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Sowing division and fear: MAGA demands more bans on transgender athletes after SCOTUS ruling
3+ hour, 51+ min ago (177+ words) MS NOW Let people see this hate still exists: Rep. Green defends free speech of white nationalist group Sowing division and fear: MAGA demands more bans on transgender athletes after SCOTUS ruling Terrified President Trump uses July 4th speech to push…...
Supreme Court approves state sports bans for transgender women and girls
5+ day, 3+ hour ago (344+ words) More than half the states in the country have restricted transgender women and girls from playing women's and girls' sports. The Supreme Court approved state bans on'transgender women and girls in sports, siding with Idaho and West Virginia in cases…...
Donald Trump just admitted what the GOP's anti-trans agenda is all about
2+ week, 2+ day ago (172+ words) MS NOW "It's existential for the country': Democratic Senate candidate Mallory Mc Morrow on the must-win Michigan Senate race "I'm coming to change our politics:' Democrat Abdul El-Sayed on his run for the U. S. Senate in Michigan Lawrence: Trump picked the…...
We will not look away: Velshi on journalism, citizenship, and his move to prime time
3+ week, 6+ day ago (281+ words) Bearing witness has never mattered more than it does right now. And you don't have to be a journalist to bear witness. Darnella Frazier, Renee Good, Alex Pretti, Eugene Goodman, and Febb Burn. History is filled with people who bore…...
New poll: Support for LGBTQ+ issues remains down
1+ mon, 2+ day ago (131+ words) President Trump has appointed Bill Pulte as Acting Director of National intelligence. Pulte, who leads the Federal Housing Finance Agency, has no known background in intelligence, defense or national security. President Trump naming Pulte in an "acting" role means he…...
Opinion | Why trans folks aren't writing Barney Frank eulogies
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (686+ words) The first openly gay member of Congress was indisputably a trailblazer, but today's LGBTQ community will take it from here. Former U. S. Rep. Barney Frank, a gay political trailblazer, died Wednesday at 86. Frank was the first member of the U. S. House of…...
Opinion | Trump's war on trans people could be headed to a screen near you
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (310+ words) Conservatives in charge of the FCC want to add a warning label to children's television programs that make references to transgender or nonbinary people. President Donald Trump and his allies at the Federal Communications Commission want to take their war…...
Texas Children's Hospital to launch "detransition clinic" as part of settlement
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (579+ words) The hospital will also fire five physicians and pay $10 million to settle Attorney General Ken Paxton's investigation into its provision of gender-affirming care. Texas Children's Hospital will stop providing gender-affirming care to minors and fire five physicians who did, develop…...
TX moms on defeating right-wing book bans: 'Our kids are worth it, our public schools are worth it"
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (253+ words) In 2022, conservative members of a school board in Texas restricted titles on topics like race, gender, and sexuality from schools. Members of the community organized to push back, and this week, those right-wing trustees were voted out. Grapevine-Colleyville Independent School…...
PA House Democrats pass bill banning whites-only housing without GOP support
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (221+ words) After Pennsylvania House Republicans vote against a bill banning whites-only housing and adding protections for members of the LGBTQ community, MS NOW's Ali Velshi asks Democratic Speaker of the Pennsylvania House Joanna Mc Clinton to help him understand why Republicans…...