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Trump admin makes final rule allowing anti-trans discrimination in health care

Trump admin makes final rule allowing anti-trans discrimination in health care

  • by Chris Johnson, Washington Blade
  • Jun 12, 2020

Disregarding pleas from transgender advocates, the Trump administration made final on Friday a rule enabling health care providers to refuse care to transgender people, including gender reassignment surgery.

LGBTQ athletes urge NCAA to nix events in Idaho over anti-trans sports law

LGBTQ athletes urge NCAA to nix events in Idaho over anti-trans sports law

  • by Chris Johnson, Washington Blade
  • Jun 11, 2020

Lesbian athletes Billie Jean King and Megan Rapinoe are calling on the NCAA to move a major basketball competition from Idaho in the wake of the state enacting a law barring transgender girls from playing in school sports.

LGBTQ Agenda: Florida study will assess usefulness of family acceptance strategies for Latino LGBTQ youth

LGBTQ Agenda: Florida study will assess usefulness of family acceptance strategies for Latino LGBTQ youth

  • by John Ferrannini
  • Jun 8, 2020

A new study will provide free family support services to Hispanic and/or Latino LGBTQ youth to determine which strategies will increase family acceptance and reduce the risks stemming from rejection, such as suicide.

LGBTQ group's offices not damaged in AFL-CIO fire

LGBTQ group's offices not damaged in AFL-CIO fire

  • by Lou Chibbaro Jr., Washington Blade
  • Jun 4, 2020

The offices of the LGBTQ labor group Pride At Work were not damaged by a fire at the AFL-CIO building near the White House that was started Sunday night (May 31) by looters who broke away from demonstrators protesting the death of George Floyd.

Online Extra: Biden issues Pride Month statement, while Trump criticized for ignoring it

Online Extra: Biden issues Pride Month statement, while Trump criticized for ignoring it

  • by Matthew S. Bajko
  • Jun 1, 2020

Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee former vice president Joe Biden celebrated Monday as the start of Pride Month, while President Donald Trump faced criticism for again failing to recognize the annual LGBT celebration.

Online Extra: LGBTQ Agenda: HRC report shows foster care agencies more accepting of queer youth

Online Extra: LGBTQ Agenda: HRC report shows foster care agencies more accepting of queer youth

  • by John Ferrannini
  • Jun 1, 2020

The federal government and foster care agencies are taking divergent paths in the area of recognizing the LGBTQ identities of foster youth.

Online Extra: LGBTQ organizations respond to latest racial violence

Online Extra: LGBTQ organizations respond to latest racial violence

  • by Matthew S. Bajko
  • May 29, 2020

In response to the latest racial violence and killings of transgender people across the country, leaders of 75 LGBTQ advocacy groups in the U.S. issued a joint statement Friday recommitting themselves and their organizations to addressing racism.

Online Extra: Richard Grenell to step down as US ambassador to Germany

Online Extra: Richard Grenell to step down as US ambassador to Germany

  • by Michael K. Lavers, Washington Blade
  • May 28, 2020

U.S. Ambassador to Germany Richard Grenell plans to step down from his post.

Online Extra: Pentagon's annual LGBTQ Pride event canceled over coronavirus concerns

Online Extra: Pentagon's annual LGBTQ Pride event canceled over coronavirus concerns

  • by Chris Johnson, Washington Blade
  • May 28, 2020

It's another cancellation as a result of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.

Online Extra: Appeals court likely to wait for high court in Grimm case

Online Extra: Appeals court likely to wait for high court in Grimm case

  • by Lisa Keen
  • May 27, 2020

One judge likened the use of separate restrooms for transgender students to separate restrooms for blacks.

Updated: Online Extra: Trans woman at center of Supreme Court case dies

Updated: Online Extra: Trans woman at center of Supreme Court case dies

  • by Cynthia Laird
  • May 12, 2020

A transgender woman who is at the center of one of the LGBT discrimination cases now before the U.S. Supreme Court has died.

Online Extra: LGBTQ Agenda: VideoOut raising money to put coming out stories online

Online Extra: LGBTQ Agenda: VideoOut raising money to put coming out stories online

  • by John Ferrannini
  • May 7, 2020

A nonprofit is raising money on GoFundMe to put 50 coming out stories online to inspire and educate LGBT people — particularly in places without long-established queer communities.

Online Extra: Supreme Court hears ACA case that could impact LGBTs

Online Extra: Supreme Court hears ACA case that could impact LGBTs

  • by Lisa Keen
  • May 7, 2020

While LGBT people nervously await the U.S. Supreme Court's decisions regarding two big employment discrimination cases, the court this month heard arguments in other cases that could have significant impact.

Online Extra: LGBTQ Agenda: LGBTQs who are nonreligious face dual stigma, study finds

Online Extra: LGBTQ Agenda: LGBTQs who are nonreligious face dual stigma, study finds

  • by John Ferrannini
  • May 5, 2020

A study released Tuesday (May 5) by American Atheists shows that people who identify as nonreligious experience discrimination and stigma nationwide, particularly LGBTQ people who identify as atheist, agnostic, or humanist.