Category: Pennsylvania

  • Transgender Awareness Week: Trans rights under attack. What’s next?

    Transgender Awareness Week: Trans rights under attack. What’s next?

    Rating: Transsupportive, USA Today, November 14, 2023 (PDF archive) (HTML archive) (Video archive) (Take Action) Action Recommendations Content Summary Transgender Awareness Week: Trans rights under attack. What’s next?USA TODAY Transgender rights are under attack. But trans people ‘just want to thrive and survive.’ David Oliver USA TODAY Distilling a community down to one word is…

  • America’s Censored Classrooms 2023

    America’s Censored Classrooms 2023

    Rating: Transsupportive, PEN America, November 9, 2023 (PDF archive 1) (PDF archive 2) (HTML archive) (Take Action) Action Recommendations Content Summary America’s Censored Classrooms 2023  Lawmakers Shift Strategies as Resistance Rises Key Findings Over the past three years, state legislators have launched an onslaught of educational gag orders—state legislative and policy efforts to restrict teaching…

  • Medicine with a “Transgender Bias”

    Medicine with a “Transgender Bias”

    Rating: Transphobic, City Journal, November 8, 2023 (PDF archive) (HTML archive) (Take Action) Action Recommendations Content Summary Medicine with a “Transgender Bias” A new lawsuit raises the question of whether “gender-affirming care” constitutes gay conversion therapy and violated the civil rights of a gay man. Nov 08 2023 Fenway Community Health Center in Boston, the…

  • Moms For Liberty’s School Board Takeover Attempts Fizzled Out On Election Day

    Moms For Liberty’s School Board Takeover Attempts Fizzled Out On Election Day

    Rating: Transsupportive, Huffington Post, November 8, 2023 (PDF archive) (HTML archive) (Video archive) (Take Action) Action Recommendations Content Summary Moms For Liberty’s School Board Takeover Attempts Fizzled Out On Election Day The results from an election cycle widely viewed as a preview for 2024 are bad news for the group’s ultra-conservative agenda. By Nathalie Baptiste Nov…

  • Speaker Mike Johnson Roundly Condemned by LGBTQ+ Groups, Biden Campaign, and Democrats

    Speaker Mike Johnson Roundly Condemned by LGBTQ+ Groups, Biden Campaign, and Democrats

    Rating: Transneutral, Advocate, October 26, 2023 (PDF archive) (HTML archive) (Take Action) Action Recommendations Content Summary Speaker Mike Johnson Roundly Condemned by LGBTQ+ Groups, Biden Campaign, and Democrats LGBTQ+ groups and other progressive forces, including President Joe Biden’s reelection campaign, are denouncing the elevation of far-right U.S. Rep. Mike Johnson to speaker of the House…

  • Trans sex worker & ACLU sue Tennessee over HIV criminalization law

    Trans sex worker & ACLU sue Tennessee over HIV criminalization law

    Rating: Transsupportive, LGBTQ Nation, October 25, 2023 (PDF archive) (HTML archive) (Take Action) Action Recommendations Content Summary Trans sex worker & ACLU sue Tennessee over HIV criminalization law The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and the Transgender Law Center have filed a federal lawsuit against a Tennessee law that requires HIV-positive sex workers to register…

  • Looking To 2024: What's Next In The Fight Over Trans Rights In America

    Looking To 2024: What’s Next In The Fight Over Trans Rights In America

    Rating: Transsupportive, Erin in the Morning, October 18, 2023 (PDF archive) (HTML archive) (Take Action) Action Recommendations Content Summary Looking To 2024: What’s Next In The Fight Over Trans Rights In America 2023 has been a challenging year for transgender individuals in America. As most legislatures across the country went out of session, the momentum…

  • Pennsylvania high school students organize walkout over new transgender bathroom policy

    Pennsylvania high school students organize walkout over new transgender bathroom policy

    Rating: Transphobic, Fox News, September 18, 2023 (PDF archive) (HTML archive) (Video archive) (Take Action) Action Recommendations Content Summary Pennsylvania high school students organize walkout over new transgender bathroom policyPennsylvania high school students organize walkout over new transgender bathroom policy  Fox News

  • New Poll Shows Massive Backlash To Anti-LGBTQ School Policies

    New Poll Shows Massive Backlash To Anti-LGBTQ School Policies

    Rating: Transsupportive, Erin in the Morning, August 30, 2023 (PDF archive) (HTML archive) (Video archive) (Take Action) Action Recommendations Content Summary New Poll Shows Massive Backlash To Anti-LGBTQ School Policies   Over the past two years, over a dozen states—all under Republican governance—have enacted policies that forcibly disclose the gender identities of transgender youth to…

  • Pittsburgh could become sanctuary city for transgender health care

    Pittsburgh could become sanctuary city for transgender health care

    Rating: Transsupportive, National Public Radio via 90.5 WESA, August 29, 2023 (PDF archive) (HTML archive) (Take Action) Action Recommendations Content Summary Pittsburgh could become sanctuary city for transgender health care Pittsburgh could become a sanctuary city for transgender health care. A package of bills introduced in City Council Tuesday would prohibit city agencies from supporting…