Perspectives

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Trump’s definitions of “male” and “female” are nonsense science with staggering ramifications

A few hours after taking the Oath of Office on Monday, President Donald Trump issued an executive order purporting to redefine “male” and “female” by fiat. The order, with the cumbersome title “Defending Women From Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government,” instructs all executive agencies—including those governing education, health, housing, and employment—to use new definitions of “male” and “female” in every aspect of their work: (d)  “Female” means a person belonging, at conception, to the sex that produces the large reproductive cell. (e)  “Male” means a person belonging, at conception, to the sex that produces the small […]

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Donald Trump is coming for our rights. Democratic governors need to join the fight.

“We don’t do ourselves any favor by pretending like it’s not going to be horrible during the Trump administration,” state Rep. Leigh Finke (D), author of Minnesota’s trans refuge law, told LGBTQ Nation. “And I’m not the kind of person who would sugarcoat what’s coming.” She knows that many of her constituents—not to mention the queer community at large—fear Donald Trump’s second term. It’s not yet Inauguration Day, but queer folks are taking precautions for the next four years like updating their ID documents and getting married.  They’re also looking to their elected officials. How can Democratic governors protect the LGBTQ+ community when the […]

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The gay tennis players smashing down barriers at the Australian Open 2025

The first Grand Slam event on the 2025 tennis calendar, the Australian Open, got underway in Melbourne on Sunday (12 January), and there are several gay tennis players offering some vital rainbow LGBTQ+ representation. Since the days of trailblazing gay Grand Slam champions Billie Jean King and Martina Navratilova, women’s tennis has long provided some of the biggest LGBTQ+ names in sport – and there are currently several players Women’s Tennis Association (WTA) tour carrying that torch for a new generation. The men’s Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) tour continues to lag way behind the women’s game: Until last year, there were no […]

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Donald Trump takes office next week. What happens next?

On November 6, 2024, LGBTQ+ people woke up to a dark new world. Donald Trump had just been reelected after being the center of one career-ending scandal after another for what felt like every week for almost a decade. His win raised a lot of questions: Why were so many people willing to set aside his obvious lack of qualifications? Did most of America really support the policies that he sold throughout the campaign, like mass deportation and ending transgender people’s rights? How far will he go to enact his less popular policies? How many people would he hurt along […]

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Senate to vote on Tommy Tuberville’s anti-trans athlete bill

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The U.S. Senate will vote on Sen. Tommy Tuberville’s bill to bar transgenderwomen and girls from competing in female school sports. Senate Majority Leader John Thune placed the bill on the chamber’s calendar last week, meaning a vote will be held in the next few weeks, The Hill reports. A firm date for the vote has not been set. The bill from Tuberville, an Alabama Republican, would stipulate that under Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, which bans sex discrimination in schools that receive federal funds, “sex shall be recognized based solely on a person’s reproductive biology and genetics at birth.” Tuberville announced its reintroduction last week. He […]

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For Anita Bryant, there will be no orange juice in hell

I know you’re not supposed to say anything bad about the dead; however, when Rush Limbaugh and Pat Robertson died, I broke decorum, and with Anita Bryant’s death I shall do the same. When I heard that she died, all I could think about was that Satan himself greeted her with a pie in the face upon her entrance to hell. Bryant was once celebrated as a singer and beauty queen, but those of us who are old enough remember her, nightmarishly, as a vehement anti-LGBTQ+ activist in the 1970s. She went on a horrible antigay crusade that inflicted significant harm on countless people and left an indelible […]

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Gay NBA Hall of Famer Rick Welts on being named the Mavericks’ CEO 

In a groundbreaking move for the Dallas Mavericks, Rick Welts, a luminary in the world of professional basketball and an LGBTQ+ trailblazer, has been appointed as the team’s new chief executive officer. With a storied career spanning over four decades, Welts brings a wealth of experience and a legacy of innovation to the Mavericks organization.  In an interview with The Advocate, Welts shared insights into the process that led to his coming out of retirement and his appointment with the Mavericks. “Patrick Dumont is the governor for the team and reached out through a mutual friend with the premise that he’d like to […]

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White House starts scrapping pending regulations on transgender athletes

President Joe Biden is abandoning his efforts to provide some protections for transgender student athletes and cancel student loans for more than 38 million Americans, the first steps in an administration-wide plan to jettison pending regulations to prevent President-elect Donald Trump from retooling them to achieve his own aims. The White House expects to pull back unfinished rules across several agencies if there isn’t enough time to finalize them before Trump takes office. If the proposed regulations were left in their current state, the next administration would be able to rewrite them and advance its agenda more quickly. Even as […]

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As HHS secretary, RFK Jr. would be a direct threat to LGBTQ+ health

Among Donald Trump’s Cabinet nominees, it’s hard to choose who is the most dangerous to LGBTQ+ rights. But it’s easy to pick out who is the most dangerous to LGBTQ+ health: Robert Kennedy Jr. As the nominee to run the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Kennedy has the potential to make literal life-and-death decisions about the nation’s health. But his crackpot ideas are a direct threat to the very issues that can matter most to the LGBTQ+ community.  Much has been made of Kennedy’s conspiracy-ridden, fringe beliefs. He believes that vaccines cause autism, even though abundant evidence has shown no […]

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British Lawn Tennis Association bans trans women from some female events

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The British Lawn Tennis Association (LTA) has announced that transgender women will be banned from competing in some domestic tournaments. The LTA oversees the domestic game, so the rule changes do not apply to international matches which are played on British soil, including Wimbledon, or other events such as an internal club tournament, where venues will decide on their own rules. However, the updated policy on transgender and non-binary participation means trans women and people assigned male at birth won’t be allowed to play in the women’s category in matches against players from another club or county. “We are changing our policy […]

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