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LGBTQ+
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A push to ditch Virginia’s same-sex marriage ban hinges on this year’s elections
Marriage equality advocates say there’s an urgent need to overturn the legacy ban as civil rights come under threat.
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Texas legislature bans transgender people from public bathrooms
After a decade and more than 16 tries, state lawmakers will send to the governor’s desk an anti-trans bill, which restricts access to public facilities and places a $25,000 fine on the first violation.
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Trans Texans face yet another attempt to ban them from bathrooms
Through testimony and a Capitol bathroom sit-in, trans Texans, activists and a constable argued that the state’s latest bathroom bill doesn’t make anyone safer.
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He graduated early to get gender-affirming surgery before college. Then his hospital cut him off.
Months before his first class at Carlow University, Lee, a 17-year-old in Pennsylvania, found himself without a provider.
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What it means to have a woman in a wheelchair featured on U.S. currency
The late disability justice co-founder and activist Stacey Park Milbern is the first woman in a wheelchair featured on U.S. currency and the first person whose wheelchair is actually shown.
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A hidden civil rights fight: New book shares the untold story of the intersex movement
Juliana Gleeson wrote “Hermaphrodite Logic: A History of Intersex Liberation” mainly for intersex people, but there’s something in its history for everyone.
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Trans people in Georgia prisons are being forced to detransition. Now they’re suing.
A class action lawsuit representing nearly 300 incarcerated people says the state’s refusal to allow gender-affirming care constitutes cruel and unusual punishment.
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How anti-abortion and anti-trans bills are impacted by Texas Democrats fleeing the state
The exodus is an effort to block a redistricting proposal that would favor Republicans, but other GOP priorities are caught up in the plan.
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More than a dozen states sue to protect gender-affirming care from federal investigations
A new lawsuit argues that the Trump administration is pursuing a backdoor strategy to restrict gender-affirming care nationally, while skirting state laws.
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Native leaders push back on gender-affirming care restrictions for tribal citizens
Native American groups say tribal sovereignty trumps state and federal efforts to restrict or ban gender-affirming care for their LGBTQ+ and two-spirit citizens.