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15.12.2021 / 02:55

US’ LGBT Population Is 20 Million, Double Previous Estimates

A new study carried out by the U.S. Census Bureau’s Household Pulse Survey reveals that at least eight per cent of the country’s adult population identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender.

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14.12.2021 / 19:17

Georgia prison system pays family of trans inmate $2.2 million after death by suicide

Georgia’s prison system has agreed to pay $2.2 million to the parents of a transgender inmate who died by suicide in her cell in 2017 — after officials ignored her threats and waited several minutes before getting medical help, according to documents filed in a civil lawsuit.The settlement, first reported by CNN, was reached on Dec. 6 — the fourth anniversary of Jenna Mitchell’s death.It is one of the state’s prison system’s biggest wrongful death settlements ever and follows the Justice Department’s investigation into allegations of unconstitutional abuse in Georgia prisons.“The financial settlement is barely nudging any kind of justice,” Mitchell’s mother, Sheba Maree, told CNN.

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14.12.2021 / 17:13

Kim Petras says US record labels dismissed her as ‘gay club music’

Kim Petras has discussed her rocky road to stardom, from being seen as a “joke” in her home country of Germany to being dismissed as “gay club music” by the U.S.

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13.12.2021 / 19:43

J.K. Rowling ruffles feathers again, slams cops for letting rape suspects ID as women

been accused of making transphobic comments — took to Twitter on Sunday by sharing an article from The Times of London titled: “‘Absurdity’ of police logging rapists as women.”“War is Peace. Freedom is Slavery.

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13.12.2021 / 12:27

Adrian Murdoch: Looking To The Next Generation Of LGBT Leaders

“I think for me, and I think this is a big part of why I’m still at Minus18, I really admire and look up to the next generation of LGBTQIA+ leaders and people,” they said.These role models include non-binary trans writer Nevo Zisin, speaker and educator and queer First Nations activist and artist Aretha Brown, and co-creator of Hue: Colour the Conversation Elsa Tuet-Rosenberg.Currently, the Religious Discrimination Bill is a focus of Adrian and Minus18.We are “engaged with advocacy groups, such as Equality Australia, as this [Bill] could create a greater divide in the equality of LGBTQIA+ Australians.”“Back then, Prime Minister Morrison backtracked on expelling gay students, but these were empty promises, with a bill in the works that could

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11.12.2021 / 13:01

Transgender teen being forced to leave Boy Scout troop, despite policy allowing female scouts

WHAM. “That was like family to us because when you are with the troop for so long you are family.”The Boy Scouts of America have accepted girls into its Scouting program since 2019, renaming the program for youth ages 11-17 as “Scouts BSA.” However, under the organization’s guidelines, boys and girls cannot be in the same troop after they reach middle school age.

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08.12.2021 / 19:55

Trans college swimmer sets conference records, making national history

A trans athlete is setting records in the pool in her first season with the University of Pennsylvania’s women swimming team.Earlier this month, Lia Thomas won three events at the Zippy Invitational at the University of Akron, setting pool, program and meet records.

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07.12.2021 / 23:19

Jeopardy! champ Amy Schneider reveals how Shakespeare helped her come out as transgender

Jeopardy! champ Amy Schneider has opened up about her experience coming out as transgender — and why William Shakespeare helped her come to terms with her gender identity.Schneider has, as of writing, won 13 games in a row and amassed more than $536,000 in winnings.In addition to becoming the first openly transgender player to qualify for Jeopardy!‘s Tournament of Champions, Schneider is also moving up the rankings of all-time Jeopardy! greats, placing in the top 10 for consecutive games won, highest winnings, and all-time winnings.During a recent episode of Jeopardy!, Schneider discussed her love of acting, in particular the works of Shakespeare.“I have been [acting] from childhood up through about six or seven years ago,” Schneider told

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04.12.2021 / 01:37

Transgender male student abruptly banned from boys’ restroom at Iowa high school

KCAU9. “It really upset me,” the teen told Des Moines-based CBS affiliate KCCI in a separate interview.

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02.12.2021 / 21:43

Keanu Reeves says studio wasn’t ‘ready’ for trans character in ‘Matrix’

Entertainment Weekly, Reeves, 57, said, “I think the studio wasn’t ready for that.”Director Lilly Wachowski explained in a 2020 interview with Netflix that Switch was portrayed by a female in both movie worlds. “The corporate world wasn’t ready for it,” she said at the time.

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01.12.2021 / 01:25

First-ever trans contestant makes it to ‘Jeopardy! Tournament of Champions’

Tuesday interview of her fifth consecutive game win, which qualified her for the “Tournament.” “Once I got it, it was a great feeling, mostly because I was having fun and I didn’t want to stop. By qualifying for the fifth one, I knew I would come back.”She’s since won even more shows, bringing her streak up to nine.

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30.11.2021 / 20:17

Trans Jeopardy! player Amy Schneider makes history competing in Tournament of Champions

Jeopardy! since making her first appearance Nov. 17, during Transgender Awareness Week — and she will now make Jeopardy! history by becoming the first openly trans person to compete in the show’s Tournament of Champions.Last night, Nov.

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29.11.2021 / 16:24

Milwaukee parents sue school district for affirming their child’s gender identity

A group of parents in Wisconsin are suing a Milwaukee school district for affirming children’s gender identities by using their preferred pronouns.The parents argue that Kettle Moraine School District’s policy violates their “fundamental constitutional right” to “raise their children.”One set of parents said they were “forced” to remove their 12-year-old child, who identifies as trans, from school after staff said they’d refer to him with the correct pronouns, despite the “parents’ objection.”The parents contacted the school’s principal, arguing that affirming their child’s identity would not be “in their [son’s] best interest,” but the principal disagreed, saying that his pronouns and name would be respected in line with district

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22.11.2021 / 20:31

J.K. Rowling slams trans activists for sharing address on social media

fiery Twitter thread, which has amassed thousands of likes as of Monday afternoon.“Last Friday, my family’s address was posted on Twitter by three activist actors,” wrote “Troubled Blood” author Rowling, who said she receives endless threats over perceived transphobic comments she made in 2020. The “Fantastic Beasts” scribe identified the culprits as Holly Stars, Richard Energy and Georgia Frost, alleging that they “took pictures of themselves in front of our house, carefully positioning themselves to ensure that our address was visible.”One of the pics showed the trio toting signs outside Rowling’s Edinburgh home with the author’s address clearly visible in the background, according to the Daily Mail.

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22.11.2021 / 19:56

Eddie Redmayne says trans role in ‘The Danish Girl’ was ‘a mistake’

role as the Danish transgender artist Lili Elbe among his professional regrets, the actor said during a recent interview.The biopic “The Danish Girl” told the true story of one of the first people in history to have gender reassignment surgery.The Tom Hooper-directed film starring Redmayne — as well as Alicia Vikander as the artist’s wife, Gerda Wegener, a role that earned her the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress — drew criticism from the LGBTQ community and its allies for not casting a trans actor to play the role. When asked his feelings about the film in hindsight, the 39-year-old British actor told The Sunday Times, “No, I wouldn’t take it on now.

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22.11.2021 / 00:58

LGBTQ Film Review: ‘Little Girl’ captures trans youth’s struggle to be recognized

Little Girl (★★★★★) feels like a decidedly small-scale affair. Filmed cinéma vérité style, with no input from Lifshitz and no grandstanding from talking heads, it instead pulls tight focus onto a single French family, typical in every way except for daughter Sasha, who was assigned male at birth.Deceptively simple in its framing, Lifshitz’s film quietly establishes two protagonists: Sasha, and her mother Karine.

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20.11.2021 / 23:03

At least 47 transgender Americans lost their lives to violence this year

report honoring the 47 who lost their lives to violence, as well as a webpage honoring 13 other trans, nonbinary, or gender-nonconforming individuals whose deaths have not yet been ruled homicides.The report authors note that stigma, bias, and systemic discrimination heighten and even exacerbate the vulnerability of transgender individuals. At the same time, legislators in various states have introduced more than 130 bills targeting transgender individuals, especially transgender youth, with at least 25 of those bills being enacted across eight states.

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20.11.2021 / 02:53

Transgender Football Coach Dani Laidley Returns Home

2 min read Former Australian Rules Football coach Dani Laidley has returned to her former club and spoken for the first time at an event celebrating the club’s debt-free status, the first in more than a generation.

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17.11.2021 / 20:17

Trans student brutally beaten by peers at Georgia high school

11 Alive that she lost consciousness during the attack at Pebblebrook High School in Cobb County, but that the offending students are still in school and continue to threaten her.Video of the Nov. 9 incident shows Payne lying on the ground while she is punched, kicked, and stomped on by multiple students, while others watch nearby.

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12.11.2021 / 18:31

The San Francisco Trans Film Festival streams this weekend

certainly the world’s longest-running transgender film festival.”The 24th annual festival runs through this weekend and will mark the second year it is solely available virtually across the United States.The collected films, says Virago, “are centered on transgender and gender non-conforming experiences, and are also created by gender-nonconforming and transgender filmmakers, so the content can sometimes be larger than issues of gender.”The festival is comprised of seven programs, each consisting of various short films ranging from 2 to 30 minutes in length, and available for on-demand screening through Sunday, Nov.

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03.11.2021 / 08:43

Anti-LGBTQ Republicans sweep all three statewide races in Virginia, seize control of House of Delegates

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02.11.2021 / 19:31

Minnesota furniture company must pay $60,000 to job applicant rejected for being transgender

website that it is northern Minnesota’s largest furniture retailer, has two stores in the cities of Bemidji and Walker. The applicant in question sought employment at the Bemidji store.According to the investigation by the U.S.

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02.11.2021 / 15:37

Minnesota furniture company must pay $60,000 to job applicant it rejected for being transgender

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02.11.2021 / 14:19

Virginia GOP Congressman rails against gay marriage, transgender shelter access in House floor speech

Family Violence Prevention and Services Improvement Act of 2021, a piece of legislation that funds emergency shelters and support services for domestic violence survivors.“Nearly everything that plagues our society can be attributed to a failure to follow God’s law and his rules for and definition of marriage and family,” Good said in his speech.Good attacked the bill’s provisions, which prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity in shelters and support services, and require that shelters that offer sex-segregated or sex-specific programming provide “comparable services to individuals who cannot be provided with the sex-segregated or sex-specific programming.” Good claimed that such provisions would “coerce

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01.11.2021 / 23:54

What Virginia’s elections mean for the LGBTQ community

appeared at political events with members of known anti-LGBTQ groups — has leaned into the issue of schools, in an effort to rally his political base and convince some independents and Democrats to back him by touting stories about alleged “indoctrination” and potentially objectionable content in school curricula or in books being carried by school libraries.The two issues that Youngkin has focused the most on are the alleged introduction of “critical race theory” — a collegiate-level theory that examines the intersection of race and various social, justice, or cultural issues — in schools, and the passage of policies that affirm transgender students’ gender identities, their pronoun usage, and their ability to access gender-affirming

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28.10.2021 / 10:33

US Issues First Passport With ‘X’ Gender Marker To Navy Veteran

The US State Department announced on Wednesday that it had issued the first American passport with an ‘X’ gender marker.

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26.10.2021 / 17:23

Texas Governor Greg Abbott signs transgender athlete ban into law

barring transgender youth from receiving gender-affirming care, in response to criticism from a fellow Republican challenging him in next year’s gubernatorial primary.“We are devastated at the passage of this bill. Despite the powerful testimony of trans kids and adults, families and advocates, and the many emails and calls our community placed to the Governor’s office to veto this harmful piece of legislation, it is now law,” Ricardo Martinez, the CEO of Equality Texas, said in a statement.

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25.10.2021 / 19:59

Vladimir Putin calls transgender equality a “crime against humanity”

Washington Post reports.Putin said it was appalling that children are “taught that a boy can become a girl and vice versa,” calling it “on the verge of a crime against humanity.”He also claimed that those who support transgender rights are seeking to remove “basic things such as mother, father, family or gender differences.”Putin has overseen a growing intolerance of and antagonism towards LGBTQ people in Russia during his time in office.

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22.10.2021 / 17:45

Jon Stewart defends Dave Chappelle: ‘His intention is never hurtful’

new Netflix comedy special, “The Closer.”Stewart, 58, told TMZ Thursday that Chappelle, 48, is “one of my favorite people on the planet” and that his intentions are “never hurtful.” Chappelle has been under fire since the release of “The Closer” earlier this month, in which he declared himself to be a “trans-exclusionary radical feminist” (TERF). “They canceled JK Rowling — my God.

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22.10.2021 / 15:28

Republican Congress members criticize Dr. Rachel Levine after she becomes first transgender four-star officer

first out transgender officer in all eight of the uniformed services, and the first female four-star officer in the PHSCC. In that role, Levine will lead a team of more than 6,000 officers in responding to public health crises and natural disasters.Following her promotion to admiral, Levine’s historic accomplishment was praised by LGBTQ advocates as a milestone for the transgender community.

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21.10.2021 / 22:40

Dr. Rachel Levine becomes first openly trans four-star officer in the uniformed services

Assistant Secretary for Health Dr. Rachel Levine has made history for the second time this year, becoming the first openly transgender four-star officer in all eight of the uniformed services, just months after becoming the first transgender person to be confirmed by the U.S.

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19.10.2021 / 15:51

North Carolina Lieutenant Governor doubles down on comments calling LGBTQ content “filth”

Right Wing Watch, a project of People for the American Way that documents and catalogues videos, recordings, and other media highlighting the actions, incendiary rhetoric, and lies or misrepresentations made by conservative politicians and activists, was the first to share the clip of Robinson’s speech at Asbury Baptist.Among the assertions Robinson made in his speech were that public schools teach children how to “hate America,” that they overemphasize issues of racial and cultural diversity and unfairly label (presumably white) people as “racist,” and that they unnecessarily expose children to issues related to homosexuality and “transgenderism.” He said that exposing children to such content is tantamount to child abuse.“There’s no

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13.10.2021 / 20:47

‘Hamilton’ star claims contract dropped after gender-neutral dressing room request

Deadline, Reid’s lawyers Lawrence M. Pearson and Lindsay M.

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12.10.2021 / 11:21

Netflix suspends trans employee who criticized Dave Chappelle’s special ‘The Closer’

The Closer.Chappelle has been heavily criticized for a number of jokes in the special, which released on Oct. 5, including saying he was “team TERF” (trans-exclusionary radical feminist) like author JK Rowling and calling gender “a fact.”“Every human being in this room, every human being on Earth, had to pass through the legs of a woman to be on Earth,” Chappelle said.

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11.10.2021 / 23:39

Trans Netflix worker who spoke out on Dave Chappelle special suspended

who virally tweeted in opposition of a new Dave Chappelle comedy special on the service, has allegedly been suspended from work, according to the Verge.“The Closer,” the latest from Chapelle, 48, takes many jabs at the trans community and sees the comic make insinuating remarks supporting 29-year-old rapper DaBaby’s homophobic tirade, which went viral last summer.Senior Netflix software engineer Terra Field spoke out publicly following the Oct.

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11.10.2021 / 23:39

Netflix CEO won’t cancel Chappelle: Controversial stand-up is ‘artistic freedom’

controversial new stand-up special “The Closer,” Variety reported. Many critics have slammed the 48-year-old’s latest special and urged viewers to cancel him for his controversial remarks about transgender people.“Chappelle is one of the most popular stand-up comedians today, and we have a long-standing deal with him.

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