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        8 LGBT Jews You Should Know
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          Dec 13, 2017
          
        
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        Idaho Republicans pass House bill forcing doctors to out transgender kids
    The Idaho House passed legislation requiring teachers, medical providers, and other professionals to notify parents if a minor trusts them with their gender identity.
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        Florida Republicans pass bill empowering Ron DeSantis to oust local officials who support LGBTQ+ Pride
    The legislation restricts local diversity programs and could allow the governor to suspend city or county leaders who promote Pride or LGBTQ+ initiatives.
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        Trump’s anti-trans SAVE Act saves no one and threatens everyone
    Opinion: New provisions to an election bill targeting transgender people underline how new voter identity requirements will disproportionately impact marginalized people.
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        Orlando tears down ‘horrific’ Pulse sign. Survivor Brandon Wolf says it once meant safety
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Idaho Republicans pass House bill forcing doctors to out transgender kids

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The legislation restricts local diversity programs and could allow the governor to suspend city or county leaders who promote Pride or LGBTQ+ initiatives.

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Opinion: New provisions to an election bill targeting transgender people underline how new voter identity requirements will disproportionately impact marginalized people.

Orlando tears down ‘horrific’ Pulse sign. Survivor Brandon Wolf says it once meant safety

The HRC press secretary, whose close friends were killed in the 2016 massacre, says the moment is painful but signals long-delayed progress toward a memorial for the 49 victims.

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The Idaho House passed legislation requiring teachers, medical providers, and other professionals to notify parents if a minor trusts them with their gender identity.

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LGBTQ+ stories deserve to betold.

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The unsolved murder, dubbed the “gay Black Dahlia,” was cracked wide open by director Rachel Mason after 25 years.

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.

These are some of his worst comments about LGBTQ+ people made by Charlie Kirk.

In Kids, Wait Till You Hear This!, the legendary performer details descending into an impassioned, drug-fueled affair with the filmmaker during the filming of the 1977 movie musical New York, New York.

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

Mental health care providers in Texas risk their license if they deliver care related to transitioning to minors, the Republican attorney general who is running for U.S. Senate wrote.