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Politics
Lauren Boebert blasts sex-ed classes. Twitter reminded her she was a teen mom
She also said schools who teach about “same-sex sex” should have their funding cut.
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Life
Hannah Gadsby uses new Netflix deal to promote trans & nonbinary comedians
“In a notoriously transphobic industry, I am looking to broaden the scope of opportunities for genderqueer performers.”
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Bias Watch
Tucker Carlson calls for violence against LGBTQ supportive teachers & doctors
In Tucker’s world, mentioning LGBTQ people in the presence of children has the same long-term effects that child abuse does.
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Commentary
Young Black LGBTQ people need accurate sex education. Why are politicians trying to take that away?
“Trust us when we tell you what we need.”
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News (USA)
Parental control apps are outing kids to their parents & blocking them from LGBTQ resources
The study found that parental control apps block LGBTQ sites like The Trevor Project but allow kids to search for guns and watch OnlyFans.
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News (USA)
Montana bans trans youth from sports & puts strict limits on LGBTQ education
Montana has now made it illegal to mention gender identity or sexual orientation in schools unless parents opt-in to it in advance. Montana also became the seventh state to ban trans youth in sports.
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News (USA)
Alabama schools no longer have to teach that being gay is unhealthy & illegal
The state ended the backwards sex ed requirement to teach “from a public health perspective, that homosexuality is not a lifestyle acceptable to the general public.”
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News (USA)
Republican governor vetoes bill requiring parental permission to talk about LGBTQ people
Arizona GOP lawmakers compared talking about LGBTQ people to “an R-rated movie.” The governor stood up to them.
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News (USA)
Schools will need a parent’s permission to mention LGBTQ people in history class in Arizona
Republican legislators passed it. But will the Republican governor sign the revamped version of the state’s old “No Promo Homo” law?
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Commentary
Georgia Rep. Park Cannon is a queer “activist elected official” getting it done in the South
She was only 24 when she was first elected to the state legislature.
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Politics
Marque Snow could be the first LGBTQ person of color in the Nebraska Legislature
If LGBTQ people “don’t see someone they can relate to and they’re in a community that is always going to be the same group, then they really don’t pay attention to politics.”
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News (World)
Brazil’s president accuses World Health Organization of turning kids gay
He later deleted the social media post, but his advisors and followers continue to repeat it.
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News (USA)
Arizona’s new head of schools wants to repeal the state’s ‘no promo homo’ law
The state doesn’t let schools say anything positive about LGBTQ people. That needs to change.
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News (World)
Thousands of students walked out of school to protest sex ed classes that don’t include gays
Approximately 38,000 students participated in a planned walkout calling for “modernized” sex education, including same-sex ed.
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News (USA)
The GOP wants to make it hard for schools to acknowledge LGBTQ people exist
If Republicans have their way, parents will even have to sign a permission slip that says their kids can learn queer kids are bullied.
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News (USA)
The right wing is on a tear about sex ed for all the obvious reasons
It’s spring, and the religious right’s thoughts turn to how to stop kids from learning about sex.
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News (USA)
Conservative Christians are fighting the ‘satanic sexualization of our children’
Christian conservatives are shifting focus to ‘educational obscenity exemptions’ to stop anti-bullying and sex ed programs.
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Commentary
Conservatives are shocked — shocked! — that a college has sex education
The University of Tennessee’s “Sex Week” is drawing rightwing outrage… again.
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News (USA)
‘Activist Mommy’ claims schools are forcing kids to learn how to have anal sex
She’s asking parents to pull their kids out of public school for the day, but she homeschools her own so she won’t be participating, thank you very much.
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News (USA)
Indiana senate passes bill requiring permission slip for students to learn about LGBT people
“I think people pretty well know what’s good, and what’s proper, and what’s moral and what’s not moral,” the sponsor says.