Texas Republicans Target Transgender Rights With New Dress Code Policy

In a move that's bound to make headlines, Sid Miller, the Texas Agriculture Commissioner, is mandating that all his employees dress "in a manner...

Texas Moves Closer to Banning Transgender Care

The Texas House has approved a bill that would ban certain medical treatments for transgender minors, with the legislation now just two steps away...

‘Lightyear’ Star Chris Evans Calls Critics Of LGBTQ+ Representation ‘Idiots’

LOS ANGELES, June 14 (Reuters) - Walt Disney Co's DIS.N new animated Pixar movie "Lightyear" features a gay couple, the latest step by the company to show traditionally...

Texas Senate Passes Controversial Bill Banning LGBTQ+ Discussion In K-12

The Texas Senate has passed a bill that would ban any discussion of sexual orientation or gender identity from kindergarten through twelfth grade. This...

Texas DAs Challenge Paxton & Abbott’s Prosecution of LGBTQ+ Rights

Earlier this week, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton published an opinion stating that some sorts of medical care for trans adolescents constitutes child abuse,...

‘Don’t Say Gay’ Bills Aren’t New. They’ve Just Been Revived.

Originally published by The 19th Earlier this month, Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey signed into law House Bill 322, colloquially dubbed the “Don’t Say Gay” bill,...

Families File A Lawsuit To Block Texas’s New Law Banning Gender Transition-related Care For...

On Wednesday several families with transgender children filed a lawsuit at the state court to block a new Texas law that would stop minors...

In The GOP’s War On LGBQT Tennessee Bans Drag In Public And Gender Medicine

Seemingly overnight, MAGA America suddenly became drag-phobic some 70 years after the biggest television star of the conservative 1950s came beaming into living rooms...

‘Don’t Say Gay’: Florida Expected To Pass New LGBTQ Bill

March 8 (Reuters) - Florida's Senate on Tuesday is expected to pass a Republican-backed bill that would prohibit classroom discussion of sexual orientation and gender identity...

Targeting LGBTQ+ Americans May Be A Losing Game

Originally published by The 19th We're answering the "how" and "why" of LGBTQ+ news. Sign up for our daily newsletter. Nine out of 10 heterosexual Americans...
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