Category: Florida
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Florida veered from norms to strip transgender care from Medicaid, records show
Rating: Transsupportive, Tampa Bay Times, August 2, 2023 (PDF archive) (HTML archive) (Take Action) Action Recommendations Content Summary Florida veered from norms to strip transgender care from Medicaid, records show Days before a state agency began researching whether transgender medical care for Floridians should be covered by Medicaid, officials started lining up experts known for…
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Costa Coffee faces boycott calls over transgender illustration
Rating: Transneutral, NBC News, August 1, 2023 (PDF archive) (HTML archive) Content Summary Costa Coffee faces boycott calls over transgender illustration Anti-LGBTQ social media users are threatening to boycott the world’s second-largest coffee chain after a photo of one of its mobile cafe vans, which bore an illustration of a transgender person, began to circulate…
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A Patchwork of Transgender Healthcare Laws Push Families Across State Lines
Rating: Transsupportive, NPR, July 26, 2023 (PDF archive) (HTML archive) (Audio archive) Content Summary A Patchwork of Transgender Healthcare Laws Push Families Across State Lines July 26, 20235:48 PM ET LGBTQ activists rally at the State Capitol Building in Saint Paul, Minnesota. Earlier this year state legislators put into place legal protections for trans people…
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Swimming Announces ‘Open’ Category For Transgender Athletes—Here Are The Other Major Sports With Restrictions Or Bans
Rating: Transneutral, Forbes, July 25, 2023 (PDF archive) (HTML archive) Content Summary Swimming Announces ‘Open’ Category For Transgender Athletes—Here Are The Other Major Sports With Restrictions Or Bans Topline World Aquatics—the international governing body for swimming—announced Tuesday it will start an “Open” category that includes all transgender athletes, after the body joined several other sports…
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Ron DeSantis rants about ‘indoctrinating children’ after seeing one single Pride flag
The Florida governor – who has targeted the LGBTQ+ community with his Don’t Say Gay law and by repeatedly working to remove rights from the trans community – announced his candidacy for the Republican presidential nomination in May. Rating: Transsupportive, PinkNews, July 18, 2023 (PDF archive) (HTML archive) (Video archive)
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I CAN’T FIND THE SENSE IN TRANSITIONING… My Response
Below is my response to a post written last week by someone who clearly has their own ideas about the transgender community and decided to be generous enough to share their thoughts with everyone else. They also followed up their views with years of supporting data compiled from the experts on YouTube. If you take…
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Trump Says He’ll Ban Federal Government From Promoting Transgender Care at Any Age
Trump’s speech at the Moms for Liberty conference previewed a crackdown on LGBTQ rights, and a push to incarcerate more kids. Rating: Transneutral, Daily Beast, July 1, 2023 (PDF archive) (HTML archive)