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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 “check” with a picture of left-wing activists holding up a sign reading “TRANS EQUALITY NOW.” Dani...

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 by winning the 17th annual Miss Queen International–the world’s biggest pageant for transgender ...

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 country's 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, the Wilmington native—who is often credited with the passage of legislation in Delaware banning...

After Trump 'onslaught': What LGBTQ advocates want from Biden's 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” and “them” pronouns, said a federal policy that would allow them and other individuals wh...

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 Court's 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 stating his support for same-sex marriage in a television interview even before his boss, Presiden...