Boston Spirit Magazine

Activists from the group Protect Trans Futures confronted Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Joy Campbell at a recent appearance of GBH’s Boston Public Radio, accusing the AG of not “aggressively [going] after health care organizations that scaled back their gender-affir...

Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Joy Campbell and a coalition of 20 other states secured a major victory after the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts struck down a key provision of a Trump Administration final rule that would have excluded coverage of ce...

All of the LGBTQ+ candidates running for national and statewide seats in last week’s primary elections in Connecticut and Vermont won their races and will advance to the US Midterm General Election on November 3.

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Last week, the Trump administration released a rule that would, if allowed to take effect, prohibit federal Medicaid dollars from being used to provide care to transgender adolescents under 18, and federal Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) funds from covering care for transgender individuals under 19.

No federal law prohibits this care, which remains legal...

Governor Maura Healey today signed a new law protecting students’ freedom to read and keeping book bans out of Massachusetts schools and public libraries. Signed at the Franklin Public Library, the oldest public library in the United States, the law establishes a fair, transparent process for reviewing library materials while strengthening protections for teachers and librari...