I'm going to start referring to all RepubliKKKans as the opposite of their gender.

yeah, genital inspections will go over well with the parents.

Research shows the only thing Republican lawmakers have to fear when it comes to inappropriate behavior in bathrooms is—wait for it—themselves.

At least three Republican legislators have been arrested for soliciting or performing sexual acts in a bathroom, according to NewNowNext.

But lawmakers in North Carolina, Arizona, Florida, and Texas have been pointing the finger at trans people. Those states continue relying on the claim that sexual predators will be able access to women's bathrooms if trans people are allowed to use facilities that match their gender identities instead of the sex assigned on their birth certificates.

Media Matters, a non-profit organization dedicated to monitoring media for conservative misinformation, found that no actual incidents involving predatory transgender people have occurred. What stories have circulated in the press have all turned out to be false and perpetuated by hate groups.

A Catholic high school in the Chicago area has reversed its decision not to hire a lacrosse coach just because she’s married to a woman after students rallied in support of her.

Amanda Kammes was offered a position as the head coach of the girls lacrosse team at Benet Academy, but the school rescinded the offer when she filled out paperwork and put her wife down as an emergency contact. “Likewise, as a Catholic school, we employ individuals whose lives manifest the essential teachings of the Church,” the school said in a statement, “in order to provide the education and faith formation of the young people entrusted to our care.”

Earlier this week, 40 alumni, parents, and students protested near the campus, shaming Benet Academy for refusing to hire someone because of their identity.

“We are ashamed of your narrow interpretation of Christian morality,” read a petition sent to administration that had over 3000 signatures.

“We write to express our dismay and anger at the news that Ben

In a national referendum on marriage equality held today, deemed “Marriage for All,” the citizens of Switzerland overwhelmingly voted in favor of allowing same-sex marriages to be legalized and equal to opposite-sex marriages.

The majority in all 26 cantons, or member states, of the Swiss Federation voted in favor of marriage equality. Final figures show that 64.1 percent of voters, or nearly two of every three, supported the measure. In December, Switzerland became just the 29th country on the planet to legalize marriage equality. The Swiss National Council – the lower house of the Alpine country’s legislature – approved a bill allowing same-sex couples to get married and allowing lesbian couples to have access to sperm banks.

The month before, the Council of States – the legislature’s upper house – passed the same bill with a 22-15 vote, the first time marriage equality legislation was adapted since it was first proposed by the country’s Green Party in 2013.

When the bill was pass

This week a Polish regional council has voted to remain an "LGBT-free zone" despite a warning from the European Union that it could lose funding.

Numerous local authorities in Poland have declared themselves free of so-called "LGBT ideology" as gay rights have become a high-profile and deeply divisive issue in the predominantly Catholic country under conservative nationalist rule.

This has set Poland on a collision course with the European Commission, which says the zones may violate EU law when it comes to non-discrimination on grounds of sexual orientation.

The southern Malopolska region said it had received a warning letter saying it could lose more than €2.5 billion of EU funds unless it revokes the declaration made in 2019 by mid-September. "We cannot simply deny what was said in 2019," said council leader Jan Duda, who is also the father of Poland's President Andrzej Duda.

"We need to meet and rewrite this declaration, as the one from 2019 has been misunderstood."

Some relig

Colorado Governor Jared Polis, the nation's first openly gay man to be elected governor, has tied the knot with his partner of 18 years Marlon Reis in a traditional Jewish ceremony attended by close family and friends.

The marriage between Polis, a Democrat, and first gentleman Reis, a writer and animal advocate, marks the first same-sex wedding of a sitting governor.

"The greatest lesson we have learned over the past 18 months is that life as we know it can change in an instant," Polis wrote in a Twitter post. "We are thankful for the opportunity to celebrate our life together as a married couple."

Polis and Reis both contracted COVID-19 last year and Reis was briefly hospitalized in December. The couple, who got engaged late last year, are parents to two children age 7 and 9, according to a statement from Polis' office.

A 2015 landmark ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court legalized same-sex marriage nationwide.

While LGBTQ people remain "severely" underrepresented, the number of op

The South Korean government is under fire for not protecting the country’s young lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people against widespread discrimination.

According to victims, teachers, mental health service providers, and international human rights and legal experts, South Korean LGBT members were ostracised and bullied in schools, suffered online abuse and, in some cases, physically harassed.

A new report by Human Rights Watch marks the latest international criticism of the administration of President Moon Jae-in, a former human rights lawyer, over what the US group described as “pervasive” discrimination against LGBT communities, as well as women and racial and ethnic minorities.

Ryan Thoreson, an LGBT researcher at HRW, urged Seoul to implement anti-discrimination laws.

“Without clear protections, many students suffer in silence at the expense of their education and wellbeing,” Thoreson said. He also warned that schools and mental health services were unprepared and inc

Cuba published a long-awaited draft of a new family code on Wednesday that would open the door to gay marriage if approved, in a move that LGBT rights activists applauded cautiously as they remained wary of whether it would actually be implemented.

The new code defines marriage as the "voluntary union of two people" without specifying gender, as opposed to the current definition as the "union of a man and woman."

The draft still needs to go to a grassroots debate, however, and will then be amended to take into account citizens' opinions before going to a referendum. Activists fear the commission charged with it could relent under pushback from religious groups and those who prefer traditional machismo culture.

They say the government should not have stipulated a referendum on what are fundamental human rights. The government says it wants to build rather than force acceptance of change.

In 2018 the government decided to withdraw an amendment to Cuba's new constitution that would ha

In the recent Netflix documentary “Pray Away,” former leaders of Exodus International, once America’s leading conversion therapy organization, express shame over perpetuating efforts to change people’s sexual orientation and gender identity.

The interdenominational Christian organization shuttered in 2013, with then-president Alan Chambers apologizing in a statement “for years of undue suffering and judgment at the hands of the organization and the church as a whole.”

One year earlier, in 2012, California became the first state to ban conversion therapy on minors. Nineteen more have followed suit, most recently Virginia, in 2020. Five additional states have partial bans on the practice, which has been associated with “severe psychological distress.”

LGBTQ adolescents subjected to efforts to change their sexual orientation or gender identity are more than twice as likely to attempt suicide, according to The Trevor Project, an LGBTQ youth suicide prevention and crisis intervention non

Nearly 1 in 10 LGBTQ people in the United States experienced workplace discrimination in the last year, and almost half faced employment bias at some point in their careers, according to a new survey.

The findings were published Tuesday in a report titled LGBT People’s Experiences of Workplace Discrimination and Harassment by the Williams Institute at the University of California, Los Angeles, School of Law. It found that 46 percent of LGBTQ workers reported receiving unfair treatment at some point in their careers because of their sexual orientation or gender identity — including being passed over for a job, harassed at work, denied a promotion or raise, excluded from company events, denied additional hours or fired. An estimated 9 percent reported being denied a job or laid off in the past 12 months because of their orientation or identity.

Researchers at the institute surveyed 935 lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer adults in May 2021, more than a year into a pandemic th

Lil Nas X is raising money for LGBTQ and human rights nonprofit organizations ahead of the arrival of his debut album, "Montero."

The rapper tweeted a link to a "baby registry" Tuesday to welcome the album, which debuts Sept. 17. The registry shows a list of songs that will appear on the album. Next to each of the 15 track names is the name of a grassroots nonprofit group with a button that allows users to donate directly to the organization.

A conservative member of Utah’s board of education who criticized the use of a gay pride flag in a social media post is under investigation.

The Utah State Board of Education said in a statement released Tuesday that Natalie Cline’s post does not represent the school board and that it is reviewing the post for potential violations.

Cline shared a photo on Facebook this week of a gay pride flag in a Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints seminary building with a message welcoming members of the LGBTQ community to the seminary.

Cline then wrote: “Time to make some phone calls. The world is too much with us.”

Cline told the Standard-Examiner that she is in favor of welcoming “all students” but said that the seminary message welcoming the LGBTQ community could exclude others.

Troy Williams, executive director of the group Equality Utah, condemned Cline’s comments and criticized her for an “ongoing obsession with LGBTQ youth.”

“She has been leading a one-woman crusade against our

Before the Taliban uprising in Afghanistan, life for gay man Abdul (his name has been changed) was already dangerous.

If he'd spoken about his sexuality to the wrong person then, Abdul could have been arrested and taken to court for his sexuality, under Afghan laws.

But since the Taliban seized control of major cities in Afghanistan last week, Abdul tells Radio 1 Newsbeat his sexuality being revealed would now have him "killed on the spot".

The Taliban are a military group who have taken control of the country, and are known to enforce extreme Islamic ideals.

Under the Taliban's interpretation of Sharia Law, homosexuality is strictly prohibited and punishable by death.

President Joe Biden is nominating a Vermont judge who played a critical role in paving the way for the legalization of same-sex marriage to become the first openly LGBT woman to serve on any federal circuit court.

The White House announced Thursday that Biden has tapped Beth Robinson, an associate justice on the Vermont Supreme Court since 2011, to serve on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit. The court's territory includes Connecticut, New York and Vermont.

In 1999, before she was appointed to the Vermont Supreme Court, Robinson helped argue the case that led to Vermont’s civil unions law, the first legal recognition in the country of same-sex relationships — a forerunner of gay marriage.

Robinson served as counsel to Vermont Governor Peter Shumlin, a Democrat, from 2010 to 2011. From 1993 to 2010, Robinson was a civil litigator in private practice at Langrock Sperry & Wool where she focused on employment law, workers’ compensation, contract disputes and family law.

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