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Lauren Boebert demands cutting State Department funds over tiny grant for drag show
Another conservative called the small grant “an act of political warfare.”
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U.S. issues first passport with non-binary “X” gender marker in historic move
“People do not always fit within a male or a female designation,” so having another gender option on passports allows non-binary people to “live with greater dignity and respect.”
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Biden administration recognizes Intersex Awareness Day
“We recognize the voices of intersex people around the world,” the Department of State said in a statement, recognizing “the human rights of intersex persons.”
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Legislators beg Biden administration to evacuate LGBTQ Afghans before the Taliban kills them
The Taliban control the airport and borders. One gay man has already been killed and dismembered as LGBTQ people try desperately to flee the country.
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President Biden appoints Jessica Stern as the Special Envoy for LGBTQ Rights
The appointment of a Special Envoy for LGBTQ rights fills a position started in the Obama administration and left unfilled during most of the Trump administration.
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State Department tosses Trump regulation that denied citizenship to gay couples’ kids
Children born abroad to LGBT couples via surrogacy will be granted citizenship again instead of being declared “born out of wedlock.”
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Biden administration rejects Trump’s anti-LGBTQ international rights commission
The Trump administration tried to make religious freedom more important than LGBTQ rights. Sec. of State Antony Blinken rejected that today.
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Trump’s commission on human rights issues report undermining LGBTQ people & international law
The Trump administration is now saying that LGBTQ human rights aren’t that important in a report “that could spark a race to the bottom by human rights-abusing governments around the world.”
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One of the biggest antigay activists says Trump’s human rights commission is their ‘opportunity’
The famous Christian conservative activist says Trump’s new ‘human rights’ commission will be a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to roll back LGBTQ equality.
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The Trump administration will launch a human rights panel that stresses antigay ‘natural law’
“Natural law” is one of the religious right’s favorite phrases for why they oppose LGBTQ rights.