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Election night in the US delivered a string of LGBTQ+ firsts: Chris Pappas wins New Hampshire, Sarah McBride is re-elected, Georgia elects its first out trans and nonbinary lawmaker, and Virginia voters strip the same-sex marriage ban from their constitution. In Texas, Democrats won after a flood of anti-trans ads.
An AP analysis of AdImpact data counts about 217,000 trans-focused GOP spots through October 25, more than at the same point in 2024. Meanwhile, 12% of voters call trans issues a top priority, against 85% for the economy. Here's where the money went and what it means for trans Americans.
Brochures and texts made to look like they came from trans advocates reached Texans ahead of early voting. The group they borrowed from says it had nothing to do with them, a DA has opened a forgery probe, and nobody yet knows who paid.
Washington's Department of Health ordered the Seattle LGBTQ+ Center to switch HIV and STI testing to a LabCorp-owned lab in San Antonio, just as Texas escalates its hunt for queer medical records.
The Texas Supreme Court dismissed the temporary injunctions that had blocked the state from investigating families of transgender minors as child abusers. The ruling is procedural — but it leaves the underlying policy intact and the next case wide open.
