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From LGBTQ and allied leaders and organizations Join 100+ organizations and leaders in calling on the New York Times to improve their coverage of transgender people, click here.  NEW: Read the 2/15/2024 press release here. Read the 2/15/2023 press release here. The New York Times has long been the standard for excellence in journalism: […]

A list of 2024 anti- transgender bills proposed nationwide as well as state by state is available at: https://www.equalityfederation.org/tracker/cumulative-anti-transgender. Broad anti-LGBTQ legislation and state-by-state bills can also be found at: https://www.aclu.org/legislative-attacks-on-lgbtq-rights-2024. Checklist for Media Reporting on Transgender People and Issues Ask for interviewee name and pronouns and use them in your reporting.  Do not […]

[…] GLAAD, the world’s largest LGBTQ media advocacy organization, today continued calls for the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) to reconsider its decision to give the upcoming transgender-inclusive film ‘3 Generations’ a restricted ‘R’ rating. GLAAD also announced a Change.org petition launched by Blair Durkee, a transgender woman in South Carolina, which also urges […]

ACTIVIST IS THIRD TRANSGENDER PERSON TO BE PENALIZED FOR SPEAKING UP AT A STATEHOUSE WHERE LAWMAKERS ARE PROPOSING AND PASSING BILLS TARGETING TRANS PEOPLE  (Austin, Texas and New York, NY – May 2, 2023) – GLAAD, the world’s largest LGBTQ media advocacy organization; and Equality Texas, the largest statewide organization working to secure full […]

[…] that explicitly bar participation due to race, gender, or disability or through systemic factors that disproportionately make voting more difficult for marginalized groups. During a time when  transgender issues such as healthcare discrimination and access to public accommodations have become a visible and often contentious part of politics, transgender Americans face unique struggles that negatively […]

  On Sunday, after months of debating and public testimony across four arduous legislative sessions, Texas lawmakers passed a law that shuts transgender youth out of school sports. HB 25, which now goes to Governor Greg Abbott’s desk for his signature, limits schoolchildren from kindergarten through 12th Grade to participating in sports according to […]

[…] would protect those traveling from states with restrictive reproductive health laws to access care. Rep. Brianna Titone, an Arvada Democrat and the state General Assembly’s first out transgender member, calls the bill “imperative” to protect patients and medical professionals who provide health care to transgender people. “As laws around the country seek to prevent […]

[…] LGBTQ athletes. According to Outsports, at least 185 out LGBTQ athletes participated in the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 (which took place in 2021), including the first out transgender and nonbinary Olympians, Laurel Hubbard of New Zealand, Alana Smith of the U.S., and Quinn of Canada, to qualify. In total, 56 out LGBTQ athletes won […]