Latest from Kate Sosin
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Trump administration to end national LGBTQ+ suicide hotline
No reason was given for why services specific to LGBTQ+ callers are ending for 988, the crisis hotline for queer youth that launched in 2022.
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Supreme Court rules to keep Tennessee’s gender-affirming care ban in place
This 6-3 ruling may embolden more states to ban gender-affirming care at a time when the Trump administration has prioritized restricting it for transgender people.
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Social support and access to gender-affirming care can be lifesaving for trans people, survey finds
More than 92,300 trans and nonbinary people took the U.S. Transgender Survey, the only comprehensive study of transgender life in America.
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Dyke March New York City has banned Zionists this year. Organizers can’t agree on what that means.
The event has historically been a kind of antidote to the traditional and often corporate Pride Parade. It's on the verge of becoming a victim of its own internal politics.
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LGBTQ+ legal groups ask judge to block trans military ban
The ask came hours after the Supreme Court allowed the Trump administration’s executive order barring trans people from the military to go into effect.
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Native leaders fear for queer Indigenous youth as Trump slashes LGBTQ+ rights
The two-spirit community already faces some of the highest rates of discrimination, violence and harassment of any group in the LGBTQ+ community.
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‘It’s just not in me right now’: Is Lady MAGA USA hanging up her heels?
Two months into the president’s second term, the Trump-loving drag queen’s support is waning.
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Watchlist: Elliot Page, Peppermint and other trans icons share the movies that shaped them
The 19th asked changemakers to reflect on the feature films and documentaries they love in celebration of this year’s Transgender Day of Visibility.
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The 19th Explains: What’s the safest way for trans Americans to travel right now?
The Trump administration’s new policy to discontinue “X” gender markers on passports has many transgender Americans wondering if it’s safe to fly. The 19th asked experts to weigh in.
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‘Unabashedly demeaning’: Trump's trans military ban blocked by federal judge
U.S. District Judge Ana Reyes held that the ban likely violates service members’ constitutional rights and is “soaked in animus.”