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News (USA)
Biden administration proposes allowing some anti-trans sports discrimination in schools
LGBTQ+ reactions on the contentious issue have been mixed.
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News (USA)
Utah bans conversion therapy for minors
Gov. Spencer Cox signed the bill into law on Wednesday.
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Commentary
Has Sam Brinton’s story always been too good to be true?
Was Brinton’s story contrived or embellished to manipulate high-profile leaders and elevate themself into the upper echelons of LGBTQ+ activism?
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Commentary
Is traditional LGBTQ leadership faltering? Washington insiders think so.
We asked LGBTQ lobbyists working in DC how effective the national queer groups have been on Capitol Hill lately. Their answers might surprise you.
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News (USA)
Navy grants waiver to transgender officer who sued Trump administration
President Trump blocked trans people from enlisting or serving after surprising military leaders with a random tweet announcing his arbitrary decision.
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Politics
Arizona repeals law that forbade teachers from talking about about LGBTQ issues with students
The law had prohibited instruction in HIV/AIDS curriculum that “[p]romotes a homosexual life-style” or “[s]uggests that some methods of sex are safe methods of homosexual sex.”
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News (USA)
Jeff Sessions just signed the death warrant for LGBTQ asylum seekers
In essence, the Attorney General said it’s not America’s problem if you’re going to be killed for being gay or trans.
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News (USA)
Why have LGBT orgs filed 3 lawsuits over the trans military ban? What’s the difference?
What is legally wrong with the ban? It’s unfair, but the law has never been about fairness alone – and that’s where strategy becomes important.
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News (USA)
Transgender service members sue Trump over military ban
The five unnamed active duty service members are asking a court to block Trump’s directive immediately.
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News (USA)
Latest landmark federal court ruling supports trans students
The victory for this Wisconsin trans boy might set a nationwide precedent.
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News (USA)
10 LGBT orgs fighting Trump you should donate to on this Give OUT day
An online way to fight oppression with just a click of your finger.
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News (USA)
Gay groups are negotiating with Utah to end the state’s ‘no promo homo’ law
NCLR and Equality Utah sued the state education board last fall, saying the law creates a “chilling culture of silence that stigmatizes LGBTQ students.”
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News (USA)
Is Christian-run hospital forcing this 5-year-old transgender girl to be a boy?
Her name is Stevie, and a friend of her family says she has been “medically kidnapped” from her parents and forced to live as a boy.
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News (USA)
Activists target Utah law that forbids teachers from talking about homosexuality
The Utah law include a provision that prohibits instruction on “advocacy of homosexuality,” contraceptives and sex outside marriage.
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News (USA)
LGBTQ activists reflect on Barack Obama’s legacy of support
Obama’s administration has made more than 125 changes to regulations and policies to expand LGBTQ rights.
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Commentary
Mike Pence, Republicans, conservative Christianity, and conversion therapy
Pence and other political “leaders” who support these draconian measures should talk to people who have been impacted the most.
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News (USA)
Utah denies law forbidding talk about homosexuality in schools is anti-gay
The state has denied it has anti-gay school laws as it defends itself from a lawsuit challenging restrictions on talk about homosexuality in the classroom.
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News (USA)
Why are transgender Americans so worried about Donald Trump?
Jennifer Finney Boylan says she fears conservatives will now seek to “isolate and marginalize transgender people.”
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News (USA)
Transgender man sues loan company after executive demands he ‘dress and act like a woman’
Tristan Broussard alleges he was forced to leave his job at First Tower Loan in Lake Charles, Louisiana, offices after a company executive found out he was listed on his driver’s license as female.
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News (USA)
Civil rights groups seek class action status, demand for marriage equality in Alabama
The motion requests that the federal district court expand their lawsuit to cover all county probate judges in the state.