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News (USA)
Trans fire chief loses discrimination lawsuit over years-old paperwork error
She was called a slur and reprimanded for wearing a skirt before getting fired. But a judge dismissed her lawsuit on a technicality.
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Politics
Republican lawmakers under fire for comparing non-binary people to animals & inanimate objects
One went on a further rant to media, likening trans and non-binary people to the definition of colors.
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News (USA)
Texas could charge doctors with “child abuse” if they treat a transgender child or teen
The proposed law could land a doctor in prison for treating their patient as recommended by every major medical association.
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News (USA)
Transgender man sues Amazon for pregnancy & gender identity discrimination
He says they assigned him to lift heavy bags of dog food after he told them he was pregnant and they refused to believe him.
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News (USA)
She built the small town’s fire department from scratch. They fired her after she came out.
The town didn’t have a fire department until she started. After she transitioned, they didn’t have a fire chief.
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Politics
Mike Quigley rips into Ben Carson for suggesting it’s okay to discriminate against trans women
For the third year in a row, Carson’s Housing and Urban Development has not tried to prevent anti-trans discrimination. So Mike Quigley ripped into him – again.
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News (USA)
Iowa Republicans give up on removing transgender people from state’s civil rights protections
A Republican leader announced that he was killing the proposed bill that would have paved the way for Iowa to stop providing protections and medical care to trans people.
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News (USA)
“Lifelong conservative Republican” fired from job after announcing transition
She says her employer “made my life pure hell” after she came out. But she still supports the party that opposes the Equality Act.
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Politics
The Trump administration is erasing transgender people from government websites
While multiple references to the LGBTQ community have disappeared, trans people are specifically being erased entirely.
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Bias Watch
Another Republican wants to ban gender-affirming medical treatment for youth
Georgia Rep. Ginny Ehrhart claims an ‘epidemic’ of transgender children influenced her to begin raising awareness for her bill proposal – that she hasn’t written yet.