Advocate newsletter 3/31/26

🏳️⚧️ Happy Trans Day of Visibility! As guest columnist Attie Lee writes for us today, "Trans people and gender-nonconforming individuals are part of the natural beauty of humanity—too powerful and too real to ever be erased."

Today's newsletter is filled with hopeful stories of trans people refusing to be erased: trans military members honoring each other despite a ban on their service, trans people raising money for gender-affirming surgery as restrictions on health care grow, trans Southerners living as their true selves in a region that makes that more difficult by the day.

To our trans readers: We see you, and we will continue to tell your stories.

Until next time,

The Advocate team

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