GOP Senate candidate touts endorsement from official who called LGBTQ people ‘filth’
North Carolina Republican Mark Walker stood by Lt. Governor Mark Robinson after he made bigoted comments about LGBTQ people.
By Josh Israel - March 16, 2022North Carolina Republican Mark Walker stood by Lt. Governor Mark Robinson after he made bigoted comments about LGBTQ people.
By Josh Israel - March 16, 2022Transgender sports bans have spread quickly through state legislatures.
By Casey Quinlan - March 10, 2022‘I am relieved that we are moving out of state and filled with anxiety for everyone who can’t escape this nightmare,’ one parent said.
By Casey Quinlan - March 03, 2022State lawmakers across the country have proposed bills offering stronger protections.
By Casey Quinlan - February 16, 2022The state’s Republican governor, Kristi Noem, championed the bill.
By Casey Quinlan - February 02, 2022The right-wing push for ‘parental rights’ in public school education has resulted in bills targeting LGBTQ-inclusive content.
By Casey Quinlan - January 27, 2022The Biden administration has accomplished a lot in the first year but more work remains, they say.
By Casey Quinlan - January 21, 2022Groups like the ‘American College of Pediatricians’ are using their professional associations to legitimize dangerous messaging about LGBTQ people.
By Casey Quinlan - January 19, 2022Trans youth targeted by discriminatory state laws could be helped by a new rule proposed by the Department of Health and Human Services, experts say.
By Casey Quinlan - January 06, 2022Sixty-six percent of Gen Z and 63% of millennial Americans think their generation is motivated to make positive change.
By Associated Press - January 02, 2022Experts say far-right activists are setting their sights on gender-affirming care providers.
By Casey Quinlan - December 16, 2021Barriers to obtaining a clear picture of violence against trans and gender-nonconforming people remain, experts say.
By Casey Quinlan - December 14, 2021Resources for educators who want to help LGBTQ youth feel safe in schools have been removed from the Florida Department of Education’s website.
By Casey Quinlan - December 07, 2021State laws targeting transgender kids have left school districts across the country in a challenging legal situation, experts say.
By Casey Quinlan - December 02, 2021Anti-LGBTQ providers are offering a disproven, harmful ‘therapy’ in Guatemala and Costa Rica as well as in the United States, according to a new investigation.
By Casey Quinlan - November 24, 2021A 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.’
By Casey Quinlan - November 22, 2021Anti-LGBTQ groups are claiming that schools are violating the rights of teachers and parents.
By Casey Quinlan - November 18, 2021George Allen is one of several anti-LGBTQ extremists helping the Virginia governor-elect prepare for his new job.
By Josh Israel - November 12, 2021The Alliance Defending Freedom has expanded its push for anti-LGBTQ and anti-woman policies internationally.
By Casey Quinlan - November 10, 2021Several LGBTQ candidates of color and transgender and nonbinary candidates made history on Tuesday.
By Casey Quinlan - November 05, 2021Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley, Gov. Kim Reynolds, and Reps. Randy Feenstra and Mariannette Miller-Meeks attended the FAMiLY Leader gala.
By Josh Israel - November 01, 2021Policymakers should not be ‘enforcing very narrowly defined conceptions of what people’s bodies should or should not look like,’ one expert said.
By Casey Quinlan - October 28, 2021Republicans in Congress are more upset at the social media website than at their colleague’s blatant transphobia.
By Josh Israel - October 25, 2021Their latest mission is to pull books with LGBTQ themes from school libraries.
By Casey Quinlan - October 22, 2021Cristina Nichole Iglesias is seeking gender-affirming surgery after waiting for years.
By Casey Quinlan - October 21, 2021Texas Democrats say the bill is cruel to transgender students and would lead to bullying.
By Casey Quinlan - October 15, 2021The Biden administration wants the VA to provide gender-affirming surgery it says would ‘save lives.’ Republicans want to stop it.
By Casey Quinlan - October 14, 2021Biggs is happy the pandemic has parents ‘waking up’ to oppose LGBTQ rights and education about racism.
By Josh Israel - October 14, 2021Anthony Sabatini is running for Congress as ‘the most conservative member of Florida’s state legislature.’
By Casey Quinlan - October 12, 2021The Biden administration announced similar changes to U.S. passports in June. Now, advocates are pushing officials to go further and extend the policy to all forms requiring gender identification.
By Casey Quinlan - October 07, 2021