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Riley Gaines on Fox News | Screenshot Anti-trans activist Riley Gaines, who has dedicated her life to trying to ban trans women from women’s sports, mocked a recent WNBA game she attended as being filled with “a bunch of disgruntled lesbians.” Gaines made the comment during an appearance on Fox News, where she said she

Passengers aboard an American Airlines flight from Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas to Newark, New Jersey duct taped a grey-haired white man to his first-class seat after he began yelling about Jesus and going to hell and then called a Black flight attendant the n-word and “fa**ot” when the attendant tried to de-escalate the situation. Video shared

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A prominent leader in the fight for transgender rights is speaking out about the “near complete exodus of philanthropy” for trans rights organizations in the midst of the Trump administration’s brutal and ongoing campaign against the community. In a piece for Nonprofit Quarterly, Transgender Law Center Executive Director Shelby Chestnut decried the fact that funding

A city employee was attacked early Sunday morning in Sacramento’s LGBTQ+ district of Lavender Heights, where he said four men left him with minor injuries after shouting racist and anti-LGBTQ+ slurs. The victim, Joseph Sais, told KCRA that he was walking home with a friend after a night out when the men started taunting, chasing,

This articlefirst appeared on Mother Jones. It has been republished with the publication’s permission. Before last week, Milo Yiannopoulos was one of the most noxious, divisive, and broadly unpopular far-right figures in the country, having whittled down his allies in the movement over the past decade with a combination of exuberant misogyny and bigotry, catty

The head of a French LGBTQ+ organization has been hospitalized following a brutal attack in the heart of Paris’ LGBTQ+ neighborhood by an assailant who allegedly shouted anti-gay slurs. FLAG! President Pierre Picavet, who is also a police officer, said that he was in the Marais neighborhood late on Saturday, leaving a bar, when a

What this was based on: The report itself was based on a small, unrepresentative survey that asked people about their views on trans rights and whether they support certain high-profile cases of violence against conservatives. LGBTQ+ advocates are already calling it “junk science.” Why it matters: The right has been attempting to paint LGBTQ+ rights

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Screenshot A Trump supporter said that she supported the administration’s cuts to foreign aid because it meant that fewer people would get vaccinated. Comedian Jason Selvig talked to a woman wearing a red cap and a T-shirt with a giant picture of Donald Trump. He asked whether she supported the Trump administration ending the United

179 Democrats currently in Congress signed a brief urging the Supreme Court to uphold Colorado’s anti-discrimination policy in schools, a case the Court will hear next year in St. Mary Catholic Parish v. Roy. Earlier this month, the Supreme Court announced that it would be hearing oral arguments in a lawsuit involving two anti-LGBTQ+ Catholic

Which lawsuit this was: 21 states sued the Department of Health and Human Services over a 2025 rule that said that individual and small-group insurance plans sold on the Obamacare marketplaces could exclude gender-affirming care for trans people of all ages from coverage. Why this matters: Lots of people will be able to access lifesaving

Here are this week’s most popular positive stories, with some fun social media posts tossed in too. Like seeing uplifting content like this?Sign up for our Good News email. This week’s Good News Roundup has it all: queer entertainers standing up for trans people, court victories against anti-LGBTQ+ policies, and even several studies showing that

A federal judge on Friday ruled against a Trump administration provision to to remove gender-affirming care as an essential health benefit covered under the Affordable Care Act, a 2010 law (also known as Obamacare) which requires the federal government to subsidize such benefits. Senior U.S. District Judge Nathaniel Gorton (an appointee of former President George

As middle and high school students head back to class for a new school year, combined research shows that affirming teachers and the support of friends are instrumental to a positive school experience for transgender, nonbinary, and gender-diverse (TGE) students. The research brief, School Experiences and Outcomes Among Transgender, Nonbinary, and Gender-Expansive Young People, is

LGBTQ+ people were the only demographic in a recent poll that supported allowing trans people to compete on sports teams as their gender. In results just posted online from the Pew Research Center, 73% of American adults said that they were either “not too” or “not at all” comfortable with “transgender athletes competing on sports

A Florida newspaper last Wednesday criticized Gov. Ron DeSantis-appointed Attorney General James Uthmeier for telling the Florida Conference of Catholic Bishops that their schools can’t receive taxpayer-funded vouchers if they require vaccinations. “Apparently, Uthmeier believes he understands Catholic values better than some priests, with Pope James saying he has concluded ‘there is no religious basis’

Out actor Neil Patrick Harris said in an interview published yesterday that he publicly came out as gay in a November 2006 statement to People magazine at the age of 33 in anticipation of online blogs potentially outing the then-young actor. Talking with Great Company, a videocast hosted by Jamie Laing, Harris (who is now

The Department of Justice (DOJ) has dropped its appeal in a Pennsylvania case where the adminsitration sought access to the private medical records of transgender children. In a short motion, the DOJ asked the US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit to dismiss its appeal to a lower court decision that denied the DOJ’s

Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) — a MAGA congresswoman who has repeatedly accused LGBTQ+ people and their supporters of “grooming” children for sexual abuse — has a 21-year-old son who, as of today, has been charged with three felony counts related to sexual exploitation of a child. Her son, Tyler Boebert, was arrested on Sunday and

A new study has found that healthcare professionals are not doing enough to screen trans patients who have had top surgery for breast cancer. Published July 29 in the Breast Cancer Research and Treatment journal, the researchers emphasized the “dearth of available data” on cancer risk profiles of people who have had gender-affirming mastectomies, “including

Actor Geno Segers will no longer be the next star in the Broadway production of Hadestown after videos of him making transphobic comments resurfaced last week. The producers confirmed in a statement that they have “mutually agreed” to part ways with Segers only days after announcing his role as Hades. While the statement did not