Transgender and LGBTQ+ rights

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Transgender athletes

The House voted on Tuesday to pass a Republican-led bill that would ban transgender athletes from women's and girls' sports at federally funded schools and educational institutions. The bill would prohibit transgender women and girls from playing on sports teams consistent with their gender identity. It seeks to amend federal law to require that "sex shall be recognized based solely on a person’s reproductive biology and genetics at birth," for the purpose of determining compliance with Title IX in athletics, according to the legislative text. The measure is expected to next be taken up by the GOP-controlled Senate. 

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New York roller derby league loses bid to temporarily block ban on trans athletes

NEW YORK (AP) — A New York roller derby league has lost its bid to temporarily block a local ban on transgender female athletes.

https://apnews.com/article/new-york-transgender-sports-nassau-roller-derby-f9556237da30d81d1ed3a8d2b14bfc3b?

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Iowa’s Capitol fills with protesters as lawmakers consider bill removing gender identity protection

Amid a heavy police presence and hundreds of vocal protesters, Iowa lawmakers on Thursday considered an unprecedented bill that would strip the state civil rights code of protections based on gender identity, a move opponents say could expose transgender people to discrimination in numerous areas of life. Read More.

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Iowa Becomes the First State to Repeal Civil Rights Protections for Trans People

GOP lawmakers said that they couldn’t enforce bathroom bans with the civil rights protections on the books.

https://theintercept.com/2025/03/01/iowa-trans-civil-rights/?

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Commentary

Democrats Still Don’t Get It on Transgenderism

Peter Parisi | December 23, 2024

 

 

Peter Parisi is a writer and editor for The Daily Signal.

With apologies to Shakespeare’s Queen Gertrude in “Hamlet”: The congressman doth protest too much, methinks.

Rep. Seth Moulton is none too happy about coming under fire from his fellow Massachusetts Democrats for his candid postelection assessment of the electoral problems his party faces because of its unbending embrace of identity politics, especially the transgender agenda.

Moulton suggested in an interview with The New York Times shortly after the Nov. 5 elections—which saw Republicans win the presidency and both houses of Congress—that Democrats would benefit from a course correction on transgender issues.

“Democrats spend way too much time trying not to offend anyone, rather than being brutally honest about the challenges many Americans face,” he said. “I have two little girls. I don’t want them getting run over on a playing field by a male or formerly male athlete, but as a Democrat, I’m supposed to be afraid to say that.”

 

Rep. Seth Moulton, D-Mass., speaks at a Veterans Day event in Marblehead, Mass., on Nov. 11, a few days after making remarks critical of Democrats’ support of transgenderism, and being criticized for doing so. (Danielle Parhizkaran/The Boston Globe via Getty Images)

Not wanting his young daughters having their rights trampled by delusional faux females is the totally understandable response of a protective parent. But Moulton’s remarks drew immediate fire from many of his fellow Bay State Democrats, including the mayor of Salem, Massachusetts, where he lives.

In today’s political equivalent of the Salem witch trials, the city’s Democratic Committee even vowed to recruit someone to challenge him for his 6^th Congressional District seat in a party primary in 2026.

In an MSNBC interview, the five-term lawmaker—who had just won a sixth term, unopposed—contended that the backlash only served to prove his point. He subsequently insisted that Democrats were “out of touch” on transgender issues.

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Newsom calls trans athletes in sports "unfair" in podcast with Charlie Kirk

California Gov. Gavin Newsom on his new podcast, "This is Gavin Newsom," said that transgender athletes competing in girls' and women's sports was "deeply unfair."

https://www.axios.com/2025/03/06/gavin-newsom-charlie-kirk-podcast-trans-sports?

ps:I agree 100%

Transgender athletes

Democratic California Gov. Gavin Newsom said transgender athletes playing in women's sports is "deeply unfair" in a break from most Democrats' position on the topic. Newsom's comments come after President Trump signed an executive order last month banning transgender women from competing in women's sports, delivering on a political issue central to his 2024 campaign. The California governor spoke about the issue on a podcast episode with conservative activist Charlie Kirk. Notably, Newsom is eyeing a potential 2028 presidential bid, having watched Republicans wield the issue against Democrats last cycle.

 

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Kentucky GOP lawmakers vote to protect conversion therapy

Kentucky’s Republican lawmakers have passed a measure to protect conversion therapy for LGBTQ+ youths as part of a bill that also would outlaw the use of Medicaid funds to pay for gender-affirming health care for transgender Kentucky residents. Read More.

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Denmark and Finland urge caution for US-bound transgender people

Travel advice updated amid reports of ordeals at US border after Trump said country would only recognise two genders

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/mar/21/denmark-and-finland-urge-caution-for-us-bound-transgender-people?

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Bianchi: USA Today columnist proves the left’s willful blindness on transgender sports is backfiring

As someone who has spent all of my adult life as a registered Democrat identifying with the traditional values of social liberalism — equality, fairness, compassion for marginalized groups, etc. — I say what I am about to say with both conviction and regret:

https://www.orlandosentinel.com/2025/06/10/transgender-sports-simone-biles-riley-gaines-usa-today-columnist-donald-trump-joe-biden-mike-bianchi-commentary/?

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Bianchi: Transgender girl says she always feels ‘shocked at the people who hate me’

Thanks to the many readers on both sides of the issue for responding to a column I wrote earlier this week on the hot-button issue of transgender people participating in girls and women’s sports. My stance has been pretty consistent: While supporting transgender rights and compassion, I firmly believe that biological males retain physical advantages after puberty, making their participation in women’s sports unfair and undermining competitive integrity.

https://www.orlandosentinel.com/2025/06/11/transgender-sports-simone-biles-riley-gaines-donald-trump-ron-desantis-mike-bianchi-commentary/?

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Trans people in Georgia prisons are being forced to detransition. Now they’re suing.

A group of incarcerated transgender women and men have sued Georgia corrections officials, challenging a new law that prevents them from receiving gender-affirming medical care.

https://floridaphoenix.com/2025/08/13/trans-people-in-georgia-prisons-are-being-forced-to-detransition-now-theyre-suing/?

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Conversion therapy for LGBTQ+ people, long discredited, could make a comeback

Week after week, a teenage Brandon Long sat through counseling sessions that he said framed his identity as a failure.

https://floridaphoenix.com/2025/08/15/conversion-therapy-for-lgbtq-people-long-discredited-could-make-a-comeback/?

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These 59 Companies Fought the Anti-Trans Bathroom Bill in 2016. In 2025, They’re Silent.

In the weeks after North Carolina’s Republican-led state legislature passed its infamous 2016 “bathroom bill” — banning transgender people from using the bathroom aligned with their gender — major companies and their CEOs tripped over themselves to denounce it. 

https://theintercept.com/2025/09/11/transgender-bathroom-bill-texas-north-carolina/?