West Virginia

“I’m proud to stand for transgender and gender non-conforming people in the state,” said Peyton Rose Michelle, who won in Louisiana.

She is the first trans person elected to public office in the state.

He said same-sex marriage and abortion are “abominations” and that America’s “reckoning” has come.

Former judge Karl Alexander was “persuaded over the years” to buy an AR-15 rifle for a white supremacist felon because of their romantic relationship.

Virginia just passed a slate of LGBTQ bill, while Jerry Falwell Jr. wants conservative counties to secede and join West Virginia because the state is getting too progressive.

A pastor complained that the book “is a deliberate attempt to indoctrinate young children, especially boys, into the LGBTQA lifestyle.”

A mother is suing a West Virginia school board for allegedly doing nothing to protect her gay son from physical, verbal, and sexual abuse.

He was trying to ban conversion therapy in one of the most conservative states and made himself a target of the religious right political machine that dominates the party.

The school official demanded the boy pee in a urinal to “prove” that he shouldn’t use the girls’ room. The school has looked the other way.

The vice principal won his appeal to get back to his job, even though he has “shown a troubling lack of remorse.”