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California could provide legal refuge to displaced transgender youth and their families under a proposal announced Thursday that joins a growing list of initiatives from the nation’s most populous state aimed at counterbalancing actions in Texas and other conservative places.

As a man wins the women’s NCAA championship, two fans disagree with one another. Wait for this line: “I’m not a vet but I know what a dog is.”

Lia Thomas, an NCAA athlete, appears to be quite tall in her photos, and her height is estimated to be around 6 feet 1 inch.

Sunday marked the end of the season for the NFL’s Atlanta Falcons and the beginning of a new chapter in the love story of team cheerleader Benjamin Ajani and his boyfriend, Dominic Williams, who surprised Ajani with a marriage proposal at the final game.

Would you pay $500 for a jar containing someone else’s flatulence? Hopefully you would not, but there are a lot of other people out there that would. In this article, I am going to share some things with you that are likely to make you cringe. But there is a very important reason why I am doing this. We tend to think of ourselves as the greatest nation that the world has ever seen, and we like to believe that everyone else should follow our example. But the truth is that we are a fallen nation that is in the...

A Florida school board member who's gotten death threats after chaperoning a field trip to an LGBTQ-friendly restaurant last week said her abuse is just one example of the abuse faced by school officials across the country.

The Supreme Court on Monday turned down an appeal from a Catholic hospital in California that was sued after refusing to perform a hysterectomy for a transgender man. The court's denial, issued without comment, sends the lawsuit back to state court for further proceedings against the hospital and avoids, for now, the issue of when claims of religious freedom can trump anti-discrimination laws. Justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, and Neil Gorsuch said the court should have taken the case. The dispute arose when Evan Minton arranged with Mercy San Juan Medical Center in Sacramento to schedule a hysterectomy, which he...

Is a lesbian transphobic if she does not want to have sex with trans women? Some lesbians say they are increasingly being pressured and coerced into accepting trans women as partners - then shunned and even threatened for speaking out. Several have spoken to the BBC, along with trans women who are concerned about the issue too. Jennie is a lesbian woman. She says she is only sexually attracted to women who are biologically female and have vaginas. She therefore only has sex and relationships with women who are biologically female. Jennie doesn't think this should be controversial, but not...

Former Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio) has fallen short in his bid to return to his old job as Cleveland’s mayor. Kucinich, who became the youngest mayor of a major U.S. city when he was first elected to the job in 1977, placed third on Tuesday in a seven-way primary to replace longtime Mayor Frank Jackson. Nonprofit executive Justin Bibb emerged as the first-place finisher in the primary, winning about 27 percent of the vote. Cleveland City Council President Kevin Kelley came in second, beating out Kucinich by just over 1,100 votes.

A stunning correlation was unearthed by Newsmax. According to Greg Kelly of Newsmax, anti-white leftist General Mark Milley played football with transgender Health Secretary Dr. Rachel Levine in high school. On what others have called this one of the weirdest links in American history, Newsmax host Greg Kelly reported on his show Greg Kelly Reports that General Mark Milley, who “wants to understand white rage,” played football in high school with transgender Health Secretary Dr. Rachel Levine. Both attended Belmont Hill High School in Massachusetts. Milley graduated in 1976, whereas Levine, who was originally known as Richard, graduated in 1975....

Gwen Berry is facing new scrutiny after Internet sleuths unearthed a slew of controversial tweets from the Olympian — including some a decade old in which the athlete joked about rape. “I’m about to rape my lunch,” she said in one tweet from October 2012. [Shout out] to all the females that’s gon get drunk, get recked by 4 dudes, then cry rape this weekend,” she added in another from the same year. SNIP In others postings, Berry mocked and made disparaging comments about Asians, Mexican and white people. “Mexicans just don’t care about ppl,” she said in Nov. 2012.

NEW YORK - Jessica Stern, soon to become the State Department’s special diplomatic envoy for LGBTQ rights, sees a mix of promising news and worrisome developments almost everywhere she looks, both at home and abroad. In the United States, Stern’s admiration for President Joe Biden’s moves supporting LGBTQ rights is offset by her dismay at other developments. These include persisting violence against transgender women of color and a wave of legislation in Republican-governed states seeking to limit sports participation and medical options for trans youth. “I don’t think there’s a country or region that’s all good or all bad,” she...

In 2007, six-year-old Jazz Jennings went on national television to tell Barbara Walters the same thing she’d been telling her parents, siblings and anyone else who would listen: She was, despite her birth certificate’s insistence otherwise, a girl. Shy and sweet, Jennings answered Walters’ probing questions with the clarity and patience of someone used to explaining herself over and over again. “She was so charismatic, so charming and so clearly herself,” Laverne Cox says of first seeing that “20/20” interview. “Her humanity was so on display that you couldn’t deny she had the right to be who she was.” It...

A federal judge ruled Wednesday that students of the opposite biological sex must be allowed to share shower spaces and dorms at a Christian college in Missouri. Judge Roseann Ketchmark of the District Court of Western Missouri ruled against the College of the Ozarks, a Christian college which had sued President Joe Biden’s administration over its transgender discrimination policies, lawyers representing the school said Wednesday evening. The college had challenged Biden over his Jan. 20 executive order, which prevented schools from denying children access to bathrooms of their choosing. “Women shouldn’t be forced to share private spaces, including showers and...

Demi Lovato is non-binary and is changing their pronouns from she/her to they/them, the singer has told fans. Non-binary people don't identify as male or female, and tend not to conform to gender norms of either. "Today is a day I'm so happy to share more of my life with you all," Demi, who's 28, wrote on Twitter. "I am proud to let you know that I identify as non-binary & will officially be changing my pronouns to they/them moving forward." Demi said they came to understand their gender identity after spending time doing "healing and self-reflective work" over the...

Caitlyn Jenner may be ambivalent about Donald Trump, but is decisive when it comes to his successor. “Biden, I don’t think I’ve agreed with on anything.....since he’s been in there, he hasnt done anything for the American worker, maybe others. So, it is a 180-degree turn in our country, and it scares me.” Jenner endorsed Trump in 2016, but later disavowed her support after his ban on transgenders serving in the military.....in an op-ed in The Washington Post she accused Trump of showing “no regard for an already marginalized and struggling community.” “What I liked about Donald Trump is, he...

Many like to point out the evil that is going on in our streets, in our boardrooms and in the halls of power in Washington, but often some of the most horrific crimes that are happening in our society are taking place in our scientific laboratories. For years, the U.S. government funded the use of “fresh” aborted babies in experiments that created bizarre human-mouse hybrids for “scientific research” purposes. And now we are learning that U.S. scientists have created human-monkey hybrid embryos for the first time ever. According to NPR, these embryos were created in order “to find new ways...

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio's wife Chirlane McCray is calling for unarmed citizens "to peacefully intervene to prevent violent crimes by using the 'five D' strategy. The five Ds are Distract, Delegate, Document, Delay, and Direct." "Say you see someone being assaulted by a gang of thugs," McCray said. "The first thing you should do is distract the attackers by making yourself an alternate target. You could shout 'hey, stop hurting that person.' The thugs will probably refocus on you, giving the original victim an opportunity to escape. You could then delegate the least aggressive of the assailants...

A white, male University of New Hampshire chemistry professor has resigned after being accused of posing as a female immigrant of color on Twitter to make racist and sexist comments.The university, which has not named the professor and described the person only as a faculty member, confirmed the resignation Friday after a four-month investigation.Toby SantaMaria, a graduate student studying plant biology at Michigan State who identifies with the gender-neutral term Latinx and was attacked online by followers of the Twitter account, welcomed the professor’s resignation.“Pretending to be a woman on the internet explicitly to bully, shame, harass, and create toxic...

MADRID - Victòria Martínez continues to sign official documents with the name that she, her partner and their two daughters ditched four years ago. Barring any surprises, she expects the Spanish government to recognize her as Victòria by May, closing a patience-wearing chapter familiar to transgender people around the world. Changing her legal identity at a civil registry office in Barcelona will allow Martínez to update her passport and driver’s license and to carry a health card that correctly states she is a woman. But the process, which the pandemic prolonged, has been, in her words, “humiliating” — requiring a...