LGBTQ Nation

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Gay Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent may have helped create a constitutional crisis

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Out Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent allowed Donald Trump donor Elon Musk and his team access to the payment system used by the federal government. Musk is threatening to illegally stop spending mandated by Congress and has ordered the shutdown of USAID, which delivers humanitarian aid on behalf of the United States, claiming that Donald Trump wants him to. Trump does not have the authority to end USAID. According to reporting from several media outlets, including CNN, The Washington Post, and the New York Times, Deputy Secretary of the Treasury David Lebryk has been put on leave because he tried to stop Musk […]

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Trans landmark added to National Register of Historic Places despite Trump’s anti-trans attacks

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A San Francisco address that was once the site of a pre-Stonewall transgender uprising has been added to the National Register of Historic Places, the official list of historic sites, buildings, and objects in the United States. The National Park Service added the building at 101-102 Taylor St. in San Francisco’s Tenderloin neighborhood to its official list of historic U.S. places worthy of preservation on January 27, without any public statement or press release, The Bay Area Reporter first reported. The address was the location of Compton’s Cafeteria in the 1960s. One night in August 1966, a riot broke out at the 24-hour […]

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Transgender people with autism suffer poor healthcare and high rates of self-harm

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The first large-scale study on the experiences of autistic transgender people finds that they are more likely to have long-term mental and physical health conditions, including alarmingly high rates of self-harm, data from the Autism Research Center at Cambridge University shows. Researchers found that these individuals also report experiencing lower quality health care than both autistic and non-autistic people whose gender identity matches their sex assigned at birth. “These findings add to the growing body of evidence that many autistic people experience unacceptably poor mental health and are at a very high risk of suicide-related behaviors. We need to consider how other aspects […]

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Google erases Pride Month from Calendar app

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The Google Calendar app has stopped mentioning various cultural observances, like LGBTQ+ Pride Month, Black History Month, Women’s History Month, Hispanic Heritage Month, and Indigenous Peoples Month.  The company said that it wasn’t “sustainable” to keep mentioning these observances, but commenters accused Google of removing them in response to the recent right-wing pressure campaign against “diversity” efforts. “Some years ago, the Calendar team started manually adding a broader set of cultural moments in a wide number of countries around the world,” Google spokesperson Madison Cushman Veld wrote in a statement to The Verge. “We got feedback that some other events and countries […]

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Canadian LGBTQ+ group issues U.S. travel ban amid Trump’s anti-trans & tariff threats

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The prominent LGBTQ+ rights organization Egale Canada will boycott events in the U.S. in protest of the Trump administration’s continued assault on the transgender community. “After deep consideration, we have decided not to engage in-person in this year’s Commission on the Status of Women or any other UN, OAS (Organization of American States) or global convergings, including WorldPride, taking place in the United States in the foreseeable future,” a statement from the group reads. WorldPride, which drew five million attendees to its biannual gathering in New York in 2023, is slated to take place in Washington DC at the end of May. […]

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Major LGBTQ+ organizations initiate mass layoffs in the wake of right-wing hate

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Two major LGBTQ+ organizations – GLSEN and the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) – both recently announced major layoffs, with HRC planning to lose 20 percent of its workforce and GLSEN losing a whopping 60 percent of its staff. Both organizations claim the layoffs will not affect their strong resistance to the Trump administration.  GLSEN executive director Melanie Willingham-Jaggers said the organization has experienced a sharp revenue loss and the layoffs are part of plans to “right-size” the educational advocacy organization. “We are not an injured version of the GLSEN we were before Monday. We are a new organization,” they told Advocate, confirming […]

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Dept. of Education ends all trans-inclusive policies & shuts out LGBTQ+ lawmakers

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The Department of Education (DOE) has directed its workers to end all transgender-inclusive programs and policies in accordance with President Donald Trump’s anti-transgender executive orders. Trump has pledged to eliminate the DOE, Elon Musk, a Trump campaign donor who has been acting as if he were co-president, has given his underlings access to the DOE and its data, and LGBTQ+ congresspeople were denied entry into the DOE last Friday. In an unsigned email sent last Friday from “ED Internal Communications,” DOE employees were told to end all programs, contracts, policies, outward-facing media, regulations, and internal practices that “fail to affirm […]

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Lambda Legal says it needs more willing plaintiffs to fight Donald Trump

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The CEO of Lambda Legal, an LGBTQ+ civil rights organization, says they have long been preparing for Donald Trump’s arrival in the Oval Office.  In an interview with The Advocate, Kevin Jennings said Trump is utilizing a “shock and awe” strategy, flooding the nation with outlandish moves all at once to intentionally overwhelm. But his team is not surprised.  “At Lambda Legal, we knew this was coming. So we have neither been shocked nor awed by what’s happening,” Jennings assured.  “We’ve seen this movie before,” he added. “We sued the Trump administration 14 times during his first presidency and won 12 of those cases […]

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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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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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