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Last Sunday, Florida’s Agency for Health Care Administration’s (AHCA) ended its Medicaid coverage for life saving health care, affecting an estimated 9,000 of the state’s transgender Medicaid enrollees.  The new rules, which were finalized last week, bars Medicaid from covering gender-affirming care. “The Agency for Health Care Administration’s (ACHA) ruling has been denounced by […]

[…] Anti-Violence Programs (NCAVP) released a report profiling a spike in violence against LGBTQ people during the 2019 Pride season, May-June 2019, showing that people of color and transgender people are disproportionally targeted. NCAVP reported that 91% of all LGBTQ homicide victims were Black, and 64% of homicide victims were Black transgender women. In June […]

(Tuesday, May 17, 2022) GLAAD, the world’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) media advocacy organization, is responding to South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster’s signing H4608 into law. The law bans transgender youth from participating in school sports consistent with their gender, in middle school, high school, and college.  The bill was […]

As part of Transgender Awareness Week, GLAAD is elevating transgender and gender nonconforming advocates who are working for safety and acceptance in their local communities. Morgan Sherm is a veteran radio producer who is advocating local news and law enforcement to ensure accurate representation of transgender people in Chicago. GLAAD: Before you were a […]

“Healthcare decisions are fundamentally private and transgender Ohioans, like all Ohioans, deserve dignity and agency with regards to their medical decisions.” – Equality Ohio Your voice matters, and people are listening. On Wednesday, after a public comment period brought out thousands of submissions from Ohioans, health care providers, and equality advocates, the Ohio Department […]

[…] available on GLAAD’s Trump Accountability Tracker. Bullying and anti-LGBTQ policies in education are among the motivators for LGBTQ voters. Trump’s education record includes: ending Obama-era protections allowing transgender students in public schools to choose bathrooms that align with their gender identity. making frequent inflammatory remarks about public schools that push “critical race theory, transgender […]

  GLAAD, the world’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) media advocacy organization, is responding to a new framework of guidelines announced today by the International Olympic Committee that calls for the full inclusion of transgender and intersex athletes. The guidelines, which can be read here, include 10 guiding principles to welcome […]

For the longest time I was tricked into believing that being a transgender man was my greatest source of weakness. I was told this lie time and time again from the cisnormative society in which I was raised. As I became more comfortable with my identity I began to push back against the stigma […]