Aqua RichJo | September 29, 2026 The Trump administration has asked the Supreme Court to let it enforce restrictions on gender-affirming healthcare for transgender people in federal prisons while a lawsuit continues. The Justice Department filed the emergency request Monday, September 28. The Court has not ruled on it. The request puts a direct question before the justices: Can the Bureau of Prisons put its new policy into effect now, despite a lower-court order blocking it?

Aqua RichJo | September 25, 2026 Two more major hospital systems have agreed to stop providing specified gender-affirming treatments to minors as part of federal settlements. NYU Langone Hospitals and the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center will also pay a combined $9.45 million. The Justice Department says at least four other hospital systems have entered similar agreements. The money and the care restrictions are real terms of the latest agreements. The government’s all

Aqua RichJo| September 25, 2026 At UT Austin, students may still be able to take classes on Black women’s history, LGBTQ literature and women’s lives. But under the university’s redesigned core curriculum, none of the Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies courses submitted for review were approved to satisfy core requirements. That is a decision about what counts toward every undergraduate’s foundational education—and who gets to make that call. Reporting published September