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A new University of Vermont study found that 100 percent of respondents worried about their access to care after Donald Trump became president again.
James Lantz glued his hand to a railing inside the Vermont Senate after lawmakers refused to meet with him about trans youth suicides.
“It’s deeply troubling to see someone who has benefited from civil rights protections turn around and try to strip them from others,” Rep. Ritchie Torres said.
These local LGBTQ+ groups still need help making their Pride celebrations a reality.
Rep. Chris Pappas tells The Advocate why he voted for a defense bill that stripped children of military members of access to gender-affirming care.
Inside the Oversight Committee, Garcia has carved out a role as one of the most consistent and unapologetic critics of right-wing extremism.
The bill expands medical education and access to gender-affirming care in rural communities.
U.S. Rep. Emily Randall also wondered why JD Vance stood behind the president “palms up in the air as if trying to get a crowd to rise.”
“I won’t sit and watch him lie,” Vermont Democratic Congresswoman Becca Balint said.
Based on laws surrounding marriage, family rights, health care, and education, here are the 15 best states for LGBTQ+ people.
The group has been linked to six killings.
"Federal funding to institutions that provide gender-affirming care continues to be available, irrespective of President Trump’s recent Executive Order," the attorneys general say.
"Contrary to President Trump’s assertions, the policies he seeks to end do not diminish the importance of individual merit, nor do they mean that employers are lowering their standards," their joint statement says.
That will be the message of her presence and that of her fellow Democrats at Monday's inauguration, she said in a recent commentary piece.
Mark Takano, Becca Balint, Julie Johnson, and Sarah McBride have spoken about it.
“Queer people, trans people, people of color are waking up today feeling in danger,” U.S. Rep. Becca Balint said. “We need to have a full-throated declaration that we are going to be there with them.”
Donald Trump may have won in part based on lies Republicans spread about a vulnerable minority of Americans.
“I think people don’t understand the emotional and psychological toll it takes on us as openly gay members of Congress that we are in those committee hearings when people are saying horrible things about us,” Balint says.
Three Equality PAC co-chairs tell The Advocate they’re confident in her chances to carry the day.
The proposed law would safeguard one of the most fundamental rights and responsibilities of American citizens.
