Kentucky

“I feel unsafe to return to the classroom.”

“I’m tired. I’ve fought for so long for kids to feel human, to be safe, to have hope. I don’t know how much longer I can do it.”

The assignment said to write a letter to “a friend of your same gender who is struggling with homosexuality” and use “the Bible, reason, and your personal friendship” to talk them out of being gay.

According to her own parents, she’s not a particularly gifted athlete, but the middle schooler is now banned from playing on the field hockey team she helped create.

“She started her school’s field hockey team, recruited all of the other team members…. Now Kentucky lawmakers have intervened to stop her from playing with her friends her eighth-grade year.”

“If y’all protected human rights like you protect sports, this world would be a better place over night.”

The Gov. said lawmakers passed the bill “without presenting a single instance in Kentucky of a child gaining a competitive as a result of sex reassignment.”

The bills would make it harder – or even ban – presenting books in class that talk about LGBTQ people.

S.B. 83 seeks to ban trans girls in 6th grade through college from competing in school sports on women’s teams.

The case has dragged on for years. A jury trial now must take place to determine damages.

“I looked back at the life I’ve had, the advocacy work I’ve done, my life experiences…[and I realized] this aligns.”

Sunrise Children’s Services is refusing to sign the state’s standard contract unless they get a “religious exemption” to discriminate against gays, putting hundreds of kids at risk.

He said his “moral objections to homosexual marriage” led him to posting the sign refusing gay couples.

From school sports to putting doctors in prison for treating trans patients, lawmakers in these states want to make people’s lives harder.

Apparently, myopia is a result of sin, so be suspicious of kids with glasses.

There are 5 conservative Supreme Court justices now, so he’s asking them to ban same-sex couples from marrying.

Phillip Wheeler probably thought the stunt would get him and his fellow Republican ahead in the polls. Instead, people want his resignation.

The former U.S. Representative lied about sending the letter and then got caught practicing law with a suspended license.

The man entered an LGBTQ Studies class to give out conversion therapy pamphlets. But the administration said that he’s not a threat because he’s married and bought a house.

A Christian nationalist group’s concerted effort to create cut-and-paste measures has done all the work for Republicans targeting trans youth and promoting religious liberty across the country.