No, supporting trans rights doesn’t cost elections
Opinion: Democrats don’t lose by supporting trans rights. They lose when they fail to speak up, argues LPAC’s Rebecca Buckwalter-Poza.
September 23, 2025
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Opinion: Democrats don’t lose by supporting trans rights. They lose when they fail to speak up, argues LPAC’s Rebecca Buckwalter-Poza.
The effort is led by members of the state house GOP.
Rigorous and long-standing research demonstrates that LGBTQ+-inclusive policies support safer communities and stronger economies for everyone, while exclusionary laws worsen and limit access to essential services.
In expressing their disdain for policies pushing so-called "LGBT ideology," conservatives are actually taking a stance against anti-bullying rules.
The new policy is meant to provide a framework for the agency to create inclusive programming.
It's the latest example of the Catholic Church responding to criticisms over certain issues.
The church's Judicial Council OK'd the retention of bans on gay clergy and same-sex marriages.
The Immanuel Christian School, where the second lady teaches art, is harming young people with its anti-LGBTQ policies, writes GLAAD's Senior Director of the Media Institute, Ross Murray.
Republican state AG's, led by Tennessee's Herbert Slatery, are objecting to recent guidance on avoiding anti-LGBTQ+ and specifically anti-trans discrimination.
The discrimination is documented in a new congressional report, which comes as the Supreme Court is set to hear a case on bias in adoption and foster care.
The federal judge contends an adoption agency that won't serve LGBTQ parents doesn't really discriminate because it sends them elsewhere.
In an impassioned speech at an award ceremony last Sunday, the designer denounced Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s far-right-led coalition for ongoing measures to restrict LGBTQ+ rights.
Stanford University later apologized for the football halftime performance.
Seattle Pacific University was already under investigation, and freely admits it discriminates against LGBTQ+ applicants.
The Biden administration continues to reverse the former president's hostile policies.
The Human Rights Campaign released its Corporate Equality Index, and dozens of businesses nabbed perfect scores for the first time.
The reversal comes just two weeks after Texas legalized social worker discrimination against LGBTQ+ clients.
While the church remains anti-LGBTQ in many ways, it will no longer deny baptism to most children of same-sex couples.
A new report from the Trevor Project and the Movement Advancement Project calls for state policymakers to consider the impact of their actions.
Several residents of Caldwell, Idaho, said the policy would go against God's laws, and a state senator threatened board members with litigation.
A Catholic diocese overseeing Catholic schools in South Dakota has issued a set of policies saying LGBTQ+ identity undermines the basis of society.