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More than half of U.S. transgender youth aged 13-17 live in a state with at least one law restricting their rights, according to a new study from the Williams Institute, a research organization at the University of California, Los Angeles, School of Law.

A top official at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts has stepped down just 12 days after his appointment.

Organizers are ready to hit the Trump administration where it hurts the most – in the wallet.

Minnesota Democratic U.S. Sen. Amy Klobuchar announced Thursday morning that she is running for governor, making the bid official in a video posted to social media after Gov. Tim Walz recently said he would not seek a third term.

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➡️ The Trump administration claims San Jose University in California violated federal law by allowing a transgender woman to play on the women’s volleyball team, and want the university to apologize to women athletes, ban trans women, and more.

The mayor of Hungary’s capital has been indicted for helping organize a Pride march last year, in spite of a new law that forbade public LGBTQ+ events.

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Lawyers representing transgender service members challenging the Trump administration’s renewed ban on transgender military service accused the government on Wednesday of misleading the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit about both the factual record and how the policy is being enforced, arguing that Justice Department attorneys made false and improper representations last week.

Alex Jeffrey Pretti, 37, was an ICU nurse at the Minneapolis Veterans Affairs hospital before he was shot and killed by federal agents Saturday morning on Nicollet Avenue. Family and friends, as well as former coworkers and teachers, described him as generous and kind-hearted.