• Conservative influencer Candace Owens sued for defamation over claims that France's first lady is a man

    Conservative influencer Candace Owens sued for defamation over claims that France's first lady is a man

    Jul 24, 2025 03:35 PM EST

    ... been dogged by conspiracy theories that Brigitte was born as a man named Jean-Michel Trogneux, who supposedly then took the name Brigitte as a transgender woman. Jean-Michel Trogneux is, in fact, Brigitte's brother. Last September, Brigitte and Jean-Michel Trogneux won a defamation suit against two women ...

  • Columbia University makes deal with Trump administration, agrees to pay more than $220 million to restore federal funding

    Columbia University makes deal with Trump administration, agrees to pay more than $220 million to restore federal funding

    Jul 24, 2025 02:04 PM EST

    ... the University of Pennsylvania in March over a dispute around women's sports. They restored it when school officials agreed to update records set by transgender swimmer Lia Thomas and change their policies. The administration also is looking beyond private universities. University of Virginia President James Ryan agreed to resign ...

  • July 19, 2025 - PBS News Weekend full episode

    July 19, 2025 - PBS News Weekend full episode

    Jul 19, 2025 10:00 PM EST

    Saturday on PBS News Weekend, Trump’s yearslong relationship with Jeffrey Epstein comes under scrutiny. What major cuts at the National Cancer Institute may mean for the fight against the disease. Transgender U.S. service members fight to continue to serve despite the Trump administration banning them from the military ...

  • Andrea Gibson, poetic explorer of life, death and identity, dies at 49

    Andrea Gibson, poetic explorer of life, death and identity, dies at 49

    Jul 15, 2025 05:25 PM EST

    ... Gibson perform at a bar in San Francisco a decade ago. Their poetry was electrifying, lighting up the room with laughter, tears and love. Gibson's poetry became a shared interest for the mother and son, and eventually helped Stay better understand her son when he came out as transgender.

  • Gavin Newsom tours South Carolina, a pivotal primary state for Democrats

    Gavin Newsom tours South Carolina, a pivotal primary state for Democrats

    Jul 08, 2025 06:58 PM EST

    ... hosted Trump's allies on his podcast, even stunning some members of his own party by agreeing with podcast guests on issues such as restricting transgender women and girls in sports. Saying dismantling police departments was “lunacy," Newsom also kept silent when longtime Trump ally Steve Bannon falsely said Trump ...

  • Digital archive aims to preserve Bayard Rustin's legacy as a queer Civil Rights activist

    Digital archive aims to preserve Bayard Rustin's legacy as a queer Civil Rights activist

    Jul 08, 2025 06:47 PM EST

    ... Gavin Newsom issued a posthumous pardon in 2020, acknowledging Rustin had been subjected to discrimination. Rustin and figures such as Marsha P. Johnson, a prominent transgender activist during the gay rights movement, continue inspire the LGBTQ+ community because they “were super intentional and unapologetic in the ways in which they ...

  • A look at rulings from the Supreme Court term that could have far-reaching consequences

    A look at rulings from the Supreme Court term that could have far-reaching consequences

    Jul 04, 2025 10:50 PM EST

    ... a concurring opinion and said -- in which she would have gone further and reached an issue that the majority didn't address, whether or not transgender people are a suspect or a protected class. And then they issued a decision in a case out of Montgomery County, Maryland, in the ...

  • How Trump's big bill could affect women, children and LGBTQ+ Americans

    How Trump's big bill could affect women, children and LGBTQ+ Americans

    Jul 02, 2025 08:05 PM EST

    A provision that would have prohibited Medicaid from covering gender-affirming care for transgender people — minors and adults — was stripped out by the Senate parliamentarian. But the Senate parliamentarian approved a provision that would prevent Planned Parenthood and other reproductive health care clinics from receiving Medicaid reimbursements for the provision ...

  • News Wrap: 'Diddy' jury reaches verdict on 4 of 5 counts and told to continue deliberating

    News Wrap: 'Diddy' jury reaches verdict on 4 of 5 counts and told to continue deliberating

    Jul 01, 2025 10:50 PM EST

    ... were either partially or fully canceled. Temperatures in Paris remained at 101 degrees Fahrenheit even at sunset. The University of Pennsylvania has agreed to ban transgender athletes from its women's sports in order to resolve its federal civil rights case with the Trump administration. The Department of Education said ...

  • How a new twice-yearly drug is prompting hopes of curbing HIV cases

    How a new twice-yearly drug is prompting hopes of curbing HIV cases

    Jul 01, 2025 10:30 PM EST

    ... people understand their own sexuality, their own risk. It is certainly going to be used by some gay men and men who have sex with men, transgender individuals, people who inject drugs, sex workers, young women in -- particularly in Eastern and Southern Africa, where we see high rates of HIV.