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South Dakota just passed a bill that could jail doctors for treating transgender youth
The bill’s sponsor compared doctors and parents of transgender children as “Nazis.” His bill is going to the state senate now.
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Virginia advances LGBTQ rights as Republicans call for secession
Virginia just passed a slate of LGBTQ bill, while Jerry Falwell Jr. wants conservative counties to secede and join West Virginia because the state is getting too progressive.
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Texas Attorney General sides with judge who won’t perform same-sex marriages
He’s not enforcing the law because he believes “religious liberty” means judges don’t have to do their jobs.
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Catholic priest bubble-wrapped a teen boy for sexual pleasure. He’s going to jail.
His victims say that the priest masturbated while they were wrapped in plastic, but he says he shouldn’t be considered a sex offender.
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Iowa GOP files bill to remove transgender people from the state’s Civil Rights Act
Iowa would become the first state to give civil rights protections to transgender people – or any class at all – and then take them away.
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Fifth Third Bank stopped donating to a voucher program because of anti-LGBTQ Christian schools
156 Christian schools on the school voucher program ban LGBTQ students or teach that homosexuality is wrong.
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Chris Mosier is the first out transgender man to qualify for a men’s Olympic trial
The historic trial ended due to an injury, but he’s using his platform to advocate for transgender athletes.
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Republican lawmaker compares parents of trans kids to Nazis
He specifically said that doctors and parents of transgender kids were performing “bizarre medical experiments,” just like the Nazis.
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Trump administration removed LGBTQ protections from Department of Interior guidelines
The Department says that the protections aren’t necessary… but that’s not what other Trump administration officials have been saying.
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Trans woman left in tears after being slapped & spit on in “disgusting” subway attack
“I just wish people would leave me alone. I don’t do anything,” the victim said in a video that got major attention online.