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Transgender activists have flooded a Utah tip line created to alert state officials to possible violations of a new � bathroom law � with thousands of hoax reports in an effort to shield trans ...
by Associated Press
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on Wed May 08, 2024 at 09:30 AM PDT
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The rights of LGBTQ+ students will be protected by federal law and victims of campus sexual assault will gain new safeguards under rules finalized Friday by the Biden administration. The new provisions are part of a revised Title IX regulation issued...
by Associated Press
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on Fri Apr 19, 2024 at 08:28 AM PDT
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West Virginia's transgender sports ban violates the rights of a teen athlete under Title IX, the federal civil rights law that prohibits sex-based discrimination in schools, an appeals court ruled ...
by Associated Press
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on Tue Apr 16, 2024 at 12:43 PM PDT
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It is hard to rationalize Idaho’s or any state’s compelling interest in criminalizing Transgender Treatment for Minors, legislation directed solely at a tiny minority group seeking medical intervention for identified and diagnosed conditions. Idaho’s...
by Grandpa Fred
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on Tue Apr 16, 2024 at 08:33 AM PDT
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The Supreme Court is allowing Idaho to enforce its ban on gender-affirming care for transgender youth while lawsuits over the law proceed, reversing lower courts. The justices' order Monday allows the state to put in a place a 2023 law that subjects...
by Associated Press
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on Mon Apr 15, 2024 at 02:56 PM PDT
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Speaking at his propaganda rally held in Green Bay, Wisconsin Tuesday night, serial blasphemer Donald Trump declared November 5th to be “Christian Visibility Day”, presumably on the belief that a majority of Christians will vote for him to return to...
by JGibson
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on Thu Apr 04, 2024 at 01:01 AM PDT
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In November 2019, I visited friends in Costa Rica. When they took me from the way-too-hot Pacific coast to the cool cloud forests of Mt. Chirripo, the tallest mountain in the country, I was smitten. I canceled my plane ticket home and rented a room in...
by shamansays
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on Sun Mar 31, 2024 at 08:39 PM PDT
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Yep, I am taking a break from my usual bashing of the Transphobic Criminal Douche and Qpublicans to celebrate Trans Day of Visibility. As a Transgender Woman, this is a special day for Transgender people like me. Moved to Florida and am trying to find...
by Lady Courtney
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on Sat Mar 30, 2024 at 05:51 PM PDT
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What happened to the “preservation of life, and liberty, and the pursuit of happiness” in one-half of our United States? Wyoming just became the 24th state banning physicians from performing gender transitioning and gender reassignment procedures for...
by C0RI0LANUS
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on Mon Mar 25, 2024 at 03:45 AM PDT
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In 2023, Montana State Representative Zooey Zephyr was barred from the house floor after unapologetically telling her colleagues that passing a trans youth care ban would result in the legislature ...
by JustJaelynn
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on Mon Mar 04, 2024 at 05:00 AM PST
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Republican lawmakers in several states have resurrected and expanded the fight over whether transgender people may use bathrooms and other facilities that do not match their sex assigned at birth.
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by KFF Health News
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on Sat Mar 02, 2024 at 01:59 PM PST
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Joe Biden has been passionate in his support of transgender people. �Even when it is not popular or easy. For example, as NBC News reported in March 2021: Biden issues first presidential ...
by GoodNewsRoundup
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on Mon Mar 25, 2024 at 04:30 AM PDT
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On February 7, 2024, 16-year-old non-binary student Nex Benedict was beaten in a bathroom at Owasso High School in Owasso, OK by three other students. According to text messages sent to a family member by Nex, the beating came after they responded to...
by Gemina13
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on Mon Feb 26, 2024 at 10:04 PM PST
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This news story is finally beginning to see the light of day, something I wondered whether or not it was going to happen or if Nex was going to be another victim who's death was buried in a mudslide of passive language and apathy. I'm transgender...
by A Bleeding God
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on Sat Feb 24, 2024 at 11:52 AM PST
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By Kate Sosin, Nadra Nittle
Originally published by The 19th
As news broke this week about the death of 16-year-old nonbinary student Nex Benedict, who died after a fight in a school bathroom, ...
by The19th
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on Sat Feb 24, 2024 at 09:59 AM PST
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According to the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security, and Law: “stochastic terrorism involves ‘the use of mass media to provoke random acts of ideologically motivated violence that are statistically predictable but individually...
by VPSReports
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on Sun Feb 18, 2024 at 11:57 PM PST
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By now everyone has heard about the Florida DMV refusing to let transgender people change the gender marker on their license to reflect the gender they identify as. Of course I am outraged and pissed off by this as a Transgender Woman myself. But what...
by Lady Courtney
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on Fri Feb 09, 2024 at 03:14 PM PST
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In a story that’s equal parts pathos, hilarity, and uneaten seven-layer mayonnaise salad, The Daily Beast recounts the last days of a Pennsylvania Moms for Liberty chapter that once boasted 200 ...
by Aldous J Pennyfarthing
87 comments
on Thu Feb 08, 2024 at 02:45 PM PST
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Appearing on right-wing media outlets Fox “News” and Newsmax on Tuesday to talk about the anti-trans bill deceitfully called the “Protection of Women in Olympic and Amateur Sports Act” he co-sponsored in the Senate with Rep. Greg Steube (R-FL) on the...
by JGibson
25 comments
on Tue Feb 06, 2024 at 02:17 PM PST
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FL Democratic Congressional Delegation to President Biden: Protect Trans Floridians with Real ID Act In a rare step illustrating the utterly cruel anti-trans laws being passed by Republican legislatures, the entire Florida Democratic Congressional Delegation wrote a letter urging the Biden Administration to protect transgender Floridians who are about...
by CyberMindGrrl
31 comments
on Sat Feb 03, 2024 at 09:45 AM PST
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