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Commentary
A short history of where all this anti-trans stuff came from & why you should be concerned
2024 could be “the first time in 20 years that LGBT issues have been centered in a presidential election,” according to one expert.
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Bias Watch
Mike Pence’s “traditional” organization for “freedom” will have a hate group leader advising
Pence has complained about backlash he’s gotten for his anti-LGBTQ associations before. Hiring an old friend who just happens to run an anti-LGBTQ hate group certainly won’t help.
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News (USA)
Christian photographer sues for right to refuse gay customers because she doesn’t work with vampires
She can legally refuse “Halloween or Vampire-themed weddings,” so why not LGBTQ weddings?
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News (USA)
Arkansas will now allow medical workers to legally refuse treating LGBTQ people
The governor thinks giving doctors, nurses, and EMTs the right to object to treating patients is fine because of “the federal laws that prohibit discrimination.” Without the Equality Act, that doesn’t automatically include LGBTQ people.
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News (USA)
Federal court rules that professor can sue school that disciplined him for misgendering student
The professor successfully argued that not being able to misidentify a student went against his First Amendment rights as an educator and Christian.
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News (USA)
Arkansas legislature passes bill to allow EMTs & doctors to refuse to treat LGBTQ people
The bill to allow health care providers to turn away patients due to their religious beliefs is headed to the Republican governor’s desk.
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Commentary
There’s a close connection between the religious right’s anti-trans & anti-abortion efforts
The religious right is using the same tactics, for the same reasons, to stop medical treatment or sports for trans youth as it has against abortion providers.
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Politics
A coalition of hate groups are coming together to try & stop the Equality Act
Mike Pence is working for one of the groups claiming here that protections against discrimination somehow “sexualizes” children.
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News (USA)
An adoption agency was told to stop turning away LGBTQ couples. The courts say they can.
The agency says it’s Christian religious beliefs give it the freedom to discriminate.
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News (USA)
Lawyers wants a judge to recuse himself because he won’t refer to transgender women as “males”
They say respecting trans women’s gender “would leave an impartial observer gravely concerned that the Court has prejudged the matter.”