Roger Severino

One of Glenn Youngkin’s transition co-chairs previously led the Heritage Foundation when they hired ex-VP Mike Pence. Another wrote Virginia’s defunct same-sex marriage ban.

Conservatives are making more noise about Becerra, a supporter of LGBTQ rights and reproductive rights, than they did about Pete Buttigieg.

Some of Trump’s worst anti-LGBTQ extremists, including the head of the Voice of America, have gotten the “you’re fired” treatment their old boss loved so much.

The rule would have even allowed hospital receptionists to refuse to work with someone if it violated their sincerely held religious beliefs.

Earlier this week it was announced that the HHS Office of Civil Rights would be restructured to serve as a “law enforcement agency” for the religious right.

HHS’s attacks on Planned Parenthood and LGBTQ rights follow the department’s increasingly religious right agenda.

Roger Severino has been attacking transgender rights for a decade. Now he can inflict the damage he’s dreamed of.

The healthcare of transgender Americans in a holding pattern – and may put many at risk once again for less affordable and less effective care.

The head of the HHS civil rights office wants providers to have the right to discriminate, and the CDC nominee has been affiliated with an antigay AIDS group.

And it’ll cost over $125 million every year after that.

The office is intended to give far right Christians a license to discriminate against LGBT people and pregnant women.

The President sent a note to the Log Cabin Republicans and within days the administration was repeatedly attacking LGBT rights again.

Even ambulance drivers could refuse to transport an LGBT person to the hospital if they cite their “religious freedom.”

Matt Baume offers a quick, queer debrief of the week’s news for the LGBTQ community.

The former Heritage Foundation staffer actively opposed the ACA’s civil rights protections and has fought against transgender rights, marriage equality, and abortion access.