Molly Sprayregen

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Queer Gen Zers have huge electoral power. Isaac James has a plan to get them to the ballot box.

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Isaac James felt an enormous sense of urgency when he founded OutVote, an organization dedicated to mobilizing Gen Z voters. It’s why he launched the initiative (along with his co-founder Ranen Miao) while still a student at Oxford University, where he witnessed from afar the swell of anti-LGBTQ+ rhetoric that dominated the 2024 election. At Oxford on a Rhodes Scholarship, it was a busy time to launch an organization, but James knew that if he was going to make it happen, he needed to do it right away. “I had the luxury of distance and time to look at what […]

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School celebrates as SCOTUS rejects forced outing case: “The good guys win, and truth prevails”

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The Supreme Court rejected a couple’s appeal on Monday in a case seeking to limit trans students’ rights in schools.  January and Jeffrey Littlejohn sued Florida’s Leon County School District in 2021 after claiming that school officials met with their child and created a support plan for trans/nonbinary students — in accordance with district policy — essentially “forcing” her child to be “a trans boy” without first consulting her. Littlejohn claimed that school officials discussed restrooms and name-change requests with their child without parental consent.  Anti-LGBTQ+ Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) invoked the Littlejohns’ story as inspiration for signing the state’s Don’t Say Gay […]

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Pennsylvania House passes LGBTQ+ discrimination protections despite GOP outrage

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The Pennsylvania House of Representatives passed a bill on Tuesday that would establish anti-discrimination protections for LGBTQ+ people. H.B. 2103 narrowly squeezed through the chamber in a 101-100 vote. Republicans against the bill reportedly worried that its vague definitions could conflict with religious freedom (the bill includes religious liberty protections). They specifically worried that the classification of “public accommodations” would allow trans women and girls to use the facilities that align with their gender identities.  “If the whole point here is to protect people in special classes, we just denigrated all young women,” state Rep. Craig Williams (R) said during debate over […]

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Court rules trans people have right to accurate IDs: “Trans discrimination is sex discrimination”

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The Supreme Court of Montana ruled on Tuesday that trans residents of the state have a right to update their legal documents to accurately reflect their genders. “Transgender discrimination is, by its very nature, sex discrimination,” Justice Laurie McKinnon wrote in the court’s decision. “Government issued identification documents are necessary to access public life. When they do not accurately reflect a person’s sexual identity, the transgender Montanan is prevented, based on their sex, from obtaining the same attributes of public life that a cisgender Montanan may obtain. Hence, the inability of transgender Montanans to receive government-issued identification documents accurately reflecting their […]

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University sues federal gov’t for threatening federal funding over trans volleyball player

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San Jose State University (SJSU) and the California State University (CSU) system are suing the federal government in response to its determination that SJSU violated Title IX by allowing a transgender volleyball player to compete on the women’s team. The current administration launched an investigation into the university immediately following the president’s executive order, Keeping Men Out of Women’s Sports, issued soon after he took office. The school made headlines in the heat of the 2024 election campaign when the girls’ volleyball team co-captain, Brooke Slusser, joined a lawsuit led by anti-trans activist and swimmer Riley Gaines which challenged the NCAA’s […]

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Trans man jumps in frigid lake & saves baby from drowning: “I wasn’t going to let that baby die”

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30-year-old trans man Lio Cundiff has been hailed as a hero for jumping into Chicago’s frigid Lake Michigan to save a baby whose stroller was blown into the water by a strong gust of wind.  Cundiff recounted hearing the mother scream and then observing her being frozen in shock. “And so I just jumped in,” he told the Chicago Tribune. “My only thing was, ‘You got to get this baby out of here.’ If she’s going down, I’ll go down with her, but the goal is to get us both up.” Cundiff told ABC 7 Chicago that the mother was clearly “too panicked to do […]

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Fox News posts more articles on trans people than any media outlet in the country. Even queer ones.

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New analysis from trans journalist and researcher Jessica Kant has found that Fox News publishes more articles about trans people than any other media outlet in the country. And that includes LGBTQ+ publications.  The findings bolster what Democrats have long argued, that it’s actually Republicans who are obsessed with trans people and not the other way around. Kant also noted that right-leaning publications produce far more articles on trans people than the mainstream media.  “Our annihilation has become a central organizing principle of the Republican Party,” Kant wrote in her analysis, which used her research to unpack how the right “manufactured […]

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Democrats reintroduce Trans Bill of Rights as “a moral commitment” to trans people

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Democrats in both the House and Senate have reintroduced the Transgender Bill of Rights, calling on the federal government to “codify the rights of transgender and nonbinary people under the law and ensure their access to medical care, shelter, safety, and economic security.” The effort is being led by Sen. Ed Markey (D-MA) and Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-WA), who is the parent of a transgender child. The pair also introduced the Trans Bill of Rights in 2023. “We are laying out a comprehensive vision to provide protections for transgender and nonbinary people — a vision that ensures that every single person has a chance […]

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Swedish skier Elis Lundholm will make history as the first out trans athlete in a Winter Olympics

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The Winter Olympics kick off this Friday in Northern Italy, and it will feature a single out trans athlete.  Elis Lundholm, a freestyle mogul skier representing Sweden, will compete in the female category despite being a transgender man. 24-year-old Lundholm says he has “always been treated well” by the women he competes alongside.  Nevertheless, he also knows that as his profile elevates to the national stage, an increase in hate is inevitable. But Lundholm isn’t letting that specter break his spirit.  “Of course it’s something I thought about,” he told Aftonbladet. “You can hear the voices out there. But then I do […]

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The surprising way a CA professor & her students are preserving centuries of LGBTQ+ history

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In a world overrun by fake news, Professor Juana María Rodríguez is unflinchingly committed to facts.  Since 2016, the University of California, Berkeley professor has mobilized students to preserve LGBTQ+ stories on one of the world’s most extensive historical records: Wikipedia.  Through a unique course taught in partnership with Wiki Education, Rodríguez and her students produce entries for the site that cover niche LGBTQ+ subjects, many of which have fallen through the cracks due to contributor bias. And as the Trump administration works overtime to erase LGBTQ+ history from the national consciousness, Rodríguez knows that the best defense is putting […]

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