Special Counsel Jack Smith Thursday announced new charges against former President Donald Trump in the case involving the former president’s retention of classified documents after he left office, and Smith added a third defendant in the case. Read on »
Delta State University, a public university in Cleveland, Miss., has become a target of criticism for its hiring of an anti-LGBTQ+ minister and podcaster as interim band director. Read on »
It is sad to watch elderly people start to go downhill. I watched a very close friend of mine, who was a confidante, start falling when he turned 81. It all started with a halting walk and got to the point that he shuffled. He refused to give in. The falls got more serious, and he eventually became incapacitated, and died before he turned 83. It was awful. Read on »
Three people who participated in the anti-transgender documentary What Is a Woman? say they were deceived by the filmmakers. Read on »
An LGBTQ-affirming church in Texas was firebombed just weeks after right-wing activists visited it, pretending to be part of the LGBTQ+ community, and then posted a video to YouTube dubbing the church “pagan and satanic.” Read on »
Republicans in the House of Representatives continued their assault on transgender Americans Thursday morning by making outrageous and offensive claims about gender-affirming care. Read on »
A children’s hospital in Colorado has stopped offering transition-related surgeries to transgender patients over 18. Officials at the hospital confirmed that such procedures were never performed on minors. Read on »
Camdyn Rider, 21, died after being shot several times by his partner in front of witnesses near the couple’s home in Winter Haven, and his unborn child could not be saved, according to multiple media reports, some of which misgendered him. His partner, Riley John Groover, 26, then shot and killed himself. Chaya Raichik, who runs the Libs of TikTok anti-LGBTQ+ Twitter account, mocked the dead victim for being transgender.
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A lawsuit seeking to overturn Florida’s ban on gender-affirming care for trans minors has been amended to include a challenge to restrictions on care for adults and a request to block those while the suit proceeds. Read on »
There’s more controversy surrounding Colorado web designer Lorie Smith, whose objection to making a hypothetical website for a same-sex couple won over conservative U.S. Supreme Court justices in June. They ruled in favor of her last month in 303 Creative LLC vs. Elenis, opening the door to discrimination against LGBTQ+ people nationwide. Read on »
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