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Trans Teen Wins Championship After State Limits Him to Wrestling Girls
Some of those watching the match booed Mack Beggs when he easily defeated his female opponent to win the state championship. 
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Trans Teen Wins Championship After State Limits Him to Wrestling Girls

Some of those watching the match booed Mack Beggs when he easily defeated his female opponent to win the state championship.

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The policy does not negate the U.S. Supreme Court's Bostock ruling which found that discrimination in the workplace based on sexual orientation or gender identity is unconstitutional.

The Beatles star revealed that Yoko Ono once suggested her husband was gay.

Saturday Night Live is being called out by a Tourette syndrome advocacy group due to a controversial skit that was responsive to a racial slur incident at the BAFTAs.

Jill Collen Jefferson, the founder of JULIAN, explains what happens when a transgender woman’s death is ruled a suicide and a community calls it something else.

LGBTQ+ stories deserve to betold.

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The far-right influencer for months accused the CEO of Turning Point USA of being involved in her husband, Charlie Kirk's, murder.

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