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Maine is fighting a Justice Department subpoena seeking confidential prison records involving a transgender woman housed in a women’s correctional facility.

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On Saturday, the United States will mark its 250th anniversary, and, shortly before that, on June 26, it marked 11 years of marriage equality for all Americans. Both occasions are celebrations of freedom.

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A federal judge in California has ruled that the Justice Department likely cannot lawfully obtain confidential medical records identifying transgender minors who received gender-affirming care at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford. The ruling delivers a significant setback to a yearlong federal campaign targeting providers of such care.

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The Trump administration threatened to withhold federal funding from a Kansas school district over its trans-inclusive policies.

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Another day, another think piece by a gay man distancing himself from queerness. If it feels like we were just here, it’s because we were.