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The Soapbox: Do Better, Chris Sununu
Sunday, March 24th, 2024
via Manchester Ink Link (New Hampshire)At a recent Portsmouth Chamber of Commerce event on March 11, Chris Sununu responded to a question from an audience member asking how New Hampshire can provide a safe environment for the LGBTQ+…
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Manhattan parent board’s anti-trans vote complicates debate over mayoral control of public schools
Friday, March 22nd, 2024
via City & State NY (New York)Progressives want to give greater control of public schools to parents – just not these parents.
School Board – General, LGBTQ+, Parent Involvement
Florida tried to erase LGBTQ teachers. These educators refuse to go quietly
Wednesday, March 20th, 2024
via al.com (Alabama)Florida's cascade of anti-LGBTQ legislation forces dedicated teachers to choose between their right to exist as their authentic selves and their passion for educating students.
LGBTQ+, Parent Involvement
Louisiana Republicans eye anti-trans ‘bathroom bill’ targeting schools, public buildings
Wednesday, March 20th, 2024
via The Times-Picayune (Louisiana)The Louisiana Legislature is continuing its attacks on the rights of transgender people in the state.
LGBTQ+
CT healthcare org offers $10K LGBTQ+ advocacy scholarships for high school seniors entering college
Wednesday, March 20th, 2024
via New Haven Register (Connecticut)Connecticut's Health Care Advocates International this month announced it would award five scholarships to high school seniors demonstrating LGBTQ+ allyship or
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‘Their dream in this country is to stay alive’ • Michigan Advance
Monday, March 18th, 2024
via Michigan Advance (Michigan)Chasten Buttigieg said that politics is a form of theater during a guest lecture on Saturday hosted by the Michigan State University Department of Theatre, saying that politicians who attack members…
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Conservative group takes aim at RSU 21 policy – and parents push back
Friday, March 15th, 2024
via Portland Press Herald (Maine)Sghts of trans and gender-nonconforming students.
School Board – General, LGBTQ+
Nex Benedict ‘should still be here with us,’ President Biden says
Thursday, March 14th, 2024
via Tulsa World (Oklahoma)"In memory of Nex, we must all recommit to our work to end discrimination and address the suicide crisis impacting too many nonbinary and transgender children," his statement reads.
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Harry Bronson, Assembly’s out labor chair, vows to boost equity and workforce development in New York
Wednesday, March 13th, 2024
via amNewYork (New York)Rochester-based Assemblymember Harry Bronson is the chair of the Labor Committee for the first time in his decade-plus tenure in the State Legislature. But he is no stranger to that committee — or…
LGBTQ+
GOP-led states expand crackdowns on transgender care
Wednesday, March 13th, 2024
via The Washington Post (South Carolina)South Carolina and Virginia are the only two Southern states without bans on trans minors obtaining gender-affirming care. Republicans controlling South Carolina's legislature are trying to change that.
LGBTQ+
Time running out for lawmakers to advance some major bills
Tuesday, March 12th, 2024
via Globe Gazette (Iowa)In the balance: changes to AEAs, gender identity and school safety
LGBTQ+, School Safety
From child labor rollbacks to attacks on trans people, Republicans pursue a radically cruel agenda in Louisiana
Monday, March 11th, 2024
via The Times-Picayune (Louisiana)Over the last eight years while Texas, Florida, Alabama and other deep-red Southern states engaged in a race to the bottom on human rights, criminal justice and basic decency, Louisiana
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CT lawmakers: Protect children from deceptive, unfair and dangerous policies
Thursday, March 7th, 2024
via Hartford Courant (Connecticut)Our proposals are consistent with good public policy and are also overwhelmingly supported by voters.
LGBTQ+
Supporting LGBTQ+ students
Wednesday, March 6th, 2024
via Sun Journal (Maine)BETHEL — 'Correct pronoun use is suicide prevention,' said Training Coordinator August Sender of OutMaine. '[Using someone's correct pronouns] is like saying, ‘I see you, I hear you … ,'' Sender…
LGBTQ+
A heated custody battle over a transgender child in California stokes a viral debate
Monday, March 4th, 2024
via Los Angeles Times (California)Adam Vena claims California took his child because he wouldn't accept the child is transgender went viral. The case is far more complicated than that.
LGBTQ+, Parent Involvement
Nex Benedict’s school will be investigated over possible federal civil rights violations
Saturday, March 2nd, 2024
via The Oklahoman (Oklahoma)The 16-year-old's death has drawn national scrutiny to Owasso Public Schools.
LGBTQ+
Missouri Bill Makes Teachers Sex Offenders If They Accept Trans Kids’ Pronouns
Friday, March 1st, 2024
via Riverfront Times (Missouri)Provide support or information related to the "social transition" of a child and you're a felon, apparently
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Some states are trying to make sex binary. Transgender people see their existence denied
Thursday, February 29th, 2024
via Arizona Daily Star (Arizona)Efforts in Republican-led states to write definitions of male and female into law are leading to outcry that the measures deny transgender people legal recognition.
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Swelling rage around LGBTQ+ student’s death outed Owasso’s troubling history
Thursday, February 29th, 2024
via The Oklahoman (Oklahoma)The death of Nex Benedict following a school fight has cast a glaring light on Oklahoma and the city where it happened over the safety of transgender and gay children.
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