South Carolina

“Maybe I’m old fashioned…” Gov. Henry McMaster started before things went from bad to worse.

The pediatrician was forced to take unpaid leave after Republican Nancy Mace falsely claimed she wanted 4-year-olds to get hormone replacement therapy.

“We should start putting some of those parents in jail for abusing their child’s minds… start executing people!”

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

A man is still forced to register as a sex offender due to a 2001 sodomy charge, even though SCOTUS overturned such laws in 2003.

As with many other trans people violently killed, reports deadnamed and misgendered Marquiisha Lawrence following her death.

As head of Alliance Defending Freedom, Michael Farris focuses on diminishing our rights, but he’s also found time to engage in the right’s anti-democracy “Stop the Steal” push.

Thomas Hardin is believed to be the first confirmed victim of a couple that went on a month-long shooting spree around South Carolina and Missouri. She once lived with one of the suspects.

Republicans all over the country are parroting lines about transgender girls ending school sports. But they can’t even name one time it happened in their states.

A handful of Democrats in deep red states have joined forces with anti-trans extremists to support measures harming trans youth.

The religious right is using the same tactics, for the same reasons, to stop medical treatment or sports for trans youth as it has against abortion providers.

South Carolina Christian conservatives complained that a hate crimes bill about violent crimes and vandalism could “threaten religious liberty.”

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

The legislator used Martina Navratilova and “transgenderism” to speak in favor of an anti-abortion bill. The bill passed, but it didn’t even go far enough for him.

“I want every young woman to know there’s a place for you in America if… you follow traditional family structure.”

“Cunningham and Pelosi passed a law requiring transgendered equality in the military, a liberal mandate that will close” a Marine Corps base.

Graham said his Democratic opponent, Jaime Harrison, raised $6 million in the 72 hours after Ruth Bader Ginsburg passed away.

The lack of recognition for her work and leadership could be discouraging, but for Green Party VP nominee Angela Walker, it’s another reality of living proud and outside society’s conventional expectations.

The Penna/Burns family proves that celebrating Pride with loved ones has kept the LGBTQ community strong and proud.

The school refused to even say her name at the ceremony because she violated the gendered dress code.