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Newsmax’s Anti-LGBTQ Extremism Hits a New Low
Newsmax host Greg Kelly is facing criticism after a segment in which he denounced the LGBTQ community and questioned why movies about LGBTQ people have to exist.
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Idaho Senate Republicans Abandon Bill Banning Trans Medical Care After They Were Shamed by the Public
Idaho Senate Republicans have chosen to abandon H.B. 675, a bill banning parents from allowing their transgender children to receive gender affirming medical treatment following backlash from the general public.
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More Than 500 Florida Students Walk Out to Protest “Don’t Say Gay” Bill
More than 500 students at Winter Park High School in Orange County, Florida walked out in protest of the state’s “Don’t Say Gay” bill.
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Opinion: Texas Abortion Ban Architect Calls For Criminalizing Homosexuality
As horrific as the Texas abortion ban is, and it is horrifying, the religious architect of the law has his sights set on criminalizing homosexuality and banning same-sex marriage.
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California Announces Ban on State Travel to Five More States Over Anti-LGBTQ Laws
California Attorney General Rob Bonta (D) announced that California has added five more states, including Florida, to the list of places where state-funded travel is banned because of laws that discriminate against members of the LGBTQ community. “Make no mistake: We’re in the midst of an unprecedented wave of bigotry and discrimination in this country…
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Marjorie Taylor Greene Criticized for Latest Attack Against Transgender People
Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.), who already has a history of attacking transgender people, has been criticized for her latest attack against an already vulnerable population after she called discussions about gender “all a lie.” “It is all a lie,” she said in response to a post outlining how some gender identities do not fit…
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Biden Administration Withdraws Government Support for Lawsuit That Sought to Ban Trans Athletes from Competing in High School Sports
President Joe Biden‘s administration has withdrawn government support for a Connecticut lawsuit that seeks to ban transgender athletes from competing in high school sports. The lawsuit, which was brought forward by cisgender athletes who claimed they’d been deprived of wins, state titles, and athletic opportunities in having to compete against two transgender runners, was supported…
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Opinion: Theocracy Alert – Trump’s SCOTUS pick wants religion to play a major role in public life
Around the world there are several nations with brutally authoritarian governments that embrace the concept of imposing religion to play a major role of public life. It is what is known as theocracy and evangelical fanatics are a step closer to imposing their extremist vision of social conservatism on every aspect of all Americans’ daily…
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Opinion: Trump gives evangelicals authority to discriminate against LBGTQ seeking healthcare
Trump is determined to grant evangelical bigots the religious freedom to legally discriminate against LGBTQ+ people, and during Pride Month he used the Health and Human Services Department to do the religious right’s dirty work. When Trump gassed peaceful protestors in Washington D.C. to expedite a church visit, it was for  more than staging a…
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Cuomo Affirms Support for Transgender People After Trump Administration Rolls Back Protection
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo affirmed his state’s support for the transgender community after President Donald Trump’s administration announced it would roll back anti-discrimination rules protecting transgender individuals seeking healthcare. The Trump administration’s announcement came on the fourth anniversary of the Pulse nightclub shooting, the deadliest act of terror against LGBTQ people in American history….
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Human Rights Campaign Will Sue Trump Administration for Revoking Transgender Protections
The Human Rights Campaign (HRC) has announced it will file a lawsuit against President Donald Trump’s administration after it rolled back anti-discrimination rules protecting transgender people seeking healthcare. HRC noted in a press release that “critical civil rights protections in the rule implementing Section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act (ACA)” have been impacted by…
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Trump Just Claimed That LGBTQ People Are His Biggest Supporters
Trump told reporters that LGBTQ people gave him an award and that gay people are his biggest supporters in response to a question about his administration’s discriminatory policies.
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Trump Defeated In Court On Transgender Military Ban
A district court in Maryland has ruled that transgender military service members have legal standing and stopped Trump from blocking judicial review of his trans military ban.
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Trump Disgraces America By Refusing To Let Embassies Fly Rainbow Flags During LGBTQ Pride Month
The Trump administration has refused to allow US embassies around the world to fly the rainbow flag for LGBTQ Pride Month.
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Trump health agency proposes reversing Obamacare transgender protections
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) on Friday proposed a rule that would roll back protections for transgender patients under Obamacare, the second rule this month the agency has put forward to allow health care providers to deny services to them.
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House Democrats Make History By Passing Sweeping LGBTQ Nondiscrimination Bill
House Democrats passed a historic and sweeping LGBTQ nondiscrimination bill on Friday.
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Judge Who Issued Injunction Says There’s Still a Block on Trump’s Transgender Troops Policy
A federal judge on Tuesday contradicted the Trump administration’s “incorrect” claim that no legal blocks remain for it to enforce a contentious policy to restrict many transgender individuals from the U.S. armed forces starting on April 12.
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LGBT+ groups dismiss Trump pledge to beat HIV by 2030 as empty rhetoric
By Sonia Elks LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Donald Trump’s pledge to halt all new HIV infections in the United States within a decade was dismissed as an “empty gesture” by activists who said his administration had stripped resources from those fighting the epidemic. Critics said the promise made in the State of the Union…
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LGBT+ candidates make gains in U.S. elections
More LGBT+ candidates won in the U.S. midterm elections than ever before – and gender or sexual orientation was less of an issue than ever before, too, experts said.