‘Gender ideology’: The history of the right’s new favorite phrase
The right has rallied behind the anti-trans slogan in their campaign against transgender rights.
By Nick Vachon - June 08, 2023LGBTQ+
Students didn’t want Pence’s bigotry tainting their graduation ceremony.
By Oliver Willis - May 20, 2019Sen. Mike Lee is very unhappy that the House passed legislation to advance equality in America.
By Oliver Willis - May 17, 2019Republicans wanted to add language that specifically allows for discrimination against LGBTQ individuals to an anti-discrimination bill.
By Emily Singer - May 17, 2019A unified Democratic Party passed a landmark anti-discrimination bill.
By Dan Desai Martin - May 17, 2019The Trump administration is ‘filled with a lot of hate toward the LGBTQ community,’ said Minnesota’s teacher of the year.
By Dan Desai Martin - April 30, 2019New proposed rules from Trump’s health department would let bigoted health care professionals discriminate against patients.
By Dan Desai Martin - April 25, 2019California, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, and Washington state are defying Trump’s bigoted transgender ban.
By Dan Desai Martin - April 24, 2019Army Capt. Jennifer Peace slammed Trump for hurting soldiers with his bigoted ban.
By Oliver Willis - April 15, 2019The American Medical Association says there is ‘no medically valid reason’ for Trump’s transgender military ban.
By Dan Desai Martin - April 11, 2019In a congressional hearing, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos admitted that her actions could harm transgender students.
By Dan Desai Martin - April 10, 2019Ben Carson got called out for his evasive answers about bigotry.
By Oliver Willis - April 04, 2019Republicans are fighting a bill that would ban discrimination ‘on the basis of sex, gender identity, and sexual orientation.’
By Emily Singer - April 02, 2019The DOJ is not a good place to work if you’re gay, lesbian, bisexual, or transgender — but it’s unlikely that Trump’s attorney general will do anything about it.
By Lisa Needham - March 29, 2019The House condemned Trump’s bigoted ban on transgender troops serving — but nearly every Republican sided against members of the military.
By Dan Desai Martin - March 28, 2019Republicans in Tennessee are attacking LGBT rights and equality, but members of the clergy are standing up to stop them.
By Oliver Willis - March 19, 2019Trump’s plans would make the military weaker. Maybe that’s why he wants to hide them from the American people.
By Oliver Willis - March 14, 2019Sen. Doug Jones says extremists are taking cues from the Trump administration’s hateful words and deeds.
By Oliver Willis - March 05, 2019Trump emboldens bigots to air their filthy views in public.
By Lisa Needham - February 21, 2019Trump’s ambassador has launched a major policy initiative that will ripple around the world. Trump says he has no idea what’s going on.
By Oliver Willis - February 20, 2019Trump and Pence court bigotry for votes. That gets people hurt and killed.
By Oliver Willis - February 01, 2019At the behest of far-right fringe figures, Trump’s Department of Agriculture forced 4-H, the agriculturally-focused youth group, to rescind guidance that welcomed LGBT youth.
By Lisa Needham - November 20, 2018Trump wants to redefine ‘sex’ to allow discrimination against transgender people.
By Emily Crockett - October 21, 2018Homosexuality is illegal in many countries, but Trump is still forcing the same-sex partners of United Nations staffers to get legally married if they want to stay in the U.S.
By Emily Crockett - October 02, 2018On the same night Sarah Huckabee Sanders got kicked out of Red Hen, two of my transgender friends were denied bathroom access. This is what real discrimination looks like.
By Emily Crockett - June 26, 2018Mike Pence’s hometown turned out to show that his anti-LGBT bigotry is not welcome there.
By Caroline Orr - April 14, 2018Huckabee thinks opposing his bigotry is “intolerant.”
By Tommy Christopher - March 05, 2018Less than 24 hours after Mike Huckabee was appointed to the board of the Country Music Association (CMA), he was gone.
By Oliver Willis - March 01, 2018Trump’s hand-selected military officials are pushing back on his bigoted proposed ban of transgender service members.
By Oliver Willis - February 23, 2018