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Joyland's Triumph Over Censorship and Anti-Trans Protests

Joyland, written and directed by Saim Sadiq, is the story of a tragic love triangle between a married couple and a transgender woman

Newly Elected House Speaker Mike Johnson

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Speaker Mike Johnson Once Tried to Stop a Queer Woman From Adopting Her Wife's Child

Johnson worked on several cases opposing LGBTQ+ rights while he was a private attorney.

Politics

Gender-Affirming Care Bans Often Modeled by Anti-LGBTQ+ Groups: Report

Their language is identical or similar to that endorsed by the Family Research Council and a newer group called Do No Harm.

Texas AM University diverse college study group

News

Texas A&M's LGBTQ Studies minor and 4-H club targeted by Republican lawmakers

Republican politicians are targeting the school’s LGBTQ Studies minor and other programs over the inclusion of queer and Black perspectives.

nervous queer Black teen being comforted by doctor during appointment

News

Why LGBTQ+ youth have high rate of mental health struggles and how to address them

That's among the informaton contained in the new Youth Mental Health Tracker, released Wednesday.

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West Virginia Republicans want to ban transgender people from public spaces, call them ‘obscene’

One bill would define trans people as “obscene matter” and make them keep their distance from schools, while another would force mental health professionals to “cure” transgender people.

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Missouri's AG Unilaterally Restricts Gender-Affirming Care

He called the care experimental and claimed that to protect children, access to gender-affirming care required his intervention.

Joyland's Triumph Over Censorship and Anti-Trans Protests

Joyland, written and directed by Saim Sadiq, is the story of a tragic love triangle between a married couple and a transgender woman

Speaker Mike Johnson Once Tried to Stop a Queer Woman From Adopting Her Wife's Child

Johnson worked on several cases opposing LGBTQ+ rights while he was a private attorney.

American Medical Assoc. President: Stop the Anti-Trans Bills

States should expand access to gender-affirming care, not criminalize it.

Ask Auntie: What does it mean to transition? This is my journey

How do you define your own path to authenticity in the face of adversity? Share your story with Auntie and know that you are never alone.

Gender-Affirming Care Bans Often Modeled by Anti-LGBTQ+ Groups: Report

Their language is identical or similar to that endorsed by the Family Research Council and a newer group called Do No Harm.

The Many Dangers of Trump's Trans Military Ban

Civil rights lawyer, Chase Strangio, weeds through the Trump lies and spin.

Gender-Affirming Surgeries Have Risen, Likely Due to Better Insurance: Study

Top surgery is more common than genital surgery, the study notes.

Texas A&M's LGBTQ Studies minor and 4-H club targeted by Republican lawmakers

Republican politicians are targeting the school’s LGBTQ Studies minor and other programs over the inclusion of queer and Black perspectives.

Why LGBTQ+ youth have high rate of mental health struggles and how to address them

That's among the informaton contained in the new Youth Mental Health Tracker, released Wednesday.

United Nations adopts historic, first-ever resolution on rights of intersex people

The resolution denounces medically unnecessary surgeries and other forms of mistreatment.

Where Will LGBTQ Rights Be in 2069?

Outright International's Aalap Shah on where our efforts should be focused during the next 50 years.

Idaho Advances Bill to Criminalize Gender-Affirming Care for Minors

The bill, passed by the House and now going to the Senate, calls for a prison sentence of up to 10 years for health care workers who authorize or provide the care.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton Launches More Attacks on Trans Community

Paxton is investigating an Austin hospital to see if it provides gender-affirming care to children and objecting to the dismissal of charges brought against a trans protester.

A Texas woman died after the hospital said it would be a “crime” to intervene in her miscarriage

Josseli Barnica is one of at least two Texas women who lost their lives after doctors delayed treating miscarriages, which fall into a gray area under the state’s strict abortion laws that prohibit doctors from ending the heartbeat of a fetus.

Judge Upholds West Virginia's Trans-Exclusionary Sports Law

The law is within the state's interest in providing athletic opportunities for girls and women, according to U.S. District Judge Joseph R. Goodwin.

West Virginia Republicans want to ban transgender people from public spaces, call them ‘obscene’

One bill would define trans people as “obscene matter” and make them keep their distance from schools, while another would force mental health professionals to “cure” transgender people.

'Conversion' Therapy Should Have No Place in the Republican Platform

Trying to turn LGBT people straight or cisgender is abuse, and the Republican Party must help ban it nationally, writes the Trevor Project's Abbe Land.

New York Passes Trans Rights Bill, Conversion Therapy Ban

Lawmakers have been trying to pass a bill banning gender identity discrimination for 16 years.

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social interventions ban

They are attaching anti-LGBTQ+ amendments to every appropriations bill that's pending.

He called the care experimental and claimed that to protect children, access to gender-affirming care required his intervention.

We cannot forget how inhumane this practice was and still is.

Joyland, written and directed by Saim Sadiq, is the story of a tragic love triangle between a married couple and a transgender woman

Johnson worked on several cases opposing LGBTQ+ rights while he was a private attorney.

States should expand access to gender-affirming care, not criminalize it.

How do you define your own path to authenticity in the face of adversity? Share your story with Auntie and know that you are never alone.

Their language is identical or similar to that endorsed by the Family Research Council and a newer group called Do No Harm.

Civil rights lawyer, Chase Strangio, weeds through the Trump lies and spin.

Top surgery is more common than genital surgery, the study notes.

Republican politicians are targeting the school’s LGBTQ Studies minor and other programs over the inclusion of queer and Black perspectives.

That's among the informaton contained in the new Youth Mental Health Tracker, released Wednesday.

The resolution denounces medically unnecessary surgeries and other forms of mistreatment.

Outright International's Aalap Shah on where our efforts should be focused during the next 50 years.

The bill, passed by the House and now going to the Senate, calls for a prison sentence of up to 10 years for health care workers who authorize or provide the care.

Paxton is investigating an Austin hospital to see if it provides gender-affirming care to children and objecting to the dismissal of charges brought against a trans protester.

Josseli Barnica is one of at least two Texas women who lost their lives after doctors delayed treating miscarriages, which fall into a gray area under the state’s strict abortion laws that prohibit doctors from ending the heartbeat of a fetus.

The law is within the state's interest in providing athletic opportunities for girls and women, according to U.S. District Judge Joseph R. Goodwin.

One bill would define trans people as “obscene matter” and make them keep their distance from schools, while another would force mental health professionals to “cure” transgender people.

Trying to turn LGBT people straight or cisgender is abuse, and the Republican Party must help ban it nationally, writes the Trevor Project's Abbe Land.

Lawmakers have been trying to pass a bill banning gender identity discrimination for 16 years.