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“It’s already enough being Black and facing discrimination,” Kalaya Morton told The Advocate. “Now I have to worry about being harassed just for needing to pee?”
The letter, introduced by Rep. Becca Balint and signed by 89 House Democrats, asserts that the ban "threatens the lives and well-being of the young people who need this care, which is supported by every major medical association."
He ruled that the Trump administration’s policy likely violated the Constitution’s prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment.
Chris Kluwe, a former NFL kicker for the Minnesota Vikings, tells The Advocate about getting arrested for protesting MAGA proposals on his city council.
“After we’ve discriminated against, deported or disparaged all the immigrants and the gay and lesbian and transgender people, the developmentally disabled, the women and the minorities...what comes next?” the Democratic governor asked.
Transgender college students have launched the National Transgender Leadership Conference Committee with the goal of hosting a summit this fall.
State Sen. Tony Bisignano doubled down on calling out Republican lawmakers for stripping away civil rights protections for transgender people in an interview with The Advocate.
The Trump administration directive looking to discharge trans service members was tucked away in a court filing.
They appear to be messages from an employee resource group chat.
The DHS quietly updated its policy manual earlier this month, removing LGBTQ+ identities from the section prohibiting surveillance based solely on immutable characteristics.
“See you in court,” she told the president when he declared his administration’s policies to be “the federal law.”
The former Minnesota Vikings kicker was arrested after an act of "peaceful civil disobedience” at a Huntington Beach City Council meeting.
About 9.3 percent of U.S. adults in 2024 said that they identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or something other than heterosexual in a new report from Gallup.
A researcher at the George Washington Cancer Center says Trump could erase years of scientific work.
The Bridesmaids director pledged $300,000 to The Trevor Project, Trans Lifeline, and It Gets Better.
The Philadelphia School District has announced that it will continue to allow transgender athletes to compete on teams that align with their gender identity.
Most Americans support banning gender-affirming care for youth and preventing trans athletes from participating on teams that align with their identity — yet they also support anti-discrimination laws protecting trans people.
Is it ever okay to out them, or does that cross a boundary? Advice from your Lovable Trans Auntie.
“In America, the President is neither a King nor a dictator, as much as this one tries to act like it – and it is the rule of law that prevents him from being so,” Gov. Janet Mills said.
It’s the latest salvo by LGBTQ+ legal advocates at Lambda Legal.
