Category: laws
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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…
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Annette Bening warns anti-trans lawmakers: “You do not want to make this momma mad”
Rating: Transsupportive, LGBTQ Nation, October 31, 2023 (PDF archive) (HTML archive) (Take Action) Action Recommendations Content Summary Annette Bening warns anti-trans lawmakers: “You do not want to make this momma mad” Over the weekend, Annette Bening received GLSEN’s Advocate Award at the LGBTQ+ organization’s annual Rise Up L.A. benefit. The four-time Oscar nominee lived up…
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As transgender health care draws patients to New Mexico, waitlists grow
Rating: Transsupportive, CBS News, October 31, 2023 (PDF archive) (HTML archive) (Take Action) Action Recommendations Content Summary As transgender health care draws patients to New Mexico, waitlists grow ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — This summer, Sophia Machado packed her bags and left her home in Oregon to move to Albuquerque, New Mexico, where her sister lived and…
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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…
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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…
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Welsh government plans to redefine women to include transgender females
Rating: Transneutral, The Telegraph, October 29, 2023 (PDF archive) (HTML archive) (Take Action) Action Recommendations Content Summary Welsh government plans to redefine women to include transgender females The Welsh government is to redefine women to include transgender females under planned new laws. The proposal was revealed on Sunday in a leaked draft of its Gender…
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Merchant Marine transgender policy allows service exemptions
Rating: Transphobic, New York Post , October 29, 2023 (PDF archive) (HTML archive) (Take Action) Action Recommendations Content Summary Merchant Marine transgender policy allows service exemptions WASHINGTON – Rep. Jim Banks (R-Ind.) wants answers from the Merchant Marine Academy after the Long Island institution implemented a new policy allowing midshipmen undergoing gender transitions to seek…
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Che Flores becomes first out trans non-binary referee in NBA
Rating: Transsupportive, PinkNews, October 28, 2023 (PDF archive) (HTML archive) (Take Action) Action Recommendations Content Summary Che Flores becomes first out trans non-binary referee in NBA An NBA referee has made history as the first publicly out trans non-binary referee in professional sports in the United States. Che Flores, a second-year staff referee for the…
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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…