20 states sue the Trump administration over cuts to homeless permanent housing funding - POLITICO

The new conditions placed on the program would also give HUD the ability to deny funding for organizations that acknowledge the existence of transgender or nonbinary individuals. "Communities across the country depend on Continuum of Care funds to provide housing and other resources to our most vulnerable neighbors," said James in a press release. "These funds help keep tens of thousands of people from sleeping on the streets every night. I will not allow this administration to cut off these funds and put vital housing and support services at risk."…

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/11/25/states-trump-administration-hud-housing-cuts-00668178 

Indiana high school cancels Jodi Picoult play in act she calls 'censorship'

"Even with the licensed edits, there were still sexual innuendos and alcohol references that I couldn't, in good conscience, allow in a public school performance," Fewell said… 

In a Facebook post earlier this month, Picoult alleged that the complaint about the play came from a single parent who objected to the original text having a non-binary character. The amended production did not reference the character's gender identity, according to Picoult…

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/indiana-high-school-cancels-jodi-picoult-play-act-calls-censorship-rcna240764

 

Biological sex is far from binary − this college course examines the science of sex diversity in people, fungi and across the animal kingdom

Biological sex comes in many more forms than just male or female…

https://theconversation.com/biological-sex-is-far-from-binary-this-college-course-examines-the-science-of-sex-diversity-in-people-fungi-and-across-the-animal-kingdom-214690

Explainer: What does nonbinary mean?

Though the term nonbinary has gained increasing mainstream recognition over the last decade, nonbinary people are not new or a trend. Out & Equal, a nonprofit that advocates for LGBTQ workplace equality, created a resource that traces nonbinary identities back to 2000 BCE...

https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-news/explainer-nonbinary-mean-rcna94298

Nonbinary genders beyond 'male' and 'female' would have been no surprise to ancient rabbis, who acknowledged tumtums, androgynos and aylonot

Rabbinic literature, the body of texts written by Jewish leaders in antiquity, includes several other categories. In these texts, a person with both sets of external genitalia is called an "androgynos," a term borrowed from Greek. A person with neither is called a "tumtum," and a person who loses his male sexual organs is called a "saris." There is also a term for someone whose sex assigned at birth is female but does not develop to female sexual maturity – in some cases, because they develop "male" traits: an "aylonit."…

https://theconversation.com/nonbinary-genders-beyond-male-and-female-would-have-been-no-surprise-to-ancient-rabbis-who-acknowledged-tumtums-androgynos-and-aylonot-206827