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“I wish people understood that we just want to be able to live our lives. We have as much right to live here as anyone else does.”
The proposed rules would allow high schools and colleges to bar trans athletes from competitive sports in order to preserve “fairness.”
The Republican lawmaker who introduced the bill said it would be enforced via student-athletes’ physical exams.
“We received a possible active shooter threat and to protect trans life, which is our ultimate goal, we will be canceling,” an organizer said.
“There aren’t any flowers within the images I make, but the flowers are the Black transmasculine people themselves,” Texas Isaiah said of his project, Flowers at Your Feet.
Kentucky is the 12th state to ban gender-affirming care, and the ACLU plans to challenge the law in court.
The weeklong Trans Rights Readathon will raise funds for trans rights organizations.
Students said changing the admissions policy would align with the college’s historic mission of providing a safe educational environment to people who are marginalized because of their gender.
The ban is set to go into effect April 1 this year, a few months ahead of Pride festivities, trans advocates have noted.
"Y'all really going crazy over me wearing a dress as a joke back in school for a theatre project?" state Rep. Nate Schatzline said.
Former Young Life participants and staffers told BuzzFeed News that in spite of its message of friendship and belonging, the organization continues to reject its queer members when they come out.
“Brianna was strong, fearless, and one of a kind,” her family said in a statement.
The proposed rules would allow high schools and colleges to bar trans athletes from competitive sports in order to preserve “fairness.”
“We received a possible active shooter threat and to protect trans life, which is our ultimate goal, we will be canceling,” an organizer said.
"Y'all really going crazy over me wearing a dress as a joke back in school for a theatre project?" state Rep. Nate Schatzline said.
The pro surfer whose arm was famously bitten off in a shark attack said she was concerned about the new policy that allows trans women in surfing events.
Their letter accused recent news stories of using “an eerily familiar mix of pseudoscience and euphemistic, charged language” that vilifies being trans.
“We can buy cigarettes, we can buy a gun, we can buy alcohol, but we’re still not old enough to have a private agreement with our medical provider on what we want to do with our own body?”
“I wish people understood that we just want to be able to live our lives. We have as much right to live here as anyone else does.”
“There aren’t any flowers within the images I make, but the flowers are the Black transmasculine people themselves,” Texas Isaiah said of his project, Flowers at Your Feet.