South Dakota governor signs anti-trans executive orders after ban on trans athletes fails

Several U.S. states with Republican-led legislatures have been unveiling various bills aimed at limiting the rights of transgender people, including recent bills in North Dakota and Alabama that approved bills that would restrict trans females from playing on school sports teams that reflect their gender identity.

Four state legislatures have passed anti-LGBTQ legislation in the past week.

any publicly-funded entities, facilities, or events, which would include college and club sports.

campaign ad on Wednesday pitching himself as a defender of conservative values who would wrest control of the U.S. Senate from the Democratic Party and the political Left, to which the party is allegedly beholden (despite myriad evidence to the contrary).

Lady Gaga‘s ‘ARTPOP’ has said the pair are considering working together once more after the album received renewed love from fans.Despite receiving mixed reviews upon its release in 2013, the record shot to the top of iTunes charts across the world this week as part of a fan campaign to celebrate Gaga’s third record.The singer subsequently responded on social media and said it had “inspired such a tremendous warmth in (her) heart”.“Making this album was like heart surgery, I was desperate, in

Springfield News-Leader. Court documents say that Nelson and Lucious met on an online dating website and had arranged to meet up at Lucious’s apartment, where, prosecutors allege, Nelson fatally shot her.According to charging documents, Nelson matched the description of the man witnesses saw at the scene of the shooting, and drives the same type of car witnesses reported seeing at the scene.

When I travel across the world to find championship-level players, it is so much more than some sort of physical attribute. I can tell you this: when I am vetting a player, skill for the game of basketball is so much more important.

Axios, Jenner has been contemplating a run and has consulted with Caroline Wren, a longtime GOP fundraiser who previously worked at Trump Victory, a joint fundraising committee for President Trump’s 2020 re-election campaign. Wren also organized the rally that preceded the storming of the U.S.

deny gender-affirming care to trans youth, bar LGBTQ-related content from the classroom, or permit discrimination against LGBTQ people in the name of “religious freedom.”Last month, more than 540 NCAA student-athletes signed onto a letter calling out Emmert for his failure to vocally speak out against the slate of anti-LGBTQ bills, and, in particular, those banning transgender youth from participating in sports.The signatories to that letter said they were “extremely frustrated” and

Tennessee, Arkansas, and South Dakota — have signed legislation or issued executive orders barring transgender youth from competing in sports based on their gender identity, with several more states weighing similar measures. Additionally, Arkansas Gov.

Slate, compared the university’s policy on preferred pronouns to compelling a Jewish professor to call a student ‘my Fuhrer’ — adopted the view that the professor’s right to express his personal feelings about gender supersede the university’s attempt to prevent discrimination or the right of a transgender student to not be outed, misgendered, or demeaned in class because of her gender identity. “Traditionally, American universities have been beacons of intellectual diversity and academic

The Washington Post, Rapinoe says that sports taught her important life lessons, and argues that transgender children should be entitled to learn those lessons by participating in sports, without hindrances, just as their cisgender peers are currently able to do.Rapinoe calls out the more than 40 bills introduced in more than two dozen states throughout the country that seek to bar transgender athletes from women’s sports.

Pantene has released an ad celebrating the relationship between a transgender girl and her lesbian moms.In the two-minute commercial, Sawyer, a transgender girl, and her two moms, Ashley and Ellie, celebrate their family motto, “Everybody loves everybody, no matter what path you follow.”The family dynamic between Sawyer and her proud moms is the core of the ad, which is one of a number of recent ads aimed at providing positive representation of the LGBTQ community.Sawyer’s mom Ashley also talks

mere existence is a threat or hindrance to cisgender women.Following the passage of HB 2 in 2016, North Carolina experienced significant economic blowback. Over 200 major business leaders condemned the bill, several musical artists canceled concerts, and several groups and organizations canceled conferences that were scheduled to be held in the state.

Dr. Rachel Levine, Pennsylvania’s secretary of health, speaks during a virtual press conference on March 20, 2020, about COVID-19 cases and infections in the state. Photo: State of Pennsylvania.