Trans history has been made! Rounding out Transgender Awareness Week, Philly-based Naiymah Sanchez has been named the The Trans Laureate, the world’s first Transgender Laureate. Her voice. Her vision. Her laurel crown. Congratulations! Equalpride, the publisher of Out, is proud to be the media sponsor of the Bernadine Casseus Transgender Laureate program. 🏳️‍⚧️✨️ 🎤: Marie-Adélina de la Ferrière | Out Magazine

CNN's Donie O'Sullivan visits a clinic in Johannesburg that was helping more than 1,000 trans people, many of whom are living with HIV. The clinic was funded by USAID and was closed after President Donald Trump cut support for the aid agency. | CNN

Trans singer-songwriter Liniker, from Araraquara, Brazil, made LGBTQ history at the 26th Latin Grammy Awards ceremony held this week in Las Vegas, Nevada. Liniker has now earned four Latin Grammy Awards, the first in 2022, when she became the first-ever out trans woman to win a Latin Grammy, followed by three additional trophies in 2025. Even when factoring in the U.S.-based Grammy Awards, no other out trans woman has secured more trophies than Liniker to date. She sits just behind nonbinary art