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Trump administration considers restoring LGBTQ+ youth crisis line it eliminated last year
The Trump administration is considering restoring specialized suicide prevention services for LGBTQ+ youth through the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline nearly a year after shutting them down, according to a newly disclosed federal letter sent to a bipartisan group of lawmakers.
Virginia school accused of failing to protect trans teen from planned attack
On October 5, 2022, transgender high school student Tatiana Blount was the victim of a violent attack planned by fellow students that left her with serious and permanent injuries, according to a report from Norfolk, Virginia, ABC affiliate WVEC. Now, Blount is suing Lake Taylor High School in Norfolk for damages, attorneys’ fees, and court …
The internet has turned Rep. Nancy Mace’s humiliating election loss into comedy gold
Rep. Nancy Mace is having a rough week, and the internet couldn’t be happier about the turn of events.
House Republicans accuse leaders of trans-inclusive school systems of ‘child abuse’
Congressional Republicans harangued school superintendents from across the country for creating inclusive campus environments for transgender students.
Delaware strengthens legal protections for LGBTQ+ families as other states move the opposite way
As conservative lawmakers across the country target transgender rights and revisit long-settled questions about LGBTQ+ equality, Delaware moved in the opposite direction.
Doctors ask judge to halt Trump policy targeting trans people living with HIV
The nation’s leading HIV medical organizations sued the Trump administration on Wednesday, accusing federal officials of jeopardizing care for transgender people living with HIV and undermining one of the most successful public health programs in American history.
Republicans cannot stop generating images of James Talarico as a woman
This story originally appeared on Them.
Rising anti-LGBTQ+ censorship efforts pull directly from the playbooks of modern authoritarian leaders
Across the U.S., a campaign to seclude and suppress queer and trans lives from public visibility is continuing to spread. In public schools, libraries, universities, art galleries, museums, government websites, and national monuments, we are seeing art, books, terms, and symbols of LGBTQ+ identity disappear at a quickening pace.
How a ‘Conversion Therapy Dropout’ found belonging after religious trauma
As a child in Peoria, Illinois, in the 1980s, Timothy Schraeder Rodriguez couldn’t hide his disappointment when he unwrapped what he had hoped would be an Easy-Bake Oven – finding basketball equipment instead. Like many young queers in the making, he had yet to find words for his feelings. And with a family that belonged …
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