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  • Hegseth Orders Navy to Strip Name of Gay Rights Icon Harvey Milk from Ship

    06/03/2025 12:07:45 PM PDT · by Drew68 · 64 replies
    Military.com ^ | 06/03/2025 | Konstantin Toropin
    Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered the Navy to take the rare step of renaming a ship, one that bears the name of a gay rights icon, documents and sources show. Military.com reviewed a memorandum from the Office of the Secretary of the Navy -- the official who holds the power to name Navy ships -- that showed the sea service had come up with rollout plans for the renaming of the oiler ship USNS Harvey Milk. A defense official confirmed that the Navy was making preparations to strip the ship of its name but noted that Navy Secretary John...
  • Democrat Lawmakers Compare Parent Groups Opposing Trans Bill to the ‘KKK’

    04/04/2025 10:45:50 AM PDT · by Sam77 · 20 replies
    The Daily Fetched ^ | 4 April 2025 | Jason Walsh
    Colorado Democrat lawmakers smeared parental rights groups opposing the radical new transgender bill by comparing them to “the KKK” during a committee hearing this week. Parents refusing to affirm their child’s new gender identity are being targeted by the “Kelly Loving Act” bill, which reads, “A court shall consider deadnaming, misgendering, or threatening to publish material related to an individual’s gender-affirming health-care services as types of coercive control.” “Coercive control” includes things like threatening to kill someone or forcing someone to commit crimes under Colorado law.
  • Trump administration axes more than $125M in LGBTQ health funding, upending research field

    04/04/2025 8:23:13 AM PDT · by fwdude · 62 replies
    NBC News ^ | April 3, 2025 | Benjamin Ryan and Aria Bendix
    The nation’s LGBTQ research field is collapsing. In recent weeks, academics who focus on improving the health of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer Americans have been subjected to waves of grant cancellations from the National Institutes of Health. More than 270 grants totaling at least $125 million of unspent funds have been eliminated, though the true sum is likely much greater, researchers told NBC News. Cancellation letters obtained by NBC News often vaguely state that the research in question no longer suits NIH priorities.
  • Women athletes don't compete vs. transgender in Team USA track event, giving default victory to trans athlete

    03/02/2025 11:06:37 AM PST · by kevcol · 59 replies
    Fox News ^ | March 1, 2025 | Jackson Thompson
    Transgender track and field athlete Sadie Schreiner took first place at the USA Track and Field (USATF) Open Masters Championships in the women's 400-meter dash in New York Saturday The other participants in the event, Anna Vidolova and Amaris Hiatt, have no recorded times and are listed as DNS, did not start. Schreiner is 21 years old, while Vidolova is just 17, and Hiatt is 16. . . After the 400-meter race, Schreiner competed in the women's 200-meter dash and also won first place. Schreiner defeated 14-year-old runner-up Zwange Edwards, 16-year-old third-place finisher Zariah Hargrove, 15-year-old Leah Walker and 18-year-old...