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(New York, NY – June 1, 2021) – GLAAD, the world’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) media advocacy organization, is responding to Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ signing SB 1028 into law. The law bans transgender youth from participating in school sports consistent with their gender identity and is the first anti-LGBTQ […]

[…] Trans Awareness Week, Houston-based organization The Mahogany Project (a non-profit organization that hosts fundraisers, community nights, and awareness campaigns for LGBTQ+ issues) presented the 5th annual Black Transgender Empowerment Week celebration. The week of events, celebration, and awareness raising was held from November 15th-November 21st 2023 in partnership with VIIV Healthcare, Southern AIDS Coalition, […]

[…] questions were asked. GLAAD also published a primer on the anti-LGBTQ stances and records of the candidates. The sole question from the moderators on LGBTQ issues misgendered transgender girls, calling them “biological boys.” Nikki Haley responded, “We’ve got crazy woke things happening in these schools… I will always fight for girls all day long… […]

71% of Americans say they have never met a transgender person. Well, here they are. GLAAD, in collaboration with GROUND Media, an award-winning strategic storytelling studio, launched Here We Are, a campaign that aims to combat misinformation about the transgender community. The campaign features transgender people from Ohio and Florida alongside supportive family members. […]

LOS ANGELES, CA – GLAAD, the nation’s lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) media advocacy organization, today announced Nick Adams as Director of Programs, Transgender Media. In that role, Adams will helm GLAAD’s longstanding work to increase the quantity and quality of transgender representation in news, entertainment, and digital media. “Improving the way transgender […]

[…] month. Passed yesterday by the South Dakota House of Representatives, HB 1057 is a harmful anti-trans bill that seeks to ban and criminalize life-saving medical care for transgender youth, and would allow doctors to be arrested and imprisoned if they decide to provide this care. As the bill heads to the Senate as early as this week, […]

GLAAD denounces the Archdiocese of Indianapolis’ new policy which targets transgender young people for rejection and exclusion in all areas of school life. The archdiocese’s “Policy and Complementary Norms on Sexual Identity in School Ministries of the Roman Catholic Church in the Archdiocese of Indianapolis” is signed by Archbishop Charles C. Thompson and Chancellor Annette […]

[…] Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, as nominee for Assistant Secretary for Health and Human Services.   It will be the first Senate confirmation hearing for an out transgender person for a presidential nomination. If confirmed, Dr. Levine would be the highest-ranking transgender official in the U.S. government. Best practices for covering Dr. Levine, the […]