Alaska House committee advances, expands proposal to bar trans girls from girls sports
Amended bill would add elementary, middle school and collegiate sports to limits in place for high school
By Claire Stremple, Alaska Beacon - April 16, 2024LGBTQ+
'For our democracy to work, it needs to include all of us,' the Delaware state senator said in an announcement.
By Emily Singer - June 26, 2023The latest events impacting LGBTQ communities and their rights.
By Will Fritz - June 23, 2023The latest events impacting LGBTQ communities and their rights.
By Will Fritz - June 16, 2023The 33-year-old co-executive director of the social advocacy group One Pennsylvania shares their experiences as a nonbinary person working in organizing.
By Will Fritz - June 14, 2023President Joe Biden flew the pride flag from the Truman Balcony of the White House during a Saturday Pride celebration on the South Lawn.
By Emily Singer - June 12, 2023Seth Marnin will be the first openly trans male judge in the United States if confirmed.
By Will Fritz - June 12, 2023Gov. Gavin Newsom is seeking answers after the suburban school board rejected a social studies curriculum that included information about the LGBTQ rights pioneer.
By Will Fritz - June 12, 2023The right has rallied behind the anti-trans slogan in their campaign against transgender rights.
By Nick Vachon - June 08, 2023A federal judge determined that Tennessee's ban on drag shows cannot be enforced in at least one county, but the state attorney general still plans to enforce it elsewhere.
By Will Fritz - June 06, 2023Nearly the entire House and Senate Republican caucuses oppose equal rights. These 17 lawmakers take bigotry to an even higher level.
By Will Fritz and Josh Israel - June 02, 2023'Twenty years ago, when I started in politics, obviously, our community was being used as a punching bag to juice Republican turnout,' the End Citizens United president recalled, 'And we're seeing that history repeat itself right now.'
By Will Fritz - May 31, 2023Secretive right-wing donors and foundations have given millions of dollars to prominent anti-trans groups.
By Nick Vachon and Matt Cohen - May 31, 2023Legislation restricting transgender people's access to health care, school sports, and bathrooms has surged in Republican-controlled states, backed by major anti-LGBTQ groups.
By Nick Vachon - May 25, 2023Health care providers will have to stop offering any ‘transition’-related care to anyone under 18 if Gov. Greg Abbott signs the bill.
By Will Fritz - May 18, 2023Republicans in the Missouri Legislature passed a bill banning gender-affirming care for minors on May 10.
By Will Fritz - May 18, 2023‘There are plenty of nonbinary [people] and trans men who are also having abortions and who need access and should be included in the conversation,’ Cazembe Murphy Jackson said.
By Rebekah Sager and Will Fritz - May 18, 2023Experts say Tucker Carlson had one of the largest audiences in American media and he used it to further conspiracy theories and bigoted views.
By Will Fritz - May 15, 2023The Supreme Court ruled in an opinion by Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson that the 5th Circuit was wrong to rule against Estrella Santos-Zacaria.
By Associated Press - May 13, 2023Kansas City’s new sanctuary status sets it apart as a Democratic-leaning city in a state with a Republican governor and GOP-controlled Legislature.
By Associated Press - May 12, 2023The Food and Drug Administration guidelines finalized Thursday ease decades-old restrictions designed to protect the blood supply from HIV.
By Associated Press - May 12, 2023The Safety in Private Spaces Act would allow trans people to be criminally charged for using certain bathrooms.
By Will Fritz - May 05, 2023The first transgender legislator elected in the state's history was barred from the House floor, and she'll now have to be reelected before she can return in 2025.
By Associated Press - May 04, 2023A county judge issued a temporary restraining order against Missouri’s Republican Attorney General preventing his emergency order from going into effect for at least another two weeks.
By Associated Press - May 02, 2023Montana Republicans banned Zephyr, a trans woman and freshman state legislator, from being in the House chamber after she spoke up against anti-trans legislation.
By Associated Press - May 02, 2023This is at least the third bill targeting transgender youth signed into law under Gov. Kevin Stitt.
By Associated Press - May 02, 2023Erin Reed says state legislators 'are continuing to increase the ways in which they target the community.'
By Will Fritz - April 28, 2023'The attack in Montana on Rep. Zephyr is an attack on all of us,' said Nebraska state Sen. Megan Hunt.
By Associated Press - April 27, 2023Gov. Ron DeSantis asked the board to ban classroom instruction on gender identity and sexual orientation through all grades.
By Associated Press - April 19, 2023The 'emergency regulation' issued by Andrew Bailey adds several hurdles patients must get past if they’re seeking gender-affirming care, including being screened for 'social contagion.'
By Will Fritz - April 14, 2023H.B. 1469, which would protect those who travel to Washington for health care services from legal repercussions in other states, now goes to Democratic Gov. Jay Inslee for his signature.
By Will Fritz - April 13, 2023