Alabama House passes 'Don't Say Gay,' drag ban, and Ten Commandments bills all at once
Alabama Republicans also passed legislation banning Pride flags in schools, and prohibiting staff from using students' chosen names and pronouns.
April 18, 2025
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Alabama Republicans also passed legislation banning Pride flags in schools, and prohibiting staff from using students' chosen names and pronouns.
Melissa Calhoun is believed to be the first teacher to be fired for using a student's preferred name.
A bill in Arkansas would allow lawsuits against people who use trans kids' preferred names or give them gender nonconforming haircuts.
Students in Lee County who want to be identified by their preferred name and pronouns will have to have a form signed by their parents.
Administrators at Homestead High School in Fort Wayne have agreed to call trans teen Wyatt by his preferred name.Â
An Indiana teacher who had religious objections to using the preferred names says he was fired; the district says he resigned.
A Kansas court ruled that a school must pay a teacher $95,000 after she was suspended for refusing to call a student by their preferred pronouns and name.
The dad of a trans teen has addressed a petition to Fort Wayne's Homestead High School principal to demand they call his son by his preferred name.Â
Rep. Mary Bentley's bill would let teachers ignore students' preferred names and pronouns, and she says the state should do more in case a youth identifies "as a cat, as a furry."
Kansas math teacher Pamela Ricard sued the school district, claiming that the policy of using students' preferred pronouns violated her "religious freedom."
In response to restrictive state laws, districts including Leon County are adopting guidelines to support LGBTQ+ students.
Advocates criticized the breathtaking hypocrisy of Cruz’s Safeguarding Honest Speech Act for its potential harm to the LGBTQ+ community and pointed out the irony in his own name choice.
The court has apparently set a kind of precedent.
Stuart Kyle Duncan has long been an enemy of LGBTQ people -- he's now taken his seething animus to the federal bench.
GLAAD said it contacted the New Jersey Star-Ledger's reporter about her incorrect pronoun usage, but the writer refused to correct the story.
Scientists and health experts wanted to rename "monkeypox" to combat the homophobic and racist stigma attached to the virus.
The 14-year-old proved that some heroes do wear capes.
Parents of Luna Younger have been engaged in bitter court battle, but a jury delivered the mother a victory.
The trans comedian has wanted to use the name since she was 10 years old.