# @pinknews on Instagram - **Type:** Video - **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DQuI2ZVALsO - **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/36690397-pinknews-instagram - **Thumbnail:** https://img.gondola.cc/tr:w-,h-,fo-auto/postThumbnails/34a36ab73f.jpg - **Posted:** 2025-11-06T16:00:23.000+00:00 - **Account Owner:** PinkNews (@pinknews) — https://gondola.cc/pinknews ## Caption Nancy Pelosi has announced her retirement from Congress, the BBC reports. In a video message on Thursday (6 November), veteran politician Nancy Pelosi said she will not be seeking re-election to Congress at the end of her term in January 2027. The BBC notes that Pelosi, 85, served as the first female Speaker of the House and led her party in the lower chamber of Congress from 2003 until 2023. “As we go forward, my message to the city I love is this: San Francisco, know your power,” Pelosi said. “We have made history, we have made progress. We have always led the way, and now we must continue to do so by remaining full participants in our democracy, and fighting for the American ideals we hold dear.” Her retirement will come as a blow to anyone concerned about LGBTQ+ rights in the US. In August 2025, Nancy Pelosi explained that she was working on a “national level” to restore gender-affirming care for trans youth, which has been limited or banned across several US states. While visiting a medical centre in San Francisco on 7 August, she explained that the situation facing trans youth in the US is “really sad”, adding that she flies the transgender flag outside of her office. “That is something I’m working for at the national level, and we are hoping we can have gender-affirming care for our trans kids,” Nancy Pelosi told reporters when asked about gender-affirming care in California. #nancypelosi #democrats #transrights #protecttranskids #uspolitics ## Stats - **Views:** 15,830 - **Likes:** 5,373 - **Shares:** 0 - **Comments:** 118 ## Tags transrights, protecttranskids, nancypelosi, uspolitics, democrats --- Copyright (c) Gondola