Florida Republicans want to force trans adults to wait to receive gender-affirming care
Gov. Ron DeSantis’s appointees are pushing to restrict transgender health care post-Roe while ignoring advocates’ concerns.
By Casey Quinlan - August 05, 2022Gov. Ron DeSantis’s appointees are pushing to restrict transgender health care post-Roe while ignoring advocates’ concerns.
By Casey Quinlan - August 05, 2022Republican luminaries such as Matt Gaetz, Marjorie Taylor Greene, and Ted Cruz took to the stage in Tampa to spew slurs and insults for an appreciative audience.
By Adrian Cole - July 26, 2022‘The governor doesn’t make the law,’ said Shelly Skeen of Lambda Legal. ‘The family code in fact says that parents should be providing medically necessary care to their kids.’
By Casey Quinlan - July 07, 2022‘We’re not seeing a whole lot of common sense in his policies. He tends to toss aside serious ideas about climate change as just left-wing politics,’ said Sierra Club Florida political director Luigi Guadarrama.
By Adrian Cole - July 06, 2022Judge John Cooper noted that the Florida Constitution’s provision on the right to privacy ‘is clearly implicated in a woman’s decision of whether or not to continue her pregnancy.’
By Adrian Cole - June 30, 2022Anti-LGBTQ Republicans have turned their attention to falsely accusing drag performers of ‘grooming’ children for sexual abuse.
By Casey Quinlan - June 21, 2022Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis denied funding for new personnel for the state’s licensing division.
By Adrian Cole - June 06, 2022Ron DeSantis’ campaign had previously said it would not take any money from Steven Alembik.
By Adrian Cole - May 13, 2022TransSOCIAL in Florida and the HiDad Project in Arizona are two of the groups providing assistance to LGBTQ people.
By Casey Quinlan - May 05, 2022President Joe Biden acknowledged that the potential decision in Dobbs would have consequences for other civil and human rights issues.
By Oliver Willis - May 03, 2022Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis said, ‘I can tell you that before I am done as governor, we will have a signature on that bill.’
By Adrian Cole - May 02, 2022Florida’s Republican governor has passed a flurry of bills this month attacking abortion rights, LGBTQ rights, and voting rights, making districts less representative, and creating a police force just for elections.
By Adrian Cole - April 28, 2022Charlie Crist demanded transparency about the Florida Department of Education’s reasons for banning of math textbooks.
By Adrian Cole - April 22, 2022The Republican Florida senator has taken at least $9,000 from Disney’s corporate PAC this election cycle alone.
By Josh Israel - April 21, 2022Legislation banning LGBTQ content in schools harms teachers as well as students.
By Casey Quinlan - April 20, 2022Nevada Senate candidate Adam Laxalt has a long history of opposing the civil rights of LGBTQ people.
By Josh Israel - April 06, 2022The Walt Disney Company announced that its ‘goal as a company’ is for Florida’s new anti-LGBTQ law ‘to be repealed by the legislature or struck down in the courts.’
By Oliver Willis - March 31, 2022Unfortunately for Republicans, the vast majority of Americans still support LGBTQ rights.
By Oliver Willis - March 18, 2022The Florida Republican is defending his party’s harmful ‘Don’t Say Gay’ legislation.
By Josh Israel - March 15, 2022Today’s cartoon from Clay Jones.
By Clay Jones - March 04, 2022Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis wants to shut down centers assisting undocumented migrant children in Florida.
By Oliver Willis - February 24, 2022Florida is among many states in which Black neighborhoods have been destroyed by highway construction.
By Oliver Willis - February 01, 2022Rep.-elect Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick improved on President Joe Biden’s 2020 margin of victory in Florida’s 20th Congressional District.
By Josh Israel - January 12, 2022Resources 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, 2021After ending pandemic-related unemployment benefits, some Republican officials now want assistance for workers who were fired for refusing to get vaccinated.
By Jacob Gardenswartz - October 25, 2021Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis previously called the Texas law ‘interesting’ and said he would ‘look more significantly at it.’
By Emily Singer - September 22, 2021As it assails mandates, Fox News requires daily screenings of its employees who don’t provide evidence of vaccination.
By Oliver Willis - September 10, 2021The Centers for Disease Control recommends wearing masks for all who are unvaccinated, including children.
By Oliver Willis - September 01, 2021GOP nominees’ embrace of Ron DeSantis-style policies is not winning over voters.
By Josh Israel - August 20, 2021Florida Education Commissioner Richard Corcoran said he feared masks would impact kids’ ‘health.’
By Emily Singer - August 18, 2021