19 May 2020

civil rights - This Week in Judicial Nominations – 5/18

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Rafael Medina The Leadership Conference SCOTUS Credit:   https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c7/Supreme_Court_of_t...

Idaho - Idaho To Federal Judge: Let New Transgender Birth Certificate Ban Go Into Effect

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lead story - Hungary: Decision to strip trans people of the right to legal gender recognition is “step back into the dark ages”

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Donald Trump - Coronavirus Live Updates: W.H.O. Rejects Trump’s Threats but Will Study Its Response

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MAJOR NEWS - possible coronavirus news! (good news, for once!)

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video credit:   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRCCK_ofMBs ezs note:  This is possibly major, major news - the vaccine may be VER...
18 May 2020

civil rights - Commentary: Protecting LGBTQ civil rights is good business

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California - After Long Battle, Public Defender Successfully Secures Release of Transgender Client from ICE Detention

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lead story - Transgender community welcomes change to Victorian birth certificates

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Donald Trump - Trump’s purge just got much more corrupt. Here’s what’s coming next.

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17 May 2020

Nevada - Working for a better Nevada for all, including veterans and marginalized people | Scaffidi

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lead story - Officers charged with allegedly slamming transgender woman's face on ground

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Donald Trump - Republicans are wimping out again on Donald Trump

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16 May 2020

Nebraska - Congressional candidate profile: Babs Ramsey

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lead story - Navy grants waiver allowing transgender sailor to serve openly

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Donald Trump - Coronavirus US live: Obama criticizes Trump in virtual graduation speech – as it happened

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14 May 2020

civil rights - Federal grand jury indicts men accused of murdering transgender women in Puerto Rico

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Delaware - Biden Talks Trans Rights, Calls Conversion Therapy Sick at Fundraiser

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lead story - A transgender person's deadname is nobody's business. Not even a reporter's.

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Donald Trump - Ousted whistleblower Dr. Rick Bright unloads on Trump admin's coronavirus response

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13 May 2020

civil rights - UK LGBT+ group Stonewall names new CEO amid trans rights row

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Oregon - A Lawsuit Against Gov. Kate Brown Reunites Old Allies From the Conservative Edge of Oregon Politics

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lead story - Transgender female health secretary snaps at reporter for calling her ‘sir’ repeatedly

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Donald Trump -People Are Dying, the Economy Is Collapsing and Trump Wants You to Look at This Squirrel

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civil rights - Commentary: In 2 cases that await Supreme Court decision, the stakes are enormous for LGBTQ employee protection

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12 May 2020

Utah - Reese: The NCAA should boycott BYU

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lead story - Michigan woman at center of transgender civil rights case dies at 59

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Donald Trump - Supreme court grills Trump lawyers over president's unreleased tax returns

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11 May 2020

Maryland -- Name change fundraiser planned

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lead story - B.C. school trustee blasted for transgender coronavirus conspiracy theory attacking Dr. Theresa Tam

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Donald Trump - White House Orders Staff to Wear Masks as Trump Misrepresents Testing Record

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10 May 2020

civil rights - DeVos Guts Title IX Protections, Angering Trans Advocates

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Pennsylvania - Braddock Restaurant Owner Makes ‘Bullying’ Comments About Pa. Secretary Of Health Dr. Rachel Levine

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lead story - LGBTQ Americans are getting coronavirus, losing jobs. Anti-gay bias is making it worse for them.

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Donald Trump - Trump charges Obama with 'biggest political crime in American history'

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Martin Pengelly The Guardian ezs note:  Y'know, Donald isn't even funny anymore.  He's just a tired old husk of a '...
09 May 2020

civil rights - Nat’l Center for Transgender Equality Action Fund endorses Biden

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Connecticut - Democratic View: A Kinder Connecticut

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lead story - Reproductive concerns among transgender adolescents may manifest as ‘disinterest’ in future parenthood

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Donald Trump - Trump fumes as White House staffers test positive and death toll nears 80,000 – as it happened

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Bryan Armen Graham, Tom Lutz, Martin Pengelly, Edward Helmore The Guardian  video credit:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jeNyVN-rVL...
08 May 2020

civil rights - Aimee Stephens brought the first major trans rights case to the Supreme Court. She may not live to see the decision.

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Kentucky - The LGBTQ+ community behind bars during COVID-19

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lead news - HRC Mourns Helle Jae O’Regan, Trans Woman Killed in San Antonio

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Donald Trump - This is one of Trump’s biggest and most insulting lies yet

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07 May 2020

civil rights - HRC Mourns Nina Pop, Black Trans Woman Killed in Missouri

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Virginia - ‘Virginia Is For Lovers.’ Now That Slogan Includes The LGBTQ

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lead story - Clinicians and autistic transgender youth partner to create first community-built care model

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Donald Trump - George Conway: Trump went ballistic at me on Twitter. Here’s why he reacts with such rage.

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05 May 2020

civil rights - Transgender woman's death in SE Missouri under investigation

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Indiana - Highest ranked Super Smash Bros. Ultimate player in Indiana doesn't let transphobia hold her back

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lead story - Transgender People Face Discrimination, Violence Amid Latin American Quarantines

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Donald Trump - A leaderless nation adrift in a crisis

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