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Protest after trans, queer references erased from Stonewall website
The fallout continues in Greenwich Village after the U.S. Parks Service scrubbed references to transgender and queer people from the Stonewall Inn National Monument website. NBC New York’s Gaby Acevedo reports.
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All transgender references erased from Stonewall Monument's website
The trump administration is taking new action as part of its updated federal gender policies. The latest change has a direct effect on the Stonewall National Monument in Greenwich Village. NBC New York’s Checkey Beckford reports.
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‘Transgender' word erased from National Park Service website on Stonewall riot
References to transgender people were removed from a National Park Service website for the Stonewall National Monument, the New York City park and visitor center that commemorates a 1969 riot that became a pivotal moment for the LGBTQ+ rights movement.
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DOJ orders child safety authority to comply with Trump's ‘gender ideology' order
The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children said it would be removing all references to transgender people from its public materials.
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Families and doctors sue over Trump's order to halt funding for gender-affirming care
Seven families with transgender or nonbinary children filed a lawsuit Tuesday over President Donald Trump’s executive order to halt federal support for gender-affirming health care for transgender people under age 19. PFLAG, a national group for family of LGBTQ+ people; and GLMA, a doctors organization, are also plaintiffs in the court challenge in a Baltimore federal court. It comes one week after Trump signed...
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Government agencies scrub LGBTQ web pages and remove info about trans and intersex people
The State Department’s web page providing adoption information to LGBTQI+ prospective parents now addresses only “LGB” people.
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NY AG tells hospitals to continue transgender care after Trump's executive order
New York Attorney General Letitia James on Monday told hospitals that they would be violating state law if they stop offering gender-affirming care for people under age 19 in response to an executive order from President Donald Trump aimed at curtailing federal funding for such treatments. In a letter, James, a Democrat, told health care facilities that refusing to provide the...
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Advocates fight for youth gender affirming care amid President Trump executive orders
Multiple hospitals across the nation have paused gender-affirming care for minors because of an executive order signed by President Trump. The order restricts access and cuts federal funding for such care. NBC New York’s Brittany Miller spoke with groups concerned about the change.
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Hospitals pause gender-affirming care for minors after Trump order
Multiple hospitals across the nation have paused gender-affirming care for minors because of an executive order signed by President Donald Trump. News 4 reached out to both NYU Langone and Mount Sinai and both had no comment. News 4’s Brittany Miller reports from Kips Bay.
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Celebration and a mass wedding in Thailand as same-sex marriage law takes effect
The Southeast Asian nation is the third place in Asia to recognize same-sex marriage after Taiwan and Nepal.
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Trump demands an apology from bishop who asked him to ‘have mercy' on LGBTQ+ people and migrants
President Donald Trump is demanding an apology from the Episcopal bishop of Washington after she asked him to have mercy on the LGBTQ+ community and migrants in the United States illegally during a prayer service marking his inauguration. Trump and Vice President JD Vance attended Tuesday’s service at Washington National Cathedral. Trump criticized the bishop in an overnight post online....
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Trump's executive orders halt DEI programs, recognize only two biological sexes
President Donald Trump on Monday signed executive orders proclaiming that the U.S. government will recognize only two sexes, male and female, and ending “radical and wasteful” diversity, equity and inclusion programs inside federal agencies.
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Bernie Sanders' mitten maker on lessons she's learned since last Inauguration Day
Jen Ellis, the Vermont crafter behind Bernie Sanders’ mittens in the iconic photo taken at President Biden’s inauguration in Jan. 2021, shares how the viral moment has changed her life.
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Anita Bryant, a popular singer known for opposition to gay rights, dead at 84
Anita Bryant, a former Miss Oklahoma and popular singer who became known over the second half of her life for her outspoken opposition to gay rights, has died. She was 84.
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Pentagon agrees to settle landmark lawsuit with LGBTQ veterans over discharge status
The Pentagon said it will restore the discharge records of 35,000 veterans to “honorable,” ending a class action suit filed more than a year ago by veterans outed under the military’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policies.
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Viewers call out ‘Squid Game' for casting a cisgender actor as a trans character
The highly anticipated second season of Netflix’s South Korean dystopian thriller is getting criticized for not casting a transgender actor.
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Carter was the first president to move the needle, albeit slowly, on gay rights
Jimmy Carter, who died Sunday at age 100, stood out for his early support for pro-gay legislation and his embrace of LGBTQ advocates, historians say.
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Village People singer defends Trump's use of ‘Y.M.C.A.,' says song isn't a ‘gay anthem'
Victor Willis said the disco classic has “benefited greatly” from the president-elect’s use and threatened to sue news outlets that refer to it as a “gay anthem.”
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The war on woke: How a gay rights index once touted by Walmart and others became a conservative target
Corporations are pulling out of the Human Rights Campaign’s Corporate Equality Index just a few years after celebrating their contributions to LGBTQ+ inclusion.
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Speaker Mike Johnson says he supports banning transgender women from using women's bathrooms
Speaker Mike Johnson on Wednesday said that he supports restricting “single-sex facilities” in the Capitol, including restrooms, to “individuals of that biological sex”— which would effectively ban the first transgender congresswoman from using women’s bathrooms in the next Congress.