This Week in The Resistance: A Gathering Storm Against Trump

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        This Week in The Resistance: A Gathering Storm Against Trump
    Five weeks in, the people are fed up.
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 Angela Jude
          
          Mar 03, 2017
          
        
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    The Loy Norrix High School student says the school district did nothing to protect them or investigate claims they were being assaulted and harassed.
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        New York AG orders major medical center to resume gender-affirming care for youth
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This Week in The Resistance: A Gathering Storm Against Trump

Five weeks in, the people are fed up.

The Latest

D.C. federal judge signals urgency as trans service members push for Trump military ban trial

Judge Ana Reyes gave the Department of Justice one week to respond to the plaintiff's scheduling request.

Nonbinary student sues Michigan school district for allegedly ignoring years of reported bullying

The Loy Norrix High School student says the school district did nothing to protect them or investigate claims they were being assaulted and harassed.

New York AG orders major medical center to resume gender-affirming care for youth

NYU Langone ceased its trans health program for youth two weeks prior.

Christian nationalism’s role in the war with Iran — and U.S. LGBTQ+ rights

Opinion: When war is preached as a moral mission, the line between fighting extremism and reproducing it begins to disappear.

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Advocates warn that the proposals targeting employment protections, health care, marriage equality, and Pride displays could reshape life for LGBTQ+ Tennesseans.

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"I don't know that we'll have time for you to respond because I'm giving you a performance evaluation here," Sen. Thom Tillis, a North Carolina Republican, told the DHS secretary.

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This Week in The Resistance: A Gathering Storm Against Trump

Five weeks in, the people are fed up.

FROM OUR SPONSORS

The Latest

Judge Ana Reyes gave the Department of Justice one week to respond to the plaintiff's scheduling request.

The Loy Norrix High School student says the school district did nothing to protect them or investigate claims they were being assaulted and harassed.

NYU Langone ceased its trans health program for youth two weeks prior.

Opinion: When war is preached as a moral mission, the line between fighting extremism and reproducing it begins to disappear.

LGBTQ+ stories deserve to betold.

More For You

Most Popular

The Texas Republican championed a federal ban on Medicaid coverage for gender-affirming care for minors.

Advocates warn that the proposals targeting employment protections, health care, marriage equality, and Pride displays could reshape life for LGBTQ+ Tennesseans.

"I don't know that we'll have time for you to respond because I'm giving you a performance evaluation here," Sen. Thom Tillis, a North Carolina Republican, told the DHS secretary.

The Austin lawmaker advances to November's election as a pro-LGBTQ+ equality Democrat.

Jill Collen Jefferson, the founder of JULIAN, explains what happens when a transgender woman’s death is ruled a suicide and a community calls it something else.

The Beatles star revealed that Yoko Ono once suggested her husband was gay.