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CHARLOTTE, N.C. (TND) — A teenager who plays the Pokémon Trading Card Game (TCG) at a high competitive level was reportedly disqualified from a tournament after he laughed when an official asked for his pronouns. Makani Tran was out $800, a couple of flights and missed school time after he offended a nonbinary Pokémon TCG judge, cutting his tournament run prematurely short "for a bizarre reason," according to Dexerto. The teenager says in a Twitlonger post that he never meant to offend anyone and was close to tears when he was disqualified. The Charlotte-based tournament was livestreaming the TCG matches...

Hours after Hershey's Canadian brand launched its HER for SHE campaign in conjunction with International Women's Day, social media activists began calling for a boycott of the iconic chocolate maker. The ad features trans woman and activist Fae Johnstone as one of the five faces of the campaign. Johnstone and five others will adorn five different wrappers during March.

A Twitter thread takes readers through the story of two parents in Famalicão, Portugal, who tried to keep their sons out of a Citizenship class that included “gender equality” lessons. The state went after them with a vengeance. It’s what many “educators” in America would probably like to do but, for the time being, haven’t yet tried. William Cacusso’s Twitter thread is here but it’s a little confusing. I’ll write it as a narrative instead. Two years ago, in the small town of Famalicão, two parents refused to let their boys, both the equivalent of straight A students in America,...

PIERRE, S.D. (AP) — The South Dakota House on Tuesday passed two bills aimed at transgender students, seeking to restrict which bathrooms K-12 trans children can use and which sports teams trans girls and college-age women can join.A ( proposal from Republican Gov. Kristi Noem) to ban transgender women and girls from playing in school sports leagues, including college athletes, that match their gender identity cleared its final hurdle in the Legislature with its passage in the House. Meanwhile, a proposal to ban transgender children from using school restrooms that match their gender identity was headed to the Senate.Advocates for...

A second female Penn swimmer has bravely come forward and described how her fellow teammates were in tears after ‘transgender’ swimmer Lia Thomas crushed them in last weekend’s swim meet. UPenn however is intimidating the female swimmers and telling them not to talk to the media about the Lia Thomas situation. Lia Thomas, a transgender UPenn swimmer who competed for two full seasons as a man before ‘transitioning’ into a female, shattered women’s records in Akron, Ohio last weekend. Thomas also finished one of the races 38 seconds ahead of the woman who finished in second place. Before and after...

Penn administration 'strongly advise' its swimmers to avoid talking to the media about the situation surrounding Thomas.. ... Even after a Wednesday team meeting where a source says Penn administration "strongly advised" its swimmers to avoid talking to the media about the situation surrounding transgender Penn swimmer Lia Thomas, a second female Penn swimmer has stepped forward to speak out ... The second female Penn swimmer to speak out, who was granted anonymity due to what is viewed as threats from the university, activists, and the political climate, wants people to know that Penn swimmers are "angry" over the lack...