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(Article by Tim Graham republished from NewsBusters.org) On Thursday, PolitiFact took sides in the hallway Twitter battle between freshmen congresswomen Marie Newman and Marjorie Taylor Greene over the so-called “Equality Act” being debated.  “We checked, and the science is clear: Gender identity goes beyond male and female.” How can you trust any “fact check” from people who are this slippery with obvious facts? On Thursday, PolitiFact wasn’t subtle by illustrating their “che...

Lead Photo: Art by Stephany Torres for Remezcla Art by Stephany Torres for Remezcla Anti-trans violence weighs heavier in the air than humidity for trans Puerto Ricans. In the stretch of a single year, seven of their brothers and sisters have been killed. But just this month, Paolys Reyes became the first-ever trans woman to win one of the island’s beauty pageants, Miss Piel Canela Puerto Rico. Another trans woman, Joanna Cifredo, hopes to boost her community organizing and human rights work ...

Getty Images January 12, 2021, was a historic day not just for activist and politician Sarah McBride but also for the United States. McBride was sworn in as a Delaware senator, making her the countrys first openly transgender senator and the highest-ranking elected transgender official. While the momentous occasion stood in stark contrast to the very different kind of history that was made less than one week earlier, when then president Donald Trump incited an insurrection at the U.S. Capitol...

After Trump onslaught: What LGBTQ advocates want from Bidens first 100 days Jo Yurcaba © Provided by NBC News Devyn Box, 36, a social worker in Dallas, avoids going places in Texas where IDs have to be shown, because Box’s lists their sex assigned at birth rather than their nonbinary gender. Nineteen states across the U.S. allow nonbinary residents to use an “X” mark for gender on state IDs, like driver’s licenses, though Texas is not one of them. Box, who uses “they...

Biden’s ambitious LGBT agenda poises him to be nation’s most pro-equality president in history Emily Wax-Thibodeaux © Michael S. Williamson/The Washington Post Kelly Miller, left, and her wife, Lindsey Miller, embrace on June 26, 2015, outside the White House, which was lit in multicolored lights in recognition of the Supreme Courts decision to legalize same-sex marriage in all 50 states. Joe Biden became a fast friend of the LGBTQ community as vice president in 2012 by...

  Before this week, Ohio was one of two states that banned trans people from updating the gender marker listed on their birth certificates. But on Wednesday, a federal court struck down the discriminatory policy in a decisive ruling. In a strongly worded 28-page opinion, Judge Michael Watson of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio said the state’s four-year-old policy of refusing to correct transgender birth certificates resembled other “discrimination-based legislatio...

I am caught between two minds pondering on a proposal announced by the government in Bill 170, clause 22, which allows parents to leave the sex field blank on the birth registration when the gender of the child is unclear. Presented as an important change, what is unclear to me is whether the “undeclared” classification will be applied when, biologically, the sex of the child is in doubt, as in the case of intersex, or whether parents will be allowed to leave it empty even when the sex of t...

Protesters marched in New York City in June to decry Trump administration policies targeting transgender people.Demetrius Freeman/NYT Last month, Joe Biden did something no other president-elect had done in a victory speech — he specifically thanked the transgender community as part of what he called “the broadest and most diverse” coalition in history. It wasn’t the first time Biden mentioned the trans community, which has suffered its deadliest year ever. As the Democratic...