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LGBTQ+
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California wants to expand gender-inclusive bathrooms in schools
A committee will begin meeting next year to explore how to increase the facilities after a year in which many states and districts moved to restrict the rights of trans and nonbinary students.
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Super PAC focused on LGBTQ+ women adds a trans board member as spotlight grows on transgender issues
Charlotte Clymer joins LPAC as it works to understand how voters — especially Republicans — respond to policies affecting trans people.
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‘We don’t have other options’: Children’s hospital disbands gender-affirming care program
A resource for trans youth health care known as GENECIS had drawn families from across Texas and surrounding states.
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Some LGBTQ+ people worry that the COVID-19 vaccine will affect HIV medication. It won’t.
Most LGBTQ+ adults are vaccinated, but the concerns are coming from a particularly vulnerable minority. There is no evidence the two treatments interact negatively, experts say.
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‘They couldn’t understand me’: One woman’s plea for transgender surgery in prison
Kanautica Zayre-Brown’s case in North Carolina highlights the tensions between LGBTQ+ advocates and the Biden administration as trans people behind bars are being denied what experts agree is medically necessary care.
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Olympic officials nudge sports federations toward greater inclusion for transgender and nonbinary athletes
The International Olympic Committee issued nonbinding guidelines, including one on testosterone testing, that would allow more athletes to participate.
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The word missing from the vast majority of anti-trans legislation? Transgender
In 102 anti-trans bills in seven states, the word “transgender” appears just eight times, part of an effort to deny trans kids’ existence even as the legislation affects what they can and cannot do.
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2021 is now the deadliest year on record for transgender people
This year has shattered the record of transgender homicides in a year with 47 to date — most of them Black or Latinx.
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The U.S. still has only 5 Black trans elected officials after November 2
Trans people are underrepresented in elected office, and even fewer are people of color. Candidates and advocates tell The 19th that campaign finance and economic disparities are major factors.
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Before the Chappelle special, trans employees at Netflix say they were doing the work of HR
An employee resource group gave employees a new voice inside the media company. It also gave them responsibilities they were never hired to do.