Arizona - GOP bill to ‘erase’ trans and nonbinary Arizonans from the law inches toward passage

Gloria Rebecca Gomez

AZ Mirror

Kingman, AZ (r)

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ezs note:  Arizonans - when your state representative or state senator casts such bilge your way, do your best to boot them out!

national/world - Mother, son set to run Chicago Marathon to support movement for trans, nonbinary young people

Lauren Victory

CBS News

Highland Park, IL

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Utah - Utah great-grandma has heartwarming reaction to her great-granddaughter coming out as trans

Ryan Adamczeski

Advocate

Castle Dale, UT (r)

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national/world - Whitmer signs law banning gay and trans ‘panic’ defenses

Brooke Migdon

The Hill

Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D-MI)

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ezs note:  Thank you, Gov. Whitmer! 😃

Maryland - Bailey Anne Kennedy is first trans Miss Maryland USA

Trudy Ring

Advocate

Barclay, MD

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national/world - I Came Out As Trans At 63. People Ask Me Lots Of Questions, But There's 1 That Scares Me Most.

Caragh Donley

HuffPost

New York City, NY

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Arizona - GOP-backed bill critics say will ‘erase’ trans and nonbinary Arizonans heads to the governor

Gloria Rebecca Gomez

AZ Mirror

Avondale, AZ

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Maryland - Anti-LGBTQ+ trolls mock Baltimore bridge disaster and claim replacement will be ‘woke’ and ‘trans’

Emily Maskell

The Pink News

Francis Scott Key bridge collapse

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disaster took place on Dundalk, MD side

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ezs note:  So, how low will some cretins go when "covering" a tragedy?  Oh, just you wait... 😡

The Maine Millennial: Being trans is nothing new

Victoria Hugo-Vidal

The Press-Herald

Acton, ME (c. 1920)

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Black trans individuals killed in Milwaukee, DC, and Chicago

Matt Tracy

Gay City News

Chicago, IL (Navy Pier)

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ezs note:  Yeah, yeah, I know I've repeated it a hundred times, but if you see it, REPORT IT!!!

Leave a comment! 

Court challenge to Indiana trans sports ban has been dropped

Tom Davies

ABC News

Indianapolis, IN

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lead story - Think being trans is a ‘trend’? Consider these 18th-century ‘female husbands’

Gabrielle Bellot

The Guardian

Hannah Snell (1723-1792)

(artist unknown)

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lead story - 2021 on pace to be deadliest yet for trans and gender non-conforming Americans

Gloria Oladipo

The Guardian

Fairfield, CA

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Kansas - KU Law students honored with national award for pro bono work with trans, nonbinary individuals

Sarah Motter

WIBU

Overland Park, KS

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ezs note:  Go KU!!!!

Maryland - Trans former teacher and Maryland school system square off in court

Lou Chibbaro Jr.

Los Angeles Blade

Greenbelt, MD

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civil rights - Fired for Being Trans or for Violating Dress Code? Supreme Court Will Decide.

Jessica Mason Pieklo
Truthout.

Livonia, MI

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civil rights - In 26 States, You Can Still Get Fired for Being Trans

Diana Tourjèe
Vice

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Montana - Dating (or usually not) as trans & Two Spirit

Adrian Jawort
Indian Country Today

Billings, MT (1915)

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lead story - Freed transgender inmate to fight for trans prisoner rights

AP
Houston Chronicle

Lincoln, IL

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civil rights - The Catastrophist, or: On coming out as trans at 37

Emily Todd VanDerWerff
Vox

Los Angeles, CA

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