Nazi Flags In and Pride Flags Out in Utah (and more LGBTQ news)

Pride Flags Out and Nazi Flags In In Utah

Nazi flags can fly in Utah schools, but not pride flags, GOP lawmaker says
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Renée Richards Shares Her Position on Gender Policy in Tennis

Activists protested outside of the Children’s Hospital of LA last Thursday against the hospital’s decision to pause gender affirming care for new patients

Transgender military service bans harm military cohesion

A member of the EEOC Commission who was abruptly dismissed by Trump says she believes her firing and the move to reshape the panel that protects workers from discrimination is part of an “agenda to erase the existence of trans people.”

Coupled with the loss of federal funding, a decline in corporate giving to LGBTQ organizations could have devastating impacts on the communities they serve, potentially leading to cutbacks in programs and services.

The Silicon Valley representative and LGBTQ+ ally Ro Khanna says the Democratic party needs to stand strongly behind the trans rights and fight back.

Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention and Human Security: Red Flag Alert for the Anti-Trans Agenda of the Trump Administration in the United States.

To the American people, we ask you to reaffirm your commitment to individual rights and to the project of equality under the law that is written into the US Constitution and that has animated the best nature of the USA since its founding.

Reject efforts to desensitize you to violence against other Americans, whether that violence is legal, social, or physical. To protect trans people and the Constitution, and to prevent the hardening of a genocidal process that will eventually impact every single American, it is critical that you loudly resist the normalization of anti-trans talking points and make your voice heard against efforts to marginalize and erase the trans community.

This can mean many things – writing a letter to your representatives, organizing your community to flood your representatives with phone calls, or supporting and engaging with organizations that protect LGBTQ+ rights. Talking to family and friends is also important. Autocratic states need to control language or they will fall. Keep talking.

Victories

Federal judge pauses President Trump’s order restricting gender-affirming care for trans youth

Saturday Night Live reportedly cut transphobic joke from Dave Chappelle in 2022

Manalapan-Englishtown Cannot Enact Transgender Student Policy, NJ Court Rules

Trans students win “major victory” as court upholds ban on outing LGBTQ+ students

There’s a Reason Even ‘Smart’ People Surrender to Trump
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“Why weren’t and aren’t institutions, hospitals, leaders, individuals, speaking out more against this attack on a group of people who are one of the smallest, most vulnerable populations in the country?

Gessen: So I think there are two reasons: To stand up to an attack, you have to have language and ideas to counter the attack. And that language and those ideas on any kind of scale would have come from the Democratic presidential campaign, which they didn’t.

The Democrats had chosen consciously not to engage with Trump’s anti-trans baiting. Somehow willing it away, or thinking that if they don’t say anything too pro-trans it will go unnoticed that he is trans-baiting them. It’s a strategy that has never worked but the Democrats keep stepping into over and over again.”