A weekly advocacy update from PFLAG National

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Two exciting events are coming up next week featuring members of the PFLAG National team. We hope you’ll join us for one or both! 

Join our friends at Indivisible and PFLAG National on Tuesday, June 16, from 7–8:30 p.m. ET for Leading with Inclusion: Courageous Solidarity Across LGBTQ+ Communities. ([link removed]) Featuring PFLAG National’s Vice President of Advocacy, Katie Blair, and Vice President of Learning & Inclusion, Jamie Henkel, this timely conversation will examine the challenges LGBTQ+ communities continue to face, particularly at the intersections of race, class, gender identity, and sexual orientation. Together, they will explore how systems of oppression impact LGBTQ+ people and share practical strategies for building more welcoming, affirming, and effective movement spaces. RSVP today! ([link removed])

On Thursday, June 18, at 7:30 p.m. ET, Red Wine and Blue will host 2026 Trends: How State Legislators Are Targeting LGBTQ+ Rights ([link removed]) featuring presentations from PFLAG National’s Katie Blair and Patrick Cochran. State legislatures across the country have introduced a wave of bills targeting LGBTQ+ people and their families, affecting everything from health care and education to the freedom to live openly and authentically. Together, they will break down the major anti-LGBTQ+ legislative trends emerging in 2026, explore what’s driving these attacks, and highlight the strategies advocates and communities are using to push back. RSVP today ([link removed]).

California
The State Senate passed SB 934— Senator Scott Wiener’s critical bill giving conversion “therapy” survivors more time to come forward and seek justice—last month. Now we’re in the final push to get this bill to Governor Newsom’s desk. We need you to make sure the Assembly passes this bill ([link removed])!

Conversion “therapy” survivors deserve justice; tell your Assemblymembers to vote YES on SB 934 ([link removed])!

Florida
Join our partners at Parenting with Pride on July 20th for their 3rd annual Pride in Every Backpack Summit - Parent Education Summit ([link removed]). This summit will provide practical tools, expert guidance, and community support to help families feel less alone. This year, Jeanette Jennings, mother of Jazz Jennings, is the keynote speaker. Jeanette has helped educate millions through the hit series I Am Jazz and through the books she and Jazz have written together. 

Pride in Every Backpack is about making sure every child enters the school year feeling safe, supported, and celebrated. Register today! ([link removed]) 

Hawaiʻi 
Last week, Governor Josh Green signed into law a bill that shields Hawaiʻi providers, patients, and the people who help them from out-of-state attacks on lawful health care. Some states are trying to punish care that is fully legal in other states where it's provided — such as abortion, contraception, and gender-affirming care. HB 1875 can protect providers and patients from these attacks. 

Reach out to Governor Green and thank him for protecting our doctors and patients ([link removed])!

PFLAG in Action

Michigan, Indiana and Tennessee lawmakers push ‘Nuclear Family’ proclamations to counter Pride Month ([link removed]). PFLAG National Vice President, Advocacy Katie Blair spoke out against these exclusionary efforts and underscores in her op-ed the importance of recognizing and affirming the diversity of people and families in her home state of Indiana.

State News

Here is a sample of what’s going on around the country. You can share news from your state with [email protected] (mailto:[email protected]) for possible inclusion in a future newsletter.

New York - Two parents of trans youth report that Mount Sinai Health System will share their children’s medical records with the federal government ([link removed]). While parents have reported that hospital representatives called them to say their children’s health information would be shared with the federal government in response to a subpoena, the families’ attorneys have not confirmed that Mount Sinai has received a federal subpoena. 

Webster Town Board votes to remove Pride flag from town hall ([link removed]). Webster raised a Pride flag over its town hall for the first time this year, however, the town board voted 3-2 on June 4th for a new policy to only allow the American flag and the New York State flag to fly at town hall, requiring that the Pride flag be removed on June 5th. 

Ohio - Cleveland Clinic reaches deal with DOJ to stop providing gender-affirming care to trans and nonbinary youth ([link removed]). The agreement requires Cleveland Clinic to stop providing gender-affirming care to youth for at least 20 years, even if Ohio’s current anti-trans healthcare ban were to be overturned before then. Cleveland Clinic also agreed to commit $2 million towards detransition care. This represents the second hospital nationwide to set aside funds specifically for detransition care. 

Oregon - State’s attorneys resist federal court order to house incarcerated transgender women in women’s prisons ([link removed]). U.S. Magistrate Judge Mark D. Clarke ruled in favor of two incarcerated trans women in April, writing that the Oregon Dept. of Corrections must provide “a presumption of placement consistent with each woman’s gender identity absent a documented and articulable security justification.” State’s attorneys, however, have filed a motion that Judge Clarke reconsider or clarify his order and that the lawsuit could interfere with existing state correctional policies to the “detriment” of other incarcerated Oregonians. 

Texas - Attorney General Ken Paxton agrees to dismiss lawsuit against City of Denton over “Big Gay Swim Day” event ([link removed]). The Attorney General had filed a lawsuit against the city on May 28th, alleging that Denton was failing to proactively enforce Texas’s anti-trans bathroom ban for a planned “Big Gay Swim Day” event at a public pool when organizers of the event advertised there would be gender-neutral restrooms. The city confirmed it would follow the law and the event, hosted by PRIDENTON and OUTreach Denton, will take place. 

Tarrant County Commission votes down resolution recognizing LGBTQ Health Center ([link removed]). During a county commission meeting on June 9th, the commission considered multiple resolutions, including ones recognizing Juneteenth, fatherhood, America’s Semiquincentennial, and commending the work of the HELP Center for LGBTQ Health. While other resolutions passed, the commendation for the HELP Center failed 3-2.

Federal News

Federal judge blocks Justice Dept. (DOJ) effort to obtain medical records related to healthcare for trans and nonbinary youth ([link removed]). U.S. District Judge P. Casey Pitts issued an emergency order on June 8th directing Lucile Packard Children's Hospital Stanford not to produce medical records of trans and nonbinary youth sought by a federal grand jury subpoena while the court considers pending motions in the case. The DOJ has subpoenaed similar medical records from NYU Langone Hospitals ([link removed]). 

Federal judge refers DOJ lawyers for possible discipline over their handling of investigation into healthcare for trans and nonbinary youth ([link removed]). The DOJ sought a federal court order to compel Rhode Island Hospital to turn over medical records of trans youth treated as the hospital. U.S. District Judge Mary McElroy accused DOJ lawyers of misrepresenting facts under oath and withholding information from federal courts "in an obvious effort to shield its recent investigative tactics — previously rejected by every other court to review them — from this Court's review, in favor of a distant forum that DOJ deems friendly to its political positions."

Federal judge hears arguments in case over Idaho’s anti-trans bathroom ban ([link removed]). On June 5th, U.S. District Judge Amanda Brailsford heard arguments over a request for a preliminary injunction blocking enforcement of HB 752, which makes it a criminal offense for transgender people to use bathrooms and other sex-segregated facilities aligned with their sex assigned at birth.

Global News

Hungary - Authorities drop charges against Budapest Mayor over role in organizing 2025 Pride march ([link removed]). Former Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s government banned Pride celebrations, but over 100,000 people marched on June 28th, 2025 in defiance of the ban. Budapest Mayor Gergely Karácsony spoke at the march and was charged by the Budapest Chief Prosecutor’s Office in January with “organizing the unlawful assembly despite a prohibition order.” With the inauguration of a new government headed by Prime Minister Péter Magyar, Hungarian police announced that Budapest Pride could take place without interference this year and that charges against Karácsony were dropped.

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