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Category: libraries

  • In a Red Pennsylvania District, a Grieving Father Runs on Transgender Rights

    Rating: Transsupportive, Mother Jones, November 2, 2024 (PDF archive) (HTML archive) (Take Action) Action Recommendations Content Summary In a Red Pennsylvania District, a Grieving Father Runs on Transgender Rights After his son died, Trex Proffitt wanted to do more in his community. This year, he is running for office to protect LGBTQ rights. Trex Proffitt…

  • How Moms for Liberty and a notorious English teacher exploited a high school student

    Rating: Transsupportive, Popular Information, November 13, 2023 (PDF archive) (HTML archive) (Take Action) Action Recommendations Content Summary How Moms for Liberty and a notorious English teacher exploited a high school student  JUDD LEGUM NOV 13, 2023 On October 25, as Popular Information previously reported, two members of Moms for Liberty went to the Santa Rosa County…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • How did testosterone become so criminalized? The ’90s Olympic bribery scandal that started it all.

    Rating: Transsupportive, LGBTQ Nation, October 30, 2023 (PDF archive) (HTML archive) (Take Action) Action Recommendations Content Summary How did testosterone become so criminalized? The ’90s Olympic bribery scandal that started it all. Throughout the late 80s, 90s, and early 2000s, Americans became obsessed with anabolic steroid doping – i.e., hormonally altering one’s body to win…

  • Alabama lawmaker & Moms for Liberty want to expand “Don’t Say Gay” law to all grades

    Rating: Transneutral, LGBTQ Nation, October 27, 2023 (PDF archive) (HTML archive) (Take Action) Action Recommendations Content Summary Alabama lawmaker & Moms for Liberty want to expand “Don’t Say Gay” law to all grades Five-year-olds in the state are watching sexually explicit X-rated movies in school libraries, according to Republican state Rep. Mack Butler of Alabama.…

  • Florida school removed Bible from shelves over “sexually explicit content”

    Rating: Transsupportive, LGBTQ Nation, October 27, 2023 (PDF archive) (HTML archive) (Take Action) Action Recommendations Content Summary Florida school removed Bible from shelves over “sexually explicit content” The Bible has returned to school shelves in one Florida district after it was briefly removed after being challenged last week under a recent state law. Volusia County…

  • Largest School District In Vermont Unanimously Codifies Trans Rights For Students

    Largest School District In Vermont Unanimously Codifies Trans Rights For Students

    Rating: Transsupportive, Erin in the Morning, October 25, 2023 (PDF archive) (HTML archive) (Take Action) Action Recommendations Content Summary Largest School District In Vermont Unanimously Codifies Trans Rights For Students Transgender students have faced an array of threats in recent years. Several states have barred them from sports, restricted their bathroom access, banned books about…

  • Transgender youth events offered by Michigan group Stand with Trans

    Rating: Transsupportive, Detroit Free Press, September 30, 2023 (PDF archive) (HTML archive) (Take Action) Action Recommendations Content Summary Transgender youth events offered by Michigan group Stand with Trans Michigan-based nonprofit Stand with Trans, a leading organization supporting transgender youth and their loved ones, is holding its fourth annual Trans Empowerment Month this October. The group…

  • Adirondack library, known for drag queen story hour controversy, closes after staff abruptly quits

    Rating: Transneutral, NYup, September 28, 2023 (PDF archive) (HTML archive) (Take Action) Action Recommendations Content Summary Adirondack library, known for drag queen story hour controversy, closes after staff abruptly quits By Sunny Hernandez | ahernandez@nyup.com An Upstate New York library closed this week when all but one of its employees abruptly quit. According to CBS 6 Albany,…