New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s administration plans to spend $8.9 million on contracts providing gender-transition treatments to minors, including puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones. A city procurement notice says the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene intends to contract with organizations that provide or facilitate so-called “gender-affirming care” for patients under 18. The services Read more by IFN English on IFN.

Democrats are increasingly attempting to connect abortion with economic affordability as the 2026 midterm elections approach, presenting access to abortion as part of the broader debate over family finances and the cost of living. Feminist writer Jessica Valenti recently told Vox that abortion should be treated as an “affordability issue,” arguing that few decisions have Read more by IFN English on IFN.

French feminist writer Dora Moutot is facing new criminal complaints that could result in prison time over her criticism of gender ideology and her defense of women-only spaces. Moutot was already convicted in May of “public insult” following comments she made during a 2022 television debate with transgender mayor Marie Cau. During the discussion, Moutot Read more by IFN English on IFN.

A transgender-identifying New York Times executive was allegedly shot and killed by the victim’s elderly in-laws in Northern California following years of bitter family and custody disputes. Jonathan McKinsey, 40, who worked as director of engineering for the Times’ games division, was shot Saturday in the parking lot of a park in Dublin, California. Police Read more by IFN English on IFN.

Hungary’s largest LGBT advocacy organization is campaigning to overturn the country’s ban on legal gender recognition, a policy introduced under former Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s government. The Háttér Society has launched a petition calling on parliament to repeal Section 33 of a 2020 law, which defines a person’s official sex according to biological characteristics recorded Read more by IFN English on IFN.