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Anti-trans athlete protestors, Charlie Kirk, anti-abortion protestors

12 far-right groups with extreme anti-LGBTQ+ positions that threaten civil rights

These groups have made it their mission to strip LGBTQ+ people of hard-fought rights the community has secured.

US Speaker of the House Mike Johnson

The person leading an actual ‘Hate America' rally every day is you, Mike Johnson

Opinion: Instead of kindness, he performs random acts of hate. Each time he invokes hate, he infects others with the same malice, writes John Casey.

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Conservative Supreme Court justices appear skeptical of Colorado’s ban on harmful ‘conversion therapy’

“We were told by pastors and Focus on the Family that we had to fix him. Instead, we taught him to hate himself. And when a child is dead, you don’t ever get to repair that,” Linda Robertson said of her late son.

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The sham of oral arguments on conversion therapy is meant to show SCOTUS is 'unbiased'

Opinion: A narrow-minded and homophobic right-wing court is poised to legalize one of the worst forms of psychological abuse ever invented, writes John Casey.

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Christian group defending LGBTQ+ conversion therapy at SCOTUS accused of using 'false evidence'

Researchers say the Alliance Defending Freedom is misrepresenting its work to harm LGBTQ+ people.

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University of Louisville caves to anti-LGBTQ+ forces twice this week

The university canceled a graduation ceremony for LGBTQ+ students and reached a reported seven-figure settlement with an anti-transgender former professor.

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U.S. activists call U.K. anti-trans ruling 'a serious blow' to human rights

Some worry it will affect trans rights in the U.S. and other countries.

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Breaking: Judge strikes down Biden's Title IX expansion to LGBTQ+ students

The judge found the regulation "fatally" flawed.

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Trans representative-elect Sarah McBride hits back on blaming transgender people for Harris defeat

Representative-elect McBride stated in response to the question on trans people and Democratic losses, "The party that was focused on culture wars and trans people was the Republican Party."

State Police stand between members of the Proud Boys and LGBTQ transgender counter protestors during a protest against gender affirming care by Vanderbilt University Medical Center at the War Memorial Plaza in Nashville Tennessee

These 24 violent extremist & anti-LGBTQ+ advocacy groups pose a danger to LGBTQ+ people

Looking at the groups that threaten drag queens, transgender people and the broader LGBTQ+ community.

Virginia West Point Public Schools building former french teacher Peter Vlaming

Virginia teacher fired for refusing to use trans student's pronouns awarded $575,000

Peter Vlaming, a former French teacher at West Point High School, filed a lawsuit in 2019 after he was fired for discriminating against a student by refusing to use his pronouns.

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Massachusetts school can in fact ban 'two genders' T-shirt, federal appeals court rules

Protecting LGBTQ+ students from discrimination overrides free speech considerations, according to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit.

Kansas Senator Roger Marshall misunderstands gender biological sex science transgender people experience discrimination

Republican Sen. Roger Marshall seeks to block Biden ban on anti-trans discrimination in health care

The GOP senator doesn't think a ban on sex discrimination in health care should include gender identity, and he's making some baseless assertions to argue his case.

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Mike Johnson supported right-wing Target boycott over LGBTQ+ merchandise

The far-right lawmaker was outraged about the ‘woke’ ideology of inclusivity during Pride Month last year.

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Just one Christian Nationalist group is behind Idaho's bans on trans care and abortion

Attacks on abortion and gender-affirming care are heavily intertwined, and one group conservative hate group continues to use its influence in Idaho.

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Mike Johnson Laments the Number of Queer Kids in GOP Fundraising Email

Johnson had made a similar statement in an interview with a right-wing activist shortly before he became House speaker.