuse

🏳️‍⚧️🤼🏼‍♀️⚖️ This month, Alliance for Defending Freedom filed an emergency appeal on behalf of a cisgender female high school wrestler who alleges that she was sexually assaulted by a trans wrestler. The apparent goal is to create pressure for 23 remaining states to pass anti-trans sports bills.

• More information:

  • "Anti-LGBTQ+ group asks Supreme Court to fast track national blanket trans sports ban"

    • https://www.advocate.com/politics/national/adf-national-sports-ban-scotus

🏳️‍🌈🌏 This month, Outright International released a report stating that asexual discrimination and violence is pervasive worldwide.

• More information:

  • "Report reveals prevalence of asexual discrimination & violence: 'It's happening all over the world'"

    • https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/10/report-reveals-prevalence-of-asexual-discrimination-its-happening-all-over-the-world/

  • "Asexual People's Human Rights"

    • https://outrightinternational.org/sites/default/files/2026-10/2026_Asexuality_Asexual-Peoples-Human-Rights%20%281%29.pdf

🏳️‍⚧️⚕️🚔 Trans people in ICE custody are reporting routine abuse and neglect, being subjected to solitary confinement and being denied medical care, and forced de-transition.

• More information:

  • "'I'm afraid of dying here': Trans people report 'horrifying treatment' in ICE custody"

    • https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/10/im-afraid-of-dying-here-trans-people-report-horrifying-treatment-in-ice-custody/

🏳️‍🌈⚕️ 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/