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🚨 Transgender people who have served the United States in uniform in the military will no longer be treated with dignity at Veterans Affairs facilities. The Department of Veterans Affairs rescinded Directive 1341, a policy that for years ensured transgender, nonbinary, and intersex veterans received respectful, clinically appropriate health care.
💡 Those resolutions being proposed in state legislatures urging the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn marriage equality aren’t happening organically. Instead, they’re the result of an orchestrated campaign by MassResistance, one of the most virulently anti-LGBTQ+ groups in existence. Here's what you need to know about the group.
🤔 The MAGA world seems to have discovered the virtue of diversity and inclusion after Vice President JD Vance’s arrival at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., on Thursday night was met with a loud and sustained chorus of boos. But in a move no one saw coming, Kennedy Center interim President Richard Grenell—Trump’s handpicked culture warrior—responded by calling for “diversity and inclusion.” Yes, you read that right.
Onwards and upwards,
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Trump's VA rescinds policy treating transgender vets with dignity (exclusive)
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Trump culture warrior Ric Grenell calls for ‘diversity & inclusion’ after JD Vance got booed at Kennedy Center
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Wisconsin conservative admits he was wrong about his anti-trans beliefs — this was all it took
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Teen targeted by homophobic school board member now running for his job
Elizabeth Lewis for Mohonasen school board (provided photo via Times Union); Courtesy Mohonasen Central School District, communications office
Local residents call out North Carolina school board that banned LGBTQ+ trivia quiz
footage still via Cleveland County Schools
Andy Beshear lambastes Gavin Newsom for hosting Steve Bannon on podcast
Newsom: Sheila Fitzgerald/Shutterstock; Beshear: courtesy Andy Beshear
Who is MassResistance, the far-right group behind anti-marriage equality resolutions?
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