How invented threats, provocative language and repulsive imagery contribute to declining support for transgender people and other marginalized groups.
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The US Supreme Court ruled that states could exclude transgender athletes from girls and women’s sports teams.
Anti-trans policies are often described as protective, but they follow a documented pattern that creates conditions to make exclusion and harm easier to justify.
Misinformation and a shifting legal landscape have left many families with trans children uncertain about what care doctors can still provide.
Genetic testing is now required to participate in women’s events in the Olympics. But the new policy oversimplifies biological sex and risks discrimination against some female athletes.
With invalid driver’s licenses and birth certificates, transgender people are at risk for more than just steep fines and imprisonment.
From book bans and firing teachers to taking over university administrations altogether, right-wing politicians and activists worldwide have been keen on rooting out gender from schools. Why is that?
Authoritarian attitudes – the desire for social conformity and an aversion to difference – play an important role in Americans’ willingness to restrict transgender rights.
From access to preventive care to workplace protections, public policies affect the health of LGBTQ+ people and the general public in both direct and indirect ways.
The harms posed to trans youth are more than enough reason to abandon three proposed Alberta bills. However, trans youth are not the only victims of these reckless policies.
LGBTQ+ voters make up a relatively small percentage of the American electorate. But they’re poised to play an outsize role in the
‘tipping-point’ states most likely to decide the election.
These relative political newcomers have slim records on many issues, but an expert’s resume check shows Trump and Vance both have used their short times in office to oppose or roll back LGBTQ rights.
Students are less likely to identify as nonbinary in states with anti-trans policies.
Given the increase in anti-2SLGBTQIA+ hate and hostility, queer youth need more support and allyship. Here are 10 ways to support 2SLGBTQIA+ youth this Pride Month.
For the first time since gender identity was added to the Sex Discrimination Act, it’s being tested in court. At its heart, the case looks at the rights and recognition of transgender people.
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith’s anti-trans policies are likely meant to satisfy her base, but her government will now have to go head-to-head with the evidence in future legal battles.
For as long as trans medicine has been around, so has its opposition. The tactics of prior waves of anti-trans policies are still in play today.
The question of whether local declarations offering sanctuary for LGBTQIA+ people place local law above federal law depends on what the statements actually promise.
‘Don’t Say Gay’ bills claim to use science to justify a binary definition of sex based on certain traits. But the biology of sex and gender is not so simple.
A number of judges who considered challenges to anti-LGBTQ legislation passed by state lawmakers in 2023 had strong words for how the laws violated the First Amendment.
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