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News (World)
14 countries ban being transgender. That’s just the tip of the iceberg.
A new international report includes the U.S. as a country where transgender rights are stagnating – similar to Guatemala, Hungary, and Mongolia.
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News (USA)
Puerto Rico would take an axe to LGBTQ rights as part of a sketchy political deal
The legislature approved countless changes in the 600-page civic code in under 10 minutes without any public debate. It looks like marriage, trans rights, and child surrogacy are all on the chopping block.
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Health and Wellness
The correct gender on a trans person’s ID could literally save their life
A new study found that trans people with the correct ID are less likely to consider suicide.
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News
Trans woman wins $50K after she was told she couldn’t live “around children”
Her realtor didn’t even want his other clients to see that he had a transgender client.
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News (World)
Trans man is fighting to not be called “mother” on his child’s birth certificate
The judge says that the word “mother” is gender-neutral. The trans dad says the term exacerbates his gender dysphoria.
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Politics
One of Trump’s bigoted, anti-LGBTQ employees will now sit on the federal bench
At age 40, new Second Circuit Judge Steven Menashi probably has at least a quarter century ahead in which he can poison the law against us.
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Politics
HUD Secretary Ben Carson denigrated trans women at the San Francisco office. It didn’t go over well.
Staffers pushed back, saying his remarks were “derogatory” while others walked out in protest after Carson referred to transgender women as “‘big, hairy men” in dresses.
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Election 2020
Cory Booker’s brother’s child is his nonbinary ‘niephew’
They “helped their uncle be someone who is more aware of specific issues facing trans youth in schools today.”
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News (World)
Now disgruntled conservatives are boycotting a grocery over an advertisement for strawberries
You can’t make this stuff up.
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Election 2020
The first Democratic primary debate moved trans rights front & center
For a party that was skittish about marriage equality not that long ago, the vocal support by for trans rights is a major step forward.