North Carolina’s House speaker is asking Republican colleagues whether they want a special legislative session to address the Charlotte City Council’s vote in favor of transgender public accommodations.

“”We don’t hate LGBTQ people, we hate their agenda.”

Social media was quick to pounce on the gaffe.

“It is a system of social oppression and diminished opportunities for transpeople.”

“I am sorry to all my gay brothers and sisters…Today I know better and I do better.”

School superintendents in Texas have overwhelmingly approved a change that requires public school officials to use a birth certificate to determine a student-athlete’s gender.

Transgender youth allowed to live openly as the gender they identify with fared as well psychologically as other kids in a small study that suggests parental support may be the key.

Indonesian mayor Arief R Wismansyahe also asserted, “God created Adam and Eve, not Adam and Asep.”

A deserved comeuppance: Cory Bernardi has compared homosexuality to sex with animals.

An commission will have the authority to investigate claims of discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity and enforce a city anti-bias ordinance.

Faith Lutheran Church has notified the Boy Scouts that its beliefs no longer align with the church and that it will need a new location by June 1.

Justin Trudeau will become the first Canadian prime minister to participate in Toronto’s annual gay pride march.

An Australian high school has been criticized for allowing students to wear boy or girl uniforms regardless of gender.

Gay and lesbian groups denounced the watered-down legislation as a betrayal because Renzi’s Democratic Party sacrificed a provision to allow same-sex adoption in order to ensure passage.

Kentucky businesses could refuse services to gay, lesbian or transgender clients in the name of protecting religious beliefs under a bill advancing in the state Senate.

Most of the 20 largest U.S. cities now enforce state laws or local ordinances that include allowances for people to use the bathroom of the gender they identify with.

“Sounds like that he may have had a gay lifestyle in his past. He owes people an apology.”

“It’s time to be inclusive.”

He told her “she was lucky that she’s not 18 because he would have put a bullet in her head.”

She has taken the answer about her sexual orientation to her grave, and may we all rest in peace with it.