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Federal healthcare plan halts gender-affirming care coverage for trans people under 19

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The government’s largest health insurance program for federal employees has officially ended coverage of gender-affirming care for anyone under 19 years old in compliance with Donald Trump’s executive order mandating it.  The U.S. Office of Personnel and Management’s Healthcare and Insurance program – which covers “8 million Federal employees, retirees, former employees, family members, and former spouses,” according to the handbook – sent a directive to health insurance companies that work with the federal government stating they must comply with the order, along with another one Trump signed declaring there are only two sexes, male and female. “All Carriers for Plan Year […]

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EEOC won’t advocate for trans and nonbinary people, in keeping with Trump’s ‘two sexes’ order

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The acting chair of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission is implementing Donald Trump’s “two sexes” executive order by removing many protections and information for transgender and nonbinary people. Acting Chair Andrea Lucas “announced that one of her priorities — for compliance, investigations, and litigation — is to defend the biological and binary reality of sex and related rights, including women’s rights to single-sex spaces at work,” an EEOC press release states. She has removed the agency’s pronoun app, which allowed employees to display their pronouns alongside their name on their Microsoft 365 profiles; ended the use of the X gender marker during the intake process for filing a discrimination charge; […]

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Target dropped DEI, so Minnesota’s largest Pride festival dropped Target’s sponsorship — and raised even more

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After Target made the decision to drop diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives, Minnesota’s largest Pride festival decided to drop them as a sponsor. Now, Twin Cities Pride has more funding than they started with. Target issued a memo on Friday announcing the end of its three-year DEI goals, including its Racial Equity Action and Change (REACH) program and “all external diversity-focused survey’s including HRC’s Corporate Equality index.” The Human Rights Campaign effort, which provides benchmarks on corporate policies relevant to LGBTQ+ employees, previously gave Target a score of 100 percent, dubbing the company a “Leader in LGBTQ+ Workplace Inclusion.” In response, the largest Pride organization in Minnesota and the […]

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CALL TO ACTION: An activist’s guide to civil disobedience

Political changes often seem like a pendulum swinging back and forth in endless motion. In our current era, the pendulum is on a rightward trajectory in many “liberal democracies” like France, Germany, and of course, the United States. Many of us who believe in the democratic principles of social justice are shocked by the right-wing direction the United States has taken with the second election of Donald Trump. Many thought his first successful bid for the presidency was a mere fluke, but his recent victory shows the underlying roots of anti-liberalism, or more appropriately, the deeply embedded patriarchal Christian white […]

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Trans service members say they want to fight for their country, not for their jobs

When Alivia Stehlik, an Army major, came out as a transgender woman in the spring of 2017, she said she was nervous about how her colleagues and other soldiers would react, especially because she’s a physical therapist. “You have to physically touch most of your patients, and I had some nerves initially that folks would be uncomfortable,” she said. However, in the eight years since she came out, she said she’s been “overwhelmingly, pleasantly surprised at every single turn.”  “My bosses, the people that I’ve worked with, the people who’ve worked for me, my patients — nobody cares that I’m […]

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Russia is building an electronic registry of LGBTQ+ citizens

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Russia’s Interior Ministry has plans for a sweeping electronic database of LGBTQ+ people in the country, Meduza, an independent Russian news outlet, revealed this week. Citing anonymous sources at the Interior Ministry, the outlet reported that the Orwellian plan has been in discussion since last year after Russia’s Supreme Court outlawed the so-called “international LGBT movement” as an “extremist organization” at the urging of President Vladimir Putin. The database will be a “large-scale” system to track members of the LGBTQ+ community at large, according to sources. The plans were corroborated by Dmitry Chukreyev, an official with the Civic Chamber of Yekaterinburg, […]

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Doctors Group Sues Over Removal Of Health Websites

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A medical advocacy group on Tuesday sued the main U.S. health agencies over the sudden removal of websites containing public health information in response to an executive order by President Donald Trump targeting what his administration deemed to be “gender ideology extremism.” Doctors for America said in the lawsuit filed in Washington, D.C. federal court, that the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has removed “numerous” longstanding websites since the order. Those include a page on behavioral health risks among youth, which the lawsuit says is important for understanding health challenges faced by young people, including bullying and vaping; […]

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GOOD ON THEM: NFL Commissioner: We’re Keeping Diversity Policies

“Our policies have been designed to be well within the law, well within the practice. There are no quotas in our system. This is about opening that funnel and bringing the best talent into the NFL. We also believe we are doing the right thing for the NFL. “We think we’re better when we get different perspectives, people with different backgrounds, whether they’re women or men or people of color, we make ourselves stronger and we make ourselves better when we have that.  “It’s something that I think it will have a tremendous impact on this lead for many, many years. […]

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Equality California on Trump’s Attack on Healthcare for LGBTQ+ Youth and their Families

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Equality California released the following statement from Executive Director Tony Hoang in response to President Trump issuing an executive order attempting to stop LGBTQ+ youth—specifically transgender youth—and their families from accessing medical care: “Decisions about medical care for young people should be made between doctors and families—not by politicians like Donald Trump. This attack on transgender youth, their families, and trusted medical professionals from the Trump Administration is brazen, cynical, and dangerous. This executive order attempts to punish parents for making decisions that are in the best interest of their children, stop doctors from providing medically necessary care, and undermine the irrefutable […]

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The International Criminal Court’s chief prosecutor said that anti-LGBTQ+ oppression in the country is part of the Taliban’s systematic gender oppression

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The International Criminal Court’s (ICC) chief prosecutor has filed applications for arrest warrants for two senior Taliban officials, charging them with gender persecution, including of LGBTQ+ Afghans. In a January 23 statement, ICC Prosecutor Karim A. A. Khan said that after an investigation of alleged crimes committed against Afghan civilians, his office has determined that there are “reasonable grounds to believe that the Supreme Leader of the Taliban, Haibatullah Akhunzada, and the Chief Justice of the ‘Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan,’ Abdul Hakim Haqqani, bear criminal responsibility for the crime against humanity of persecution on gender grounds, under article 7(1)(h) of […]

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