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, 2024Amended bill would add elementary, middle school and collegiate sports to limits in place for high school
By Claire Stremple, Alaska Beacon - April 16, 2024House committee advances legislation that would restrict the rights of Alaska trans kids
By Claire Stremple, Alaska Beacon - April 01, 2024A bill that could lead to LGBTQ youth being placed in families with moral or religious objections to their sexual orientation or gender identity was approved by the Tennessee Senate on Tuesday.
By Anita Wadhwani, Tennessee Lookout - March 22, 2024A bill aimed at protecting the mental health of student athletes became a bill banning transgender students from bathrooms, requiring schools to notify parents every time their child checks out a book from the school library, stopping transgender kids from participating in girls sports and banning sex education before sixth grade in a Senate committee Tuesday.
By Ross Williams, Georgia Recorder - March 20, 2024GLAAD survey also finds broader public not supportive of anti-trans policies and candidates
By Jon King, Michigan Advance - March 19, 2024Opponents of House Bill 668 said bill is discriminatory, could lead to more lawsuits
By Mia Maldonado, Idaho Capital Sun - March 14, 2024Last year, lawmakers approved the Reproductive Health Protection Act, which shields health care providers in Maryland from liability if they help out-of-state patients obtain an abortion, as long as the services provided are legal under Maryland law.
By Danielle J. Brown, Maryland Matters - February 16, 2024GOP lawmakers are continuing to advance anti-trans proposals under the guise of protecting women and minors despite the threat of a veto from Democratic Gov. Katie Hobbs.
By Gloria Rebecca Gomez, Arizona Mirror - February 14, 2024Hundreds of activists rallied in the Iowa Capitol rotunda Monday evening as lawmakers held a public hearing on Gov. Kim Reynolds’ bill defining of “male” and “female” in Iowa Code and excluding transgender people from sex-segregated spaces. House File 2389 has already passed through the committee process, and is available for debate by the House of […]
By Robin Opsahl, Iowa Capital Dispatch - February 12, 2024Recent state and local legal maneuvers signal that Texas’ conservative movement could be wading into a complicated Constitutional morass the country hasn’t dealt with since before the Civil War.
By Eleanor Klibanoff, Texas Tribune and William Melhado, Texas Tribune - February 09, 2024Added as an amendment in committee, a public hearing on the proposal has not taken place in the Senate this year
By Annelise Hanshaw, Missouri Independent - January 24, 2024Debate highlights rancor between hardline Freedom Caucus and larger House GOP Caucus
By Skylar Laird, South Carolina Daily Gazette - January 18, 2024Democratic Mayor Jim Kenney said the order is in response to the wave of legislation attacking transgender rights across the country.
By Will Fritz - October 19, 2023The bills, which would ban gender-affirming care for trans youth and sports participation for trans girls and women, will likely be vetoed by Gov. Tony Evers.
By Will Fritz - October 16, 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, 2023Erin Reed says state legislators 'are continuing to increase the ways in which they target the community.'
By Will Fritz - April 28, 2023More than 100 demonstrations took place across the country on Friday in support of trans people.
By Will Fritz - April 04, 2023Speakers at the Conservative Political Action Conference advocated for bans on gender-affirming care and the eradication of ‘transgenderism.’
By Emily Singer - March 07, 2023The Georgia Republican used a speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference to demonize transgender people.
By Emily Singer - March 03, 2023Roesener was elected to the New Hampshire state House on Tuesday, defeating an anti-LGBTQ Republican.
By Emily Singer - November 09, 2022‘Students will not stand to become politicized and will not stand to become part of the governor’s agenda or his next campaign,’ one organizer said.
By Nick Vachon - September 28, 2022