Last week in LGBTQ+ rights: Nebraska restricts gender-affirming care
The Biden White House has condemned social media harassment of a Department of the Interior staffer.
By Will Fritz - October 10, 2023The Biden White House has condemned social media harassment of a Department of the Interior staffer.
By Will Fritz - October 10, 2023One bill would ban best-practice care for trans minors.
By Will Fritz and Rebekah Sager - October 06, 2023A Maryland judge ruled parents can’t opt kids out of inclusive lesson plans.
By Will Fritz - August 28, 2023Blue states aren’t immune from conservative culture wars. Here's what happened after three far-right candidates were elected to the Temecula school board.
By Will Fritz - August 24, 2023A three-judge panel of the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals overturned an injunction that had been placed on the Alabama law by a federal district judge.
By Will Fritz - August 22, 2023The ruling will force families of trans youth to take their children out of state for health care.
By Will Fritz - August 01, 2023The Republican Party and conservative activists aren't shy about saying they don't support any legal protections for trans people.
By Nick Vachon - July 07, 2023'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 right has rallied behind the anti-trans slogan in their campaign against transgender rights.
By Nick Vachon - June 08, 2023The GOP presidential hopeful made the comment during a CNN town hall Sunday night.
By Emily Singer - June 05, 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, 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, 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, 2023North Dakota’s Republican Gov. Doug Burgum on Tuesday evening signed two transgender athlete bans into law, effectively prohibiting transgender girls and women from joining female sports teams in K-12 and college. Lawmakers in the House and Senate passed the bills with veto-proof majorities this year. If the governor had vetoed the bills or refused to […]
By Associated Press - April 13, 2023A proposal to codify protections from discrimination on the basis of sex and gender identity in federal law previously stalled in the House.
By 19th News - April 01, 2023Republicans are pushing laws nationwide to restrict transgender rights.
By Oliver Willis - March 31, 2023‘Going through the wrong puberty, every day your body is a little bit farther from what feels like you,’ one trans teenager said. ‘And eventually, you don’t even recognize yourself in the mirror.’
By Associated Press - March 29, 2023There are already several proposals by congressional Republicans targeting transgender and gender-nonconforming Americans that concern community advocates.
By Josh Israel - February 23, 2023One day after a mass shooting at a Colorado LGBTQ club, Walker campaigned with a Republican official who once called LGBTQ people ‘filth.’
By Josh Israel - November 22, 2022The Georgia Republican is trying to win the Dec. 6 Senate runoff by vowing to ban transgender women from women’s sports.
By Emily Singer - November 21, 2022Republican Washington U.S. Senate candidate Tiffany Smiley is a supporter of anti-LGBTQ evangelical leader Franklin Graham and groups such as Focus on the Family.
By Matt Cohen - November 04, 2022The Republican nominee for Pennsylvania governor recently accused a children’s hospital of abuse for providing gender-affirming care.
By Emily Singer - October 31, 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‘I hope that we can organize enough people around the fact that we want our personal freedoms in this country,’ said Sykes, candidate for Ohio’s 13th Congressional District.
By Casey Quinlan - August 19, 2022Gov. Ron DeSantis’s appointees are pushing to restrict transgender health care post-Roe while ignoring advocates’ concerns.
By Casey Quinlan - August 05, 2022Anti-transgender rhetoric leads to stigma, and stigma leads to violence against our families, friends, co-workers, and neighbors.
By Lizette and Jose Trujillo - July 06, 2022Now the Republican Senate nominee in Pennsylvania, Mehmet Oz has shifted far to the right on LGBTQ issues as he runs for office.
By Josh Israel - June 09, 2022The law is part of a tidal wave of bills targeting transgender youth across the country.
By Casey Quinlan - April 14, 2022‘They’re ringing the alarms for us by saying the quiet part out loud,’ said Cathryn Oakley of the Human Rights Campaign.
By Casey Quinlan - 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, 2022