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In California, of the historic 30 LGBTQ+ legislative candidates who ran in the March 5 primary, more than half are moving on to the fall ballot, The Bay Area Reporter noted. Based on the still unofficialtext/html2024-03-28T20:03:07-00:00https://www.windycitytimes.comLambda Legal Launches "Speak OUT" awareness campaign uplifting trans, nonbinary voices
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(NEW YORK, NY — March 28, 2024) In advance of Transgender Day of Visibility, Lambda Legal, the nation's oldest and largest legal nonprofit working to achieve full equal rights for LGBTQ people and everyone living withtext/html2024-03-27T22:02:49-00:00https://www.windycitytimes.comNex Benedict's autopsy report released
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The full autopsy report for Nex Benedict (he/they) a 16-year-old transgender and Indigenous student from Oklahoma's Owasso High School who died in February a day after a school fight has been released. The Oklahoma Office of the Chietext/html2024-03-26T20:42:07-00:00https://www.windycitytimes.comLu CalzadaAn interstate trans healthcare crisis: Illinois prepares for influx of people seeking gender-affirming care
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With hard-won rights, such as access to hormone replacement therapy or permission to use one's chosen pronouns in school, breaking down in states across the country, trans residents of all ages are left with a choice:text/html2024-03-25T01:05:45-00:00https://www.windycitytimes.comWyoming is latest state to ban gender-affirming care for minors
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On March 22, Wyoming became the latest state to prohibit gender-affirming care for minors, The Hill noted. In doing so, it joined 23 other states that passed laws restricting or banning the treatment. Legislators in bothtext/html2024-03-22T23:33:21-00:00https://www.windycitytimes.comNo charges filed in Nex Benedict fight; campaigns call for Walters' removal
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In Oklahoma, Tulsa County District Attorney Stephen Kunzweiler announced that no charges will be filed in connection with the fight that happened the day before transgender, nonbinary high school student Nex Benedict died by suicide, NBCtext/html2024-03-22T18:07:01-00:00https://www.windycitytimes.comJerry NunnJP Karliak morphs into non-binary character for Disney+'s X-Men '97
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series X-Men '97, a revival of the popular X-men: The Animated Series that's both continuing the ongoing mutant storyline and breaking new ground along the way. The character of Morph now looks more like the comictext/html2024-03-22T01:41:53-00:00https://www.windycitytimes.comAndrew Davis NATIONAL Va. marriage bill, AARP, online counseling, Idaho items, late activist
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Republican Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin signed bills protecting same-sex marriages at a state level, surprising some, WRIC reported. The bills passed out of both chambers along mostly party lines will require clerkstext/html2024-03-16T21:38:42-00:00https://www.windycitytimes.comAlmost 8% of U.S. residents identify as LGBTQ+
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The proportion of U.S. adults identifying as LGBTQ+ continues to increase. LGBTQ+ identification in the U.S. continues to grow, with 7.6% of U.S. adults now identifying as LGBTQ+, according to the newest Gallup poll results thattext/html2024-03-15T13:56:22-00:00https://www.windycitytimes.comAndrew Davis WORLD Leaked messages, Panama action, author dies at 32, Japan court, out athletes
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Hundreds of messages from an internal chat board for an international group of transgender health professionals were leaked in a report and framed as revealing serious health risks associated with gender-affirming care, including cancer, according totext/html2024-03-15T13:53:28-00:00https://www.windycitytimes.comAndrew DavisNATIONAL Missouri measure, HIV/AIDS Awareness Day, judge, Texas schools
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In Missouri, a newly proposed law could charge teachers and counselors with a felony and require them to register as sex offenders if they're found guilty of supporting transgender students who are socially transitioning, CNN noted.text/html2024-03-15T13:45:56-00:00https://www.windycitytimes.comCollege athletes sue NCAA over transgender policies
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Former Kentucky swimmer Riley Gaines was among a group of college athletes who filed a lawsuit against the NCAA on March 14, accusing it of violating their Title IX rights by allowing trans swimmer Lia Thomastext/html2024-03-15T13:39:15-00:00https://www.windycitytimes.comAndrew Davis SHOWBIZ Lady Gaga, 'P-Valley,' Wendy Williams, Luke Evans, 'Queer Eye,' 'Transition'
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Lady Gaga came to the defense of Dylan Mulvaney after a post with the trans influencer/activist for International Women's Day received hateful responses, People Magazine noted. On Instagram, Gaga stated, "It's appalling to me that atext/html2024-03-14T23:18:06-00:00https://www.windycitytimes.comUK health service to stop routinely prescribing puberty blockers to minors
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NHS (National Health Service) England confirmed that children will no longer routinely be prescribed puberty blockers at gender-identity clinics, the BBC reported. The decision came after a review found there was "not enough evidence" that theytext/html2024-03-14T23:16:10-00:00https://www.windycitytimes.comLGBTQ+ people attacked by mobs in Greece
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Just weeks after a landmark law granted same-sex couples in Greece the right to marry, nearly 200 people dressed in black chased a transgender couple through the town square in Thessaloniki, the country's "second city" andtext/html2024-03-14T20:03:14-00:00https://www.windycitytimes.comHoward Brown experts discuss advocacy and allyship for Chicago's trans community
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Howard Brown Health's Trans & Gender Diverse People's Rights & Patient Care panel convened March 12 to discuss both resources for and opportunities to provide allyship to the city's trans and gender diverse communities. The event hostext/html2024-03-13T22:55:30-00:00https://www.windycitytimes.comUPDATE: Nex Benedict's death ruled a suicide; family responds
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A medical examiner's report concluded that the cause of death of Oklahoma student Nex Benedict (he/they) was suicide, media reports confirmed. Benedict—a 16-year-old transgender student—died Feb. 8, a day aftertext/html2024-03-11T22:28:16-00:00https://www.windycitytimes.comMatt Simonette"X" gender marker now available on Illinois driver's licenses and state ID cards
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After several years of preparation, the Illinois Secretary of State's office is has been making the X gender designation available for non-binary residents and others not utilizing the M or F designations, since the beginning oftext/html2024-03-11T20:03:54-00:00https://www.windycitytimes.comLu CalzadaChicagoan continues fight against alleged transphobia at Orangetheory
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After allegedly dealing with transphobia at a Chicago Orangetheory beginning in 2018, Jes Favers du Shine is still holding out hope for the organization to take measures addressing those issues.� In 2020, Windy City Times reportedtext/html2024-03-09T16:49:16-00:00https://www.windycitytimes.comTrans golfer banned from competing
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Transgender golfer Hailey Davidson spoke out on Instagram after the NXXT Women's Pro Tour suddenly announced on March 8 (International Women's Day) that participants must be "a biological female at birth" in order to compete banning Dtext/html2024-03-08T14:46:22-00:00https://www.windycitytimes.comAndrew DavisNATIONAL Altercation, mpox research, Univ. of Fla., George Santos, tech battle
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Video footage uploaded to Facebook showed an altercation between a state trooper and two prominent Philadelphia LGBTQ+ leaders, the Washington Blade reported, republishing an article from Philadelphia Gay News. Celenatext/html2024-03-02T14:10:00-00:00https://www.windycitytimes.comFederal investigation initiated in Nex Benedict case
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The U.S. Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights has started an investigation into the Oklahoma school district where Nex Benedict, a transgender 16-year-old sophomore, went to school and was bullied before his death, The Advocatetext/html2024-03-01T21:59:06-00:00https://www.windycitytimes.comCourt blocks Texas attorney general's demand for PFLAG data
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From a press release: AUSTIN, Texas—Travis County District Court Judge Maria Cantú Hexel on March 1 blocked the latest effort by the Texas Attorney General's Office to persecute Texas families with transgender youth, temporarily haltintext/html2024-03-01T11:06:37-00:00https://www.windycitytimes.comWORLD Canadian politics, Australian murders, Finnish study, 'Anatomy'
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Canadian conservatives are divided over an anti-trans policy that Alberta Premier Danielle Smith handed down in her province, The Guardian reported. The policy includes a ban on hormonal treatment, pubertytext/html2024-03-01T10:47:45-00:00https://www.windycitytimes.comAppeals court allows Ind. ban on gender-affirming care for minors
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On Feb. 27, a federal appeals court in Chicago allowed Indiana's ban on gender-affirming care to go into effect, removing a temporary injunction that U.S. District Court Judge James Patrick Hanlon issued last year, ABC Newstext/html2024-02-28T20:51:20-00:00https://www.windycitytimes.comActivists and others urge removal of Oklahoma schools superintendent after Nex Benedict death
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TULSA, OKLAHOMA—Today more than 350 national, state, and local organizations advocating for equality across the U.S., alongside notable public figures, issued an open letter to Oklahoma legislative leadership urging justicetext/html2024-02-28T20:35:18-00:00https://www.windycitytimes.comAPA adopts policy supporting transgender, gender diverse and non-binary individuals
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From a press release: WASHINGTON—The American Psychological Association (APA) has adopted a landmark policy affirming evidence-based care for transgender, gender diverse and nonbinary children, adolescents and adults, noting that recenttext/html2024-02-24T19:50:02-00:00https://www.windycitytimes.com911 calls, videos show cascade of failures in Nex Benedict's death, GLAAD responds
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"It is haunting to hear Nex Benedict, in their own words, describe how school and state leaders failed, at every level of leadership, to keep them safe from bullying and harm. Less than 24 hours later,text/html2024-02-24T14:21:46-00:00https://www.windycitytimes.comFederal jury finds man guilty of killing trans woman in landmark case
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In a groundbreaking case, a federal jury in Columbia, South Carolina found Daqua Lameek Ritter guilty of killing transgender woman Dime Doe after deliberating for almost four hours, The State reported. It is the first timetext/html2024-02-23T13:28:55-00:00https://www.windycitytimes.comAndrew Davis WORLD Caribbean ruling, Pussy Riot, Russian raid, Canadian warning, anti-trans bar
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The top court in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines dismissed a challenge to colonial-era anti-gay laws, Reuters reported. Javin Johnson and Sean Macleish—two gay men who had pushed to decriminalizetext/html2024-02-23T13:04:13-00:00https://www.windycitytimes.comAndrew Davis NATIONAL Chuck Schumer, anti-marriage bill, drag event back on, military doctor
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U.S. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) announced his support for the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) and, as a result, several LGBTQ+-advocacy organizations dropped their opposition to it, The Hilltext/html2024-02-21T17:21:44-00:00https://www.windycitytimes.comOklahoma non-binary student dies after being assaulted
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Officials acknowledged there are unresolved questions about a 16-year-old non-binary Oklahoma student who died one day after a fight in a high school bathroom, NBC News noted. Chuck Hoskin Jr., principal chief of the Cherokee Nation,text/html2024-02-19T23:40:32-00:00https://www.windycitytimes.comLu CalzadaCenter on Halsted to host trans youth & family summit
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Center on Halsted, 3656 N. Halsted St., has announced that its Trans Youth & Family Summit 2024 will take place March 16. This year marks the sixth annual event, which partners between Youth Services' Pride Youthtext/html2024-02-16T14:25:48-00:00https://www.windycitytimes.comAndrew Davis WORLD South Africa murder, lesbian couple, Brianna Ghey, Eurovision
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In South Africa, LGBTQ+-rights groups condemned the brutal murder of Diego Jacobs, a queer man in Cape Town, The Washington Blade reported. Reports indicate Jacobs, 21, was brutally murdered (reportedly by a former neighbor) on Feb.text/html2024-02-16T14:21:51-00:00https://www.windycitytimes.comAndrew Davis NATIONAL Utah board member, Baths founder dies, Fla. protests, DoJ equity plan
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Utah's Republican governor and lieutenant governor urged the State Board of Education to take action against a conservative board member whose social-media post questioning the gender of a high school basketball player incited threats against thetext/html2024-02-14T18:55:57-00:00https://www.windycitytimes.comHuman Rights Campaign report releases new data on experiences of Black queer youth
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WASHINGTON — Today, the Human Rights Campaign Foundation (HRC), the educational arm of the nation's largest lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ+) civil rights organization, released a report intext/html2024-02-13T19:15:11-00:00https://www.windycitytimes.comCol. Jennifer Pritzker comments on military museum move
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Local transgender philanthropist Col. Jennifer Pritzker commented to Windy City Times about the impending move of the Pritzker Military Museum & Library (PMML), which she founded in 2003, to Wisconsin. "At the end of the day,text/html2024-02-12T23:26:21-00:00https://www.windycitytimes.comAndrew Davis THEATER Dot-Marie Jones talks Goodman production, 'Glee,' 'Bros'
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Running through Feb. 18 at the the Goodman Theatre, the production Highway Patrol works with a script conceived entirely from Emmy-winning actor Dana Delany's (TV's China Beach) digital archive of hundreds of tweets and direct messagestext/html2024-02-12T23:09:51-00:00https://www.windycitytimes.comCoalition of LGBTQ+ advocates, health care providers release Project RAINBOW report
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. — A coalition of more than two dozen LGBTQ+ advocate organizations and health care providers are releasing a new report aimed at addressing the challenges and discrimination thattext/html2024-02-12T18:56:46-00:00https://www.windycitytimes.comRepublicans file bill to ban trans women from U.S. Olympic teams
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Republicans in both houses of Congress have launched another effort to ban transgender women and girls from female sports teams and this time, they are attempting to ban trans women from competing on U.S. Olympic teams aheadtext/html2024-02-12T01:02:37-00:00https://www.windycitytimes.comLu CalzadaNew US Trans Survey highlights importance of gender-affirming care and societal acceptance
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After surveying 92,329 people in 2022, the early insights gleaned from the 2022 U.S. Trans Survey (USTS) have been released—and they highlight just how much impact gender-affirming care can have. The USTS, which was last completedtext/html2024-02-09T22:02:42-00:00https://www.windycitytimes.comJerry NunnQuantum Leap reboot springs into LGBTQ+ representation
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Through the magic of television, Quantum Leap is once again jumping into the past to bounce back into the future and in a recent episode, "The Family Trasure," non-binary artist and performer Wilder Yuri and writer Shakinatext/html2024-02-09T14:00:58-00:00https://www.windycitytimes.comAndrew Davis NATIONAL Texas court, police chief, Gentili memorial, Philly controversy
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The Texas Supreme Court heard oral arguments challenging Senate Bill 14, the ban on gender-affirming care that went into effect last September, KERA reported. SB 14 blocks trans minors from accessing gender-affirming medical care, such astext/html2024-02-07T17:44:08-00:00https://www.windycitytimes.comNational Black Justice Coalition commemorates National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day
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WASHINGTON Today, Feb. 7, marks National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day (NBHAAD). In commemoration, Dr. David J. Johns, CEO of the National Black Justice Coalition (NBJC), a leading Black LGBTQ+/same-gendertext/html2024-02-07T02:47:34-00:00https://www.windycitytimes.comGLAAD remembers Cecilia Gentili, transgender Latina, actress, activist, health care activist, journalist
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(New York, NY - February 6, 2024) GLAAD, the world's largest LGBTQ media advocacy organization, is responding to the death of transgender actress and advocate Cecilia Gentili and elevating voices of transgender and political leaders honoringtext/html2024-02-05T00:18:49-00:00https://www.windycitytimes.comIowa governor introduces bill to out trans people on official documents
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As states around Illinois continue to introduce anti-LGBTQ bills and in some cases, pass anti-LGBTQ resolutions into law Iowa recently added one more blow for Midwestern LGBTQ+ Americans. Governor Kim Reynolds introduced HB 649 Feb. 1, and ittext/html2024-02-02T15:23:26-00:00https://www.windycitytimes.comAndrew Davis NATIONAL Marriage news, fighting fentanyl, anti-LGBTQ+ crimes, Grindr
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The Virginia House of Delegates passed a bill that would affirm marriage equality in the state, The Washington Blade noted. House Bill 174, introduced by state Del. Rozia Henson (D-Prince William County), passed in the Democratic-controlledtext/html2024-01-30T16:30:42-00:00https://www.windycitytimes.comHRC State Equality Index: Anti-LGBTQ+ 2023 state legislative season "most destructive"
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WASHINGTON—Today, the Human Rights Campaign Foundation (HRC), the education arm of the nation's largest Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer (LGBTQ+) civil rights organization, in partnership with the Equality Federatiotext/html2024-01-30T13:14:17-00:00https://www.windycitytimes.comLu CalzadaLooking back at Chicago LGBTQ+ community's stand against Anheuser-Busch
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As conservatives across the country boycotted Anheuser-Busch products for Bud Light's partnership with trans woman Dylan Mulvaney in 2023, LGBTQ+ bars in Chicago removed their products for a different reason. Following the deeply negative response totext/html2024-01-24T23:15:27-00:00https://www.windycitytimes.comExtreme anti-trans legislation to be law in Ohio after GOP supermajority overrides governor's veto
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WASHINGTON — The GOP-controlled Ohio Senate voted today to complete the legislature's override of Republican Gov. Mike DeWine's veto of dangerous anti-trans legislation. The bill bans transgender athletes from participating