Missouri

The school district demanded the teachers stop saying that their classrooms are safe spaces for LGBTQ students.

While children can get married in Missouri, Republicans want to ban trans adults from getting the health care they need.

Republicans sneaked a last-minute amendment into a voting rights bill. One Democrat said the genital examinations would happen “over my dead body.”

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

It’s still rough out there, but there are signs of hope.

He changed his name in 2010 and his birth certificate was amended to male to reflect his new name and gender in 2014. He sued in 2015 when the district wouldn’t relent in their discriminatory policies that targeted him specifically.

While the platform has been banned on Twitter and restricted on Google, it not only remains on Facebook – it’s growing, too.

“Before I start this video, let me just put on my crown that I won fair and square because Homecoming is quite literally a popularity contest.”

“There is never a problem when a heterosexual teacher displays pictures of themselves and their spouses in a classroom but I have a flag and all hell breaks loose.”

“To God be the Glory!” wrote the staffer who got the gay history display removed, thanking the GOP for “standing for traditional family values.”