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UCI plays big role in national initiative to make health research more inclusive

Friday, July 26th, 2024

via OC Register (California)

The All of Us program not only includes vast information — even genetic — about nearly 1 million participants, but it also aims to build a participant pool that reflects the diversity of the countr…

LGBTQ+

Elon Musk’s estranged daughter calls out his ‘entirely fake’ claims about her childhood

Friday, July 26th, 2024

via Wisconsin State Journal (Wisconsin)

Vivian Jenna Wilson, Elon Musk's estranged daughter, publicly refuted several recent anti-trans statements her Tesla CEO and X owner father has made about her.

LGBTQ+

Elon Musk’s transgender daughter, in first interview, says he berated her for being queer as a child

Friday, July 26th, 2024

via NBC Bay Area (California)

In an exclusive interview, Vivian Jenna Wilson said her father's recent statements, including that she is 'not a girl,' inspired her to speak out: 'I'm not just gonna let that slide.'

LGBTQ+

Why the trans community finds Elon Musk’s latest insults harder to ignore

Wednesday, July 24th, 2024

via San Francisco Chronicle (California)

Queer and trans folk said that as much as they'd prefer to ignore Musk's words, his rhetoric is too popular and too dangerous to discount.

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‘We’ve created medical refugees.’ LGBTQ+ health care workers fight for gender-affirming care amid rise in anti-trans laws

Thursday, July 18th, 2024

via The Mercury News (California)

Yearly surveys of first-year medical students by the Assn. of American Medical Colleges show that the percentage identifying as transgender and gender nonconforming doubled from 0.7% in 2020 to 1.4…

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‘We’ve created medical refugees.’ LGBTQ+…

Thursday, July 18th, 2024

via Orlando Sentinel (Florida)

Yearly surveys of first-year medical students by the Assn. of American Medical Colleges show that the percentage identifying as transgender and gender nonconforming doubled from 0.7% in 2020 to 1.4…

LGBTQ+

Cal Lutheran says Libs of TikTok viral post in which professor wishes Trump dead is fake

Thursday, July 18th, 2024

via Los Angeles Times (California)

Cal Lutheran said a right-wing social media account shared false information, posting images that appeared to show the professor hoping Trump would be killed.

LGBTQ+

10 charter schools approved to open as NYC hits limit again

Wednesday, July 17th, 2024

via New York Daily News (New York)

Charter school operators were approved Wednesday to open 10 more locations in New York City — but a handful of new programs, including a LGBTQ-focused school, were shut out of the vote.

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Meet the Arizona-based Christian law firm working to ban abortion nationwide

Saturday, July 13th, 2024

via Arizona Daily Star (Arizona)

The Arizona-based Alliance Defending Freedom is arguably one of the most significant legal and political powerhouses working in the United States.

Parent Involvement, LGBTQ+

Revisiting John Lennon’s Beatle Island and the outlaws of Western fiction

Friday, July 12th, 2024

via OC Register (California)

In the Book Pages this week, Kevin Barry talks about John Lennon, Michael Waters discusses 'The Other Olympians' and more.

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‘We’ve created medical refugees.’ LGBTQ+ healthcare workers fight for gender-affirming care amid rise in anti-trans laws

Wednesday, July 10th, 2024

via Los Angeles Times (California)

The fate of trans healthcare lies in the outcome of a presidential election and next summer's Supreme Court ruling. But these LGBTQ+ healthcare workers are determined to provide gender-affirming care.

LGBTQ+

Burgum’s shifts on national stage disappointing, shocking to some

Saturday, July 6th, 2024

via The Bismarck Tribune (North Dakota)

For most of North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum's two terms in office, he approached the job like a CEO running a business.

Book Bans, LGBTQ+

Judge’s order greatly expands where Biden administration can’t enforce rule protecting LGBTQ+ students

Wednesday, July 3rd, 2024

via Anchorage Daily News (Alaska)

The order applies in Alaska, Kansas, Utah and Wyoming because they sued, plus a patchwork of places elsewhere across the nation.

LGBTQ+, Parent Involvement

Ohio’s reasonable, rational voters have been abandoned by extremist gerrymandered lawmakers • Ohio Capital Journal

Tuesday, July 2nd, 2024

via Ohio Capital Journal (Ohio)

In Ohio, ultra-right wing lawmakers foist unpopular, unwarranted and often harmful stupidity on an unsuspecting public. It's legislative malpractice but that's how GOP supermajorities roll under the…

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LGBTQ leaders on the past, present and future of the equality movement

Monday, July 1st, 2024

via OC Register (California)

Here's what some of today's most influential names at the forefront of the fight for equal rights have to say about the past, present and future of the LGBTQ rights movement.

School Board – General, LGBTQ+

Doug Burgum vetoed anti-LGBTQ measures while governor. Then he started running for president

Saturday, June 29th, 2024

via The Washington Post

For most of North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum's two terms in office, he has approached the job like a CEO running a business

Book Bans, LGBTQ+

Know your rights and how to support your LGBTQ+ child in challenging times

Wednesday, June 26th, 2024

via al.com (Alabama)

It's Pride Month! In the final guide of Reckon's series, here's everything you need to know about raising queer, trans and nonbinary kids in our current moment of rampant anti-LGBTQ sentiment

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Yes, intersex people exist. A Twin Cities advocate is fighting for their rights.

Friday, June 21st, 2024

via Star Tribune (Minnesota)

Hiding in plain sight, overlooked by law and culture, intersex Minnesotans want visibility — and to ban cosmetic, nonessential surgeries on intersex children.

LGBTQ+, Sex Education

Elisabeth Epps, Tim Hernández — two of the Colorado legislature’s most liberal lawmakers — battle to keep their jobs

Thursday, June 20th, 2024

via The Colorado Sun (Colorado)

Both Denver Democratic representatives are facing primary challenges on June 25. Lots of money is being spent by groups with hidden donors to defeat them.

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