Category: court

  • 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…

  • Federal judge sides with DeSantis on transgender athletes, upholds ban on biological males on female teams

    Rating: Transphobic, Fox News, November 9, 2023 (PDF archive) (HTML archive) (Take Action) Action Recommendations Content Summary Federal judge sides with DeSantis on transgender athletes, upholds ban on biological males on female teams Trump-appointed judge delivers DeSantis’ ‘Fairness in Women’s Sports Act’ a win in federal court this week  By Danielle Wallace Fox News Published November 9, 2023…

  • Why was a transgender Texas boy removed from a lead role in the school musical ‘Oklahoma’?

    Rating: Transsupportive, Dallas Morning News, November 8, 2023 (PDF archive) (HTML archive) (Take Action) Action Recommendations Content Summary Why was a transgender Texas boy removed from a lead role in the school musical ‘Oklahoma’? Max Hightower was cast in ensemble roles for theater productions throughout high school. Then, finally, his teacher offered him one of…

  • 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…

  • Anti-trans prison housing bill raises alarms

    Rating: Transsupportive, The Capital Times, November 7, 2023 (PDF archive) (HTML archive) (Take Action) Action Recommendations Content Summary Anti-trans prison housing bill raises alarms Rylee Jenich spent 10 years incarcerated in various Wisconsin men’s prisons. For the last six of those years, Jenich — a trans-feminine person who uses they/them pronouns — publicly identified as…

  • Speaker Mike Johnson’s Wife Removes Website Equating Homosexuality to Bestiality and Incest

    Rating: Transsupportive, Advocate, October 31, 2023 (PDF archive) (HTML archive) (Take Action) Action Recommendations Content Summary Speaker Mike Johnson’s Wife Removes Website Equating Homosexuality to Bestiality and Incest IMAGES: FACEBOOK @SPEAKERJOHNSON; SHUTTERSTOCK Following scrutiny, Kelly Johnson, wife of newly elected House Speaker Mike Johnson, has taken down her Christian counseling website that contained documents comparing…

  • Abusive Practices And Conversion Therapy Ties: The Right Latches Onto Finnish Doctor Kaltiala

    Rating: Transsupportive, Erin in the Morning, October 31, 2023 (PDF archive) (HTML archive) (Take Action) Action Recommendations Content Summary Abusive Practices And Conversion Therapy Ties: The Right Latches Onto Finnish Doctor Kaltiala On Monday, Bari Weiss’ platform, “The Free Press,” published an article by Dr. Riitakerttu Kaltiala, the chief psychiatrist in the department of adolescent…

  • 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…

  • Court blocks Idaho’s deeply transphobic student bathroom bill

    Rating: Transsupportive, LGBTQ Nation, October 27, 2023 (PDF archive) (HTML archive) (Take Action) Action Recommendations Content Summary Court blocks Idaho’s deeply transphobic student bathroom bill Idaho’s bathroom ban for transgender students has been temporarily blocked by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. The law, SB1100, banned trans kids from using school facilities that align with…

  • Missouri School District Hears Policy On Hoax

    Missouri School District Hears Policy On Hoax “Litter Boxes” And Trans Bathroom Bans

    Rating: Transsupportive, Erin in the Morning, October 27, 2023 (PDF archive) (HTML archive) (Take Action) Action Recommendations Content Summary Missouri School District Hears Policy On Hoax “Litter Boxes” And Trans Bathroom Bans Francis Howell School District in Missouri, one of the state’s largest, recently held a hearing regarding a new policy aimed at transgender students…