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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis announced the state will sue President Joe Biden’s administration for requiring schools to accommodate transgender students with restroom access. It was the latest reminder that even though the Republican has suspended his presidential campaign, he’s not done hurting LGBTQ+ children.

The “world’s strongest gay” announced he is retiring from his career as a competitive professional strongman. Rob Kearney said he was fortunate to have had a successful career, but that it was time to move on to the next chapter in his life.

Short summary of updates: Passage of a transgender sanctuary bill in Maine places it among the safest states with the best protections for transgender people for both youth and adults. Several anti-trans bills that have passed in Idaho raise its risk for transgender adults; that risk was already at its highest level for transgender youth. …

A new docuseries about the lives of queer Mormon teens hopes to make viewers « more informed, more open, and more caring » about what religious LGBTQ+ youth face.

Transgender, nonbinary, and intersex Arkansas residents are suing the state over a new policy that makes it nearly impossible to change the gender marker on driver’s licenses and prohibits the nonbinary X marker.

It’s become not-so-surprising to see political leaders on daytime, late-night, and comedy shows during election seasons. In part to humanize the person behind the office. But, naturally, to ensure they reach a certain audience that may be unreachable — though in the age of social media, it seems possible to reach more now than ever.

If you are like me, you had hoped or fantasized that every media outlet would decrease their coverage of criminal Donald Trump, especially as he continues his trial for 34 felony counts in hush money payments meant to interfere with the 2016 election.

South Carolina Superintendent of Education Ellen Weaver has joined the list of state officials objecting to the Biden administration’s new, LGBTQ-inclusive rule on the application of Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, the law banning sex discrimination in educational programs that receive federal funds.

Most opposition to LGBTQ+ rights in the United States – historically and contemporaneously – emanates from Christian pulpits. From sea to shining sea, many pastors and priests still preach harsh words against those who are not heterosexual and not cisgender. These preachers employ the Christian Bible as a hammer and, without a hint of reservation …

If a U.S. Rep. Donald Jones (he’s fictitious) was on trial for falsifying business records to hide a payment to a mistress to keep quiet about an affair before a 2016 election, he would have already had his trial, been convicted, and served his time in prison.