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Newsom calls trans athletes playing in women's sports 'deeply unfair' 

California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) said he believes transgender athletes participating in girls’ and women’s sports is “deeply unfair,” breaking...

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Student group challenges Texas A&M drag ban

A group of students is suing the Texas A&M University System after a vote last week banned all drag performances from taking place on its 11...

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GOP bill to ban trans athletes from women’s sports blocked in Senate 

Legislation to prevent transgender athletes from participating in girls’ and women’s sports failed to advance in the Senate on Monday after all...

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Iowa governor signs nation's first bill removing transgender civil rights protections

Iowa became the first state to strike anti-discrimination protections for transgender people from its civil rights code on Friday after the state’s...

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Thune says Senate will consider bill to restrict trans athletes 'early next week'

Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) says legislation to prevent transgender athletes from participating in girls’ and women’s sports will...

28.02.2025 4

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Iowa lawmakers vote to remove gender identity as a protected class 

Iowa’s Republican-led Legislature voted Thursday to remove gender identity as a protected class from the state’s civil rights code, sending the...

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Bondi warns states to comply with Trump order on transgender athletes

Attorney General Pam Bondi warned officials in Maine, California and Minnesota on Tuesday to comply with President Trump’s executive orders to bar...

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Whitmer on Republican lawmaker's same-sex marriage resolution: 'Hell no'

Michigan Democrats, including Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, are pushing back against a Republican-led resolution asking the Supreme Court to reverse its...

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Supreme Court declines to take up challenge to Tennessee law restricting drag shows

The Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear a challenge to a Tennessee law restricting some drag performances, allowing the first-in-the-nation...

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Actress Hunter Schafer says she was issued a male passport

Hunter Schafer, one of Hollywood’s most visible transgender stars, said she was issued a U.S. passport with a male gender marker after her original...

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Trump threatens to withhold federal funds from Maine over transgender athletes

President Trump is threatening to withhold federal funds from Maine if it continues allowing transgender athletes to compete in girls’ and women’s...

21.02.2025 4

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LGBTQ health groups sue Trump over orders targeting diversity, transgender rights

Nine LGBTQ, health and HIV organizations sued the Trump administration Thursday over three executive orders targeting transgender people and...

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Kennedy Center cancels Pride performance featuring Gay Men’s Chorus of Washington

The Kennedy Center canceled an upcoming performance set to feature the Gay Men’s Chorus of Washington, which the center said was due to financial...

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Education Department investigating Northern Virginia school districts for transgender support policies

The Education Department is investigating whether five Northern Virginia school districts violated Title IX and one of President Trump’s recent...

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House Democrats call on Trump, Hegseth to reverse trans military ban

A group of House Democrats is urging President Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to halt enforcement of a ban on transgender service members. ...

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Kansas governor vetoes ban on gender-affirming care for minors

Kansas’s Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly vetoed a proposal to ban gender-affirming care for transgender youth for the third consecutive year, setting up...

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3 states sue Trump administration over gender-affirming care order 

Three states and three physicians sued the Trump administration Friday over an executive order meant to slash federal support for gender-affirming...

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Democratic attorneys general pledge to protect gender-affirming care following Trump order

More than a dozen Democratic state attorneys general on Wednesday affirmed their support for gender-affirming health care for transgender youth after...

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Families sue Trump administration over order to ban gender-affirming care 

Seven families with transgender children sued the Trump administration Tuesday over an executive order meant to broadly restrict access to...

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New York AG warns hospitals against suspending gender-affirming care

New York’s Democratic Attorney General Letitia James warned hospitals Monday that prematurely pausing gender-affirming care for transgender minors...

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White House celebrates reports of hospitals pausing gender-affirming care

The White House on Monday celebrated reports that some hospitals have stopped providing gender-affirming care to transgender youth in response to an...

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McBride: Trump administration using transgender people 'as a pawn'

Rep. Sarah McBride (D-Del.), the first openly transgender person elected to Congress, on Friday condemned recent executive orders issued by President...

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Federal workers told to remove pronouns from email signatures

Employees at federal agencies were instructed to remove pronouns from their email signatures by the end of the workday Friday, according to internal...

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Judge blocks transfer of transgender woman to men's facility

A Massachusetts judge has temporarily blocked federal prison officials from transferring an incarcerated transgender woman to a men’s facility and...

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Trump issues executive order to ban gender-affirming care for minors 

President Trump on Tuesday signed a sweeping executive order meant to broadly restrict access to gender-affirming care for transgender children and...

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Five Takeaways on Trump’s order on transgender military service 

President Trump on Monday signed an executive order effectively barring transgender people from serving openly in the military, renewing a policy he...

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Bessent makes history at Treasury as highest-ranking LGBTQ official

The Senate on Monday confirmed billionaire hedge fund manager and investor Scott Bessent as President Trump’s Treasury secretary, making him the...

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Trump to sign executive order banning transgender people from military service

President Trump is expected to sign an executive order Monday barring transgender people from serving openly in the military, part of a broader effort...

27.01.2025 30

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Trump World descends on bishop who pleaded for 'mercy'

President Trump and Republicans this week slammed a plea for "mercy" by Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde during a Tuesday morning prayer service, calling it...

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Bishop says she doesn't 'hate' Trump, refuses to apologize

Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde, who made waves this week for asking President Trump to “have mercy” on LGBTQ children and immigrants during a prayer...

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Calls to LGBTQ youth crisis hotline rose 33 percent on Inauguration Day: Trevor Project

The Trevor Project, a leading LGBTQ youth suicide prevention organization, said calls and text messages to its crisis intervention hotline had risen...

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Five takeaways on Trump's executive actions on gender

President Trump signed a sweeping executive order late Monday during his first hours in office recognizing only two sexes and preventing government...

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Trump signs executive order recognizing only two sexes

President Trump signed a sweeping executive order Monday during his first hours in office recognizing only two sexes, male and female, and directing...

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Justices agree to hear Maryland case on parents' rights and LGBTQ books

The Supreme Court said Friday it would review a case involving a group of Maryland parents who sued their children’s school district over its...

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Crockett to Mace on anti-trans push: 'Maybe start serving your constituents' 

Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas) during a Wednesday evening appearance on MSNBC’s “The ReidOut” denounced Rep. Nancy Mace’s (R-S.C.) frequent...

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Christopher Street Project wants to hold Democrats accountable for anti-trans votes 

The Christopher Street Project, a hybrid PAC and nonprofit named for the New York street that’s home to the Stonewall Inn, is aiming to be...

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Flags ordered to fly at full-staff on Inauguration Day in multiple states

GOP governors of at least eight states ordered flags to be flown at full-staff on President-elect Trump's Inauguration Day, bucking tradition by...

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These two Democrats voted for House Republicans' bill to bar transgender athletes from girls' sports 

Reps. Vicente Gonzalez and Henry Cuellar, both of Texas, were the only Democrats to side with Republicans Tuesday to pass legislation meant to bar...

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House Republicans pass bill to ban transgender athletes from girls’ sports 

House Republicans on Tuesday passed a bill to bar transgender student-athletes from competing in girls’ sports from kindergarten through twelfth...

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More than 400 civil rights groups call on Congress to reject transgender athlete ban

More than 400 LGBTQ and civil rights groups on Monday urged lawmakers to reject legislation that would bar transgender athletes from competing in...

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Federal judge strikes down Biden Title IX rules

A federal judge in Kentucky struck down changes made to Title IX by the Biden administration Thursday, ruling that the new regulations, which had...

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Ohio governor signs bill requiring schools to notify parents of ‘sexuality content’

Ohio’s Republican Gov. Mike DeWine signed legislation Wednesday requiring educators to reveal a student’s gender identity to their families and...

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Texas AG Paxton sues NCAA for allowing transgender women to compete

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) sued the NCAA on Sunday, accusing the organization of engaging in “false, deceptive, and misleading...

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Biden administration withdraws proposed regulations on transgender athletes, student debt

The Biden administration on Friday withdrew a pending regulation governing transgender athletes, abandoning an effort to provide some protections...

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Michigan man pleads guilty to plotting mass shooting against gay community

A Michigan man pleaded guilty to plotting a mass shooting targeting gay people, the Justice Department said Tuesday. Mack Davis, 22, of Owosso,...

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NCAA president says there are 'less than 10' transgender athletes in college sports 

NCAA President Charlie Baker told a Senate panel there are fewer than 10 transgender athletes he is aware of who currently compete in college...

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Equality Caucus chair tells 'idiots' who claimed Wisconsin shooter was trans to 'f--- off'

Rep. Mark Pocan (D-Wis.), chair of the Congressional Equality Caucus, which works to advance LGBTQ equality in the House, on Tuesday slammed...

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House bill would ban genital surgeries for intersex foster youth

States receiving federal funding for foster care and adoption assistance programs would be required to prohibit certain surgeries for foster...

16.12.2024 4

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Beshear says he does not support taxpayer-funded surgeries for transgender inmates

Kentucky's Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear on Thursday said he does not support using taxpayer dollars for gender-affirming surgery for transgender...

13.12.2024 4

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Military with transgender connections see NDAA provision as ‘slap in the face’

Military veterans, families and active-duty service members with transgender children say a provision added to Congress’s annual defense policy...

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