"The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, under Trump Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., has quietly removed a federal public health webpage offering explicit safer-sex and harm reduction guidance for mpox. The deletion confirms fears among LGBTQ+ health experts that the Trump administration is once again illegally scrubbing medically vetted information tied to queer communities from government websites."

advocate.com/health/sexual-hea…

#PublicHealth #lgbtq #CDC #mpox

"The Texas attorney general has secured an unusual settlement over child transgender care that compels Texas Children’s Hospital to create the nation’s first ever 'detransition clinic' in addition to paying the state $10 million."

texastribune.org/2026/05/15/te…

#healthcare #hospitals #lgbtq #transgender #ChildrensHealth #texas

Today is the International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia, and Biphobia.

This year #IDAHOBIT explores the themes of democracy and the role LGBTQIA+ people and their rights play in signalling true democracy.

Here in the UK, we're seeing the safety of LGBTQ+ people decline rapidly. Data published earlier this week by ILGA-Europe now places the UK as 22nd in Europe for LGBTQ+ protections. In 2015, the UK led in these rankings.

We have to do more.

#IDAHOBIT2026 #LGBTQ #FediDiverse

"A federal judge has blocked the Trump administration’s sweeping demands for confidential transgender patient information from Rhode Island’s largest hospital that provides gender-affirming care to minors."

apnews.com/article/transgender…

#healthcare #lgbtq #transgender #ChildrensHealth #courts #DOJ

The thing about androgyny .... IT'S GREAT!

This piece is currently available for sale as both originals and prints.

I just got the original back from the Watson Clinic, where it was on display for a little under a year as part of their Arts in Medicine program.

#collage #androgyny #art #trans #transrightsarehumanrights #floridaartist #transartist #queerartist #lgbtq #healthcare #genderaffirmingcare

"The federal government is escalating efforts to seek private medical data for children undergoing gender-affirming care, as at least one hospital faces the first known criminal probe of its kind."

19thnews.org/2026/05/gender-af…

#healthcare #lgbtq #transgender #ChildrensHealth #courts #DOJ

Unfortunately it's only a guideline, not a law.
Yet.

"Conversion practices are built on a lie.
The lie that LGBTIQ+ people need to be fixed," Lahbib said on Wednesday.
"You cannot torture away a person's identity."

euronews.com/my-europe/2026/05…

#europe #lgbtq #healthcare #conversiontherapy

In advance of the celebration of #pride, the @EUCommission raised the pride flag in front of the Berlaymont.

(Video taken from EC social media)

#UnitedInDiversity #EU #LGBTQ