Georgia - Anti-LGBTQ Bills Expected To Return In Georgia Legislature, Including Transgender Sports Ban

Linda

Lavender

Fairburn, Georgia (r)

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Wyoming - Bills would end all transgender access to female sports, spaces

Press

Jackson Hole News & Guide

Worland, WY

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Missouri - ‘Legislators don’t see me as human’: Missouri trans youth fight to survive anti-LGBTQ+ bills

Sam Levin

The Guardian

Pacific, MO (r)

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New Hampshire - LGBTQ+ advocates contemplate legal challenges to bills affecting trans students

Ethan DeWitt

New Hampshire Bulletin

Columbia, NH (r)

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New Hampshire - Sununu urged to veto NH bills affecting transgender people

Ethan DeWitt

Seacoast Online

Derry, NH

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Washington (state) Republicans introduce bills targeting abortion providers and transgender youth

Nick Hawthorne

KXLY

Spokane Valley, WA

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ezs note:  YOU can make a difference.  Especially if you are in a state representative or state senator, call them up!

name/residence/county

Sen. Mike Padden/Spokane Valley/Spokane (p)

Sen. Phil Fortunato/Auburn/King-Pierce (pts)

Sen. Jim McCune/Graham/Pierce-Thurston (pts)

Rep. Cyndy Jacobsen/Puyallup/Pierce (p)

Rep. Leonard Christian/Spokane Valley/Spokane (p)

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Missouri governor’s office hid plans on gender-affirming care, transgender athletes bills

Annelise Hanshaw

St. Louis Public Radio/Missouri Independent

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Spy vs. Spy

Antonio Prohìas (original artist)

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Wave of anti-transgender bills in Republican-led states divides US faith leaders

David Crary

AP

Durant, OK (home of state Sen. David Bullard)

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ezs note:  Durant, OK and area location - unless he replaces his broken bulb, maybe it's time to replace state Sen. David Bullard. 

Transgender youth: ‘Forced outing’ bills make schools unsafe

Hannah Schoenbaum, Sean Murphy

AP 

Tulsa, OK

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Bills would let transgender people seal name-change requests

Hannah Schoenbaum, Sophie Austin, Manuel Valdes

AP

Olympia, WA

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Anti-Transgender Bills Were Being Pushed in These Five States This Week

James Bickerton

Newsweek

Topeka, KS

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ezs note:  If you live in any of the five states listed below, please call your state Representative and state Senator and urge them to vote against the bill:

• South Dakota
• North Dakota
• Kentucky
• Kansas
• Missouri

Drag queens speak against Missouri bills on transgender kids

Summer Ballentine

ABC News

Jefferson City, MO

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Bills targeting trans youth are growing more common — and radically reshaping lives

Koko Nakajima, Connie Hanzhang Jin

NPR

Little Rock, AR

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lead story - Bills restricting abortion rights, trans rights are 'inextricably linked,' advocates say

Julie Moreau

NBC News

Bill (proposed)

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Rhode Island - Bills creating gender-neutral bathrooms, preventing housing discrimination become law in RI

Sarah Doiron

WPRI

Providence, RI

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Maine - Republican bills to bar Maine transgender girls from girls sports face public hearing

Press

WMTW

Augusta, ME

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lead story - Wave of anti-trans bills is 'really alarming,' says transgender motorsport star

Christina Macfarlane, Sana Noor Haq

CNN

Saint-Gouéno, France

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Ohio - Ohio legislature to see bills critics say are anti-transgender

Laura Hancock

cleveland.com

Arcanum, OH

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lead story - As Texas Legislature considers anti-trans bills, NCAA announces it will not hold events in states that discriminate against trans students

Kate McGee

The Texas Tribune

Mount Pleasant, TX

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lead story - NCAA group condemns anti-transgender sports bills in open letter

Kiara Brantley-Jones

ABC News

NCAA office

Indianapolis, IN

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