Republicans are chipping away at LGBTQ rights in state legislatures across the country.

A Texas health program that offered mental health care and hormone treatments to trans kids has dissolved following attacks from anti-trans protesters who falsely claimed the program was ‘child abuse.’

The Biden administration is seizing illegal drugs at the U.S. border, and GOP lawmakers think that’s a bad thing.

Policymakers should not be ‘enforcing very narrowly defined conceptions of what people’s bodies should or should not look like,’ one expert said.

Their latest mission is to pull books with LGBTQ themes from school libraries.

Texas Democrats say the bill is cruel to transgender students and would lead to bullying.

The Biden administration wants the VA to provide gender-affirming surgery it says would ‘save lives.’ Republicans want to stop it.

Anthony Sabatini is running for Congress as ‘the most conservative member of Florida’s state legislature.’

Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) claimed research on gender-affirming medical treatments for transgender minors ‘harms kids,’ but studies have shown otherwise.

Utah state Rep. Merrill Nelson (R) wants birth certificates to retain the gender markers originally assigned.

Several states have passed laws targeting LGBTQ kids this year, creating what experts say are hostile school environments.

Today’s cartoon by Clay Jones.

Both Gov. Greg Abbott and the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services claim gender confirmation surgery for transgender minors is child abuse — even though such procedures are nearly nonexistent.

Officials say states will be required to affirm their commitment to NCAA nondiscrimination policies in order to host championships, even if those states have passed anti-trans sports bans.

A group that included a Republican legislative aide protested a school in Wise, Virginia, over its trans-inclusive policies.

Louisiana Republican lawmakers want to override Gov. John Bel Edwards’ veto of a trans sports ban.

The Texas Legislature is considering bills banning trans student athletes from sports teams.

‘Happy Pride. Now, abolish the damn filibuster and pass the Equality Act,’ tweeted Rep. Mondaire Jones.

Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) thinks ‘religious liberty’ should allow for discrimination against LGBTQ people.

‘This is a program that’s been around for decades. It was the same program under the Trump administration,’ said an immigration attorney in Nashville.

Rep. Brian Mast said ‘wokeness’ is ‘going to cost people’s lives in the end.’

‘Critical race theory disrupts the racial social hierarchy. And those who benefit from this hierarchy are fighting to preserve it,’ one professor said.

But he’s still on Twitter.

‘It would be building on this sense in law enforcement that they should be rounding up immigrants,’ said one immigration attorney, who called the legislation ‘profoundly dangerous.’

Republican lawmakers are adamant about completing Donald Trump’s expensive pet project.

Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) repeatedly summoned racist tropes about the coronavirus and incessantly blamed China for the outbreak.

While lawmakers debate their rights in statehouses across the nation, trans youth refused to be left out of the conversation.

The vice president has been assigned to tackle the root causes of immigration from the Northern Triangle region of Central America.

Lin Wood is targeting established Republicans, including Graham and former Gov. Nikki Haley.

Sen. Roy Blunt (R-MO) said Democrats would have an ‘easy win’ with President Joe Biden’s infrastructure bill — if they’d just cut out the two-thirds of it Republicans don’t like.