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🗳️ Former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg has pulled ahead in the early contest for the 2028 Democratic presidential nomination, edging out other high-profile names in a party still searching for its next standard-bearer, according to a June Emerson College Polling survey, published on Friday.
🚨 The University of Pennsylvania has caved to the Trump administration. It has agreed to ban transgender athletes from women’s sports and to strip alum Lia Thomas, a trans woman, of her swimming titles in a settlement with the U.S. Department of Education.
🌈 Delaware continues to shine as a beacon of trans hope, especially in politics. Mila Myles, a trans woman, serves the state as the governor's communications director. The Advocate's Christopher Wiggins spoke to Myles about her role in politics as well as her message to the trans community across the country.
Onward and upward,
Alex Cooper
Editor-in-Chief, The Advocate
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