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Tennessee bills targeting LGBTQ+ approach passage
Two high-profile Republican bills targeting LGBTQ+ issues in Tennessee are approaching their final hurdle Thursday morning in the General Assembly. One bill would ban gender-affirming care for minors while the other would regulate some drag shows. Both are expected to secure final approval in the House and head to Gov. Bill Lee's desk.
I Signed the New York Times Open Letter. I Have More to Say.
To say that it was a decision for me to put my name on the open letter to The New York Times condemning the publication for its continuous anti-trans rhetoric suggests that it required more thought than it actually did. I received an email at 11:02 on a Saturday evening from a friend who was one of the organizers of the letter, and I replied at 11:04 PM that “I would absolutely love to sign the letter.”
Indiana 'Don't Say Gay' bill pivots to kids' gender identity
Teachers in Indiana public schools could be required to tell parents if a student changes their gender identity or preferred name under a bill House committee members approved Monday.
How Gamers Use Video Games to Explore Their Gender Identity
“Are you a boy or a girl?” Kris frowned at the screen, unsure how to respond. Was Kris a boy or a girl? Did either category feel right? Kris hadn’t expected an existential crisis when grabbing Pokémon off the shelf that morning. But the game’s introductory question had raised a question that Kris had been pondering recently. The game was simply asking what hair and clothing to assign to the protagonist. But what answer felt right? What was Kris’s gender?
Democratic-led panel kills ‘parental rights’ bills on school books, gender identity
A Democratic-led Senate committee on Thursday killed multiple bills from House Republicans that aimed to increase parental oversight in public schools. The votes continue a trend of lawmakers of both parties opposing each other’s controversial legislation and killing them in committee hearings.
NYT editors: Paper ‘will not tolerate’ its journalists protesting coverage of transgender people
The top editor of The New York Times warned the newspaper’s journalists who have voiced displeasure with the outlet’s coverage of transgender people and issues that such public criticism will “not be tolerated.”
Nearly 200 New York Times Contributors Are Denouncing the Paper’s Anti-Trans Coverage
More than 170 past and present New York Times contributors signed an open letter on Wednesday calling out the paper’s coverage of transgender, non-binary, and gender nonconforming people. The missive points to “what one journalist has calculated as over 15,000 words of front-page Times coverage debating the propriety of medical care for trans children published in the last eight months alone,” as well as “reporting on trans children that omits relevant information about its sources.” Among the prominent journalists and writers who signed the letter are Roxane Gay, Rebecca Solnit, Ed Yong, and Lucy Sante. Several current Times staffers are also signatories, as are actress Cynthia Nixon and writer-director Lena Dunham.
Bretman Rock Reveals How Makeup and Fashion Helped Him Find His Gender Expression
Before Bretman Rock became a trendsetter, he had to search for his personal style first. The 24-year-old—who skyrocketed to fame at the age of 14 for his viral beauty videos—has always used hair, makeup and fashion as creative tools to be his most authentic self. "My gender expression has always been very interesting," he told E! News in an exclusive interview. "It's also very cool to watch myself discover how I wanted to express my gender. Fashion and makeup and hair help with that."
South Dakota is about to pass a trans healthcare ban
South Dakota’s Republican-led state senate has approved a bill to ban gender-affirming healthcare. The bill now heads to the desk of Gov. Kristi Noem (R) who is expected to sign it into law.
No room for backlash on protecting trans, nonbinary students
Schools should be places kids feel like themselves. For gender nonconforming students, we have made real progress on that front. Now that’s under attack, in predictable and surprising places. Recently the New York Times ran a cover story: “When Students Change Gender Identity, and Parents Don’t Know.” There is a picture of a child, but every sentence on the front page is about grown-ups: parents upset their children changed gender expression at school and educators did not tell them, because the children asked educators not to.
Gender identity video fallout: State directors to be 'held accountable' for content
A 2News exclusive on a state-produced video encouraging teachers to have students—including young children—“explore their gender identity” and have “gender play” in the classroom, is now reverberating throughout state government.
‘Kids will kill themselves’
As the owners of the only clinic in Mississippi that exclusively provides gender-affirming care to trans people, nurse practitioners Stacie and Lee Pace get a lot of hate mail. But more frequent are the emails from trans kids, who write to the clinic just to say “I’m so glad you exist.”
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