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Hundreds attended a Deerfield school board meeting to support a trans student after the Department of Education launched an investigation into her locker room use.
Maintenance staff had to put up then take down 117 signs across campus, bringing the total cost of labor and materials to $16,000.
Trans state Rep. Zoey Zephyr hailed the order blocking House Bill 121, which codified male and female genders and banned trans folks from using "restrooms, changing rooms, and sleeping quarters" that aligned with their gender identity.
A 20-year-old resident of Illinois was taken into custody by Capital police and charged with trespassing after she tried to use a women’s restroom at the state Capitol building last month.
A lot of states are passing laws that target the LGBTQ+ community — but these 15 are the absolute worst.
The Bridesmaids director pledged $300,000 to The Trevor Project, Trans Lifeline, and It Gets Better.
Most Americans support banning gender-affirming care for youth and preventing trans athletes from participating on teams that align with their identity — yet they also support anti-discrimination laws protecting trans people.
A new study proves that transgender people are more likely to face harassment when using bathrooms that align with their sex assigned at birth than in facilities that match their identities.
Senate Bill 63 sought to ban gender-affirming care for transgender minors diagnosed with gender dysphoria while allowing the same treatments to continue for cisgender minors with other conditions.
“All are welcome to use our restroom regardless of gender identity or expression, political ideology, or shoe size,” U.S. Rep. Emily Randall said.
The anti-LGBTQ+ Republican lawmakers followed a cisgender woman they mistook as the first transgender member of Congress into the bathroom.
The anti-trans Republican from Georgia took objection to a video posted by Libs of TikTok showing McBride reading to children from the book I Am Jazz.
Over 400 human rights organizations had asked the Republican-controlled chamber to reject the bill, which "does not address the longstanding barriers all girls and women have faced in their pursuit of athletics."
"It defies understanding, except for the fact that it's a pretty obvious part of a politics of misdirection and distraction," McBride said of Republicans' proposed federal anti-trans legislation.
Ahead of the inauguration, The Advocate asked young trans people about the biggest challenges facing them – and what the rest of us can do to help.
McBride thanked her fellow Delaware representatives for helping her "realize the awesome responsibility and the awesome opportunity that we have to leave this state better and kinder than we found it."
Voters in this city rejected three incumbent City Council members just one month after they voted to implement a harsh anti-trans bathroom ban, replacing one with the city's first out gay council member.
About 15 activists were arrested in the U.S. Capitol today while protesting Republicans' transgender bathroom ban with a sit-in.
Zephyr tells The Advocate about Republicans' Capitol Hill bathroom ban, the state of trans rights, and a new documentary about her censure, Seat 31: Zooey Zephyr.
Nancy Mace's political stunt targeting Sarah McBride's bathroom use comes just a year after Mace said "I'm pro-transgender rights. I'm pro-LGBTQ."
