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Is Florida about to enter a new AIDS epidemic? Over 10,000 Floridians could lose HIV medication
“If there is anything that they could do to harm this community, they will do it,” says Florida Democratic Party Chair Nikki Fried
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Jake Graf takes a trip to Palm Springs, a safe spot for trans people in America
A British trans man’s long-awaited trip to Palm Springs becomes a tense, tactical mission to cross President Trump’s hostile borders – yet it’s a reminder that pockets of welcome still exist
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Trump administration faces complaints over the removal of gender-affirming care from federal health insurance plans
“This policy is not about cost or care – it is about driving transgender people," says Human Rights Campaign Foundation president Kelley Robinson
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Donald Trump plans to strip rape protections for trans prisoners, leaked memo reveals
“These changes to the PREA standards are reckless and dangerous," says Linda McFarlane, executive director of Just Detention International
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Trump administration could cut hospital funding providing care for transgender youth in new proposal
The Department of Health and Human Services is proposing rules that could block payments and federal funding for hospitals providing gender-affirming care to minors
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US intelligence erases trans people from Pride Month report, writing ‘LGB+’
As government agencies continue rolling back diversity initiatives in the US, The Department of Homeland Security’s Office of Intelligence and Analysis joins the list
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Trump administration threatens 46 states to remove educational transgender resources
Letters issued educational institutions must remove "all references to gender ideology"
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Illinois launches first-ever statewide LGBTQ+ legal hotline after Trump administration shut down national line
Illinois is the "the only state in the entire United States" to launch an LGBTQ+ legal hotline, says Governor JB Pritzker
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Alan Cumming says America treats rapists better than trans people on Jimmy Kimmel Live
"Do you think anyone in the Trump Administration could actually name two trans people"
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Comedian Amber Ruffin dropped from White House press dinner after calling Trump administration ‘murderers’
Ruffin previously stated that she would not honour a request to roast both Democratic and Republican politicians at the event
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Trump administration rolls back transgender healthcare protections
The latest attack on LGBTQ rights came on the fourth anniversary of the Orlando Pulse massacre.
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Trump Cabinet Bible leader says gay people to blame for coronavirus
Reverend Ralph Drollinger wrote an article blaming several groups for the COVID-19 crisis, including those who have “a proclivity toward lesbianism and homosexuality”
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American Supreme Court allows Trump’s transgender ban in the military to go into effect
The high court refused to take up cases but some cases will continue to move through lower courts
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Trump administration lawyers say trans troops won’t be discharged as long as they identify with biological gender
They argued that not all transgender people undergo gender confirmation surgery
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Trump administration waters down LGBT employment protection rights in trade deal with Canada and Mexico
The new wording says the US is 'sufficient to fulfil the obligations' on labour rights
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Mike Pence fails to acknowledge the LGBT community in White House’s World HIV/Aids Day speech
The vice president also claimed the Trump administration is doing everything to combat the virus despite continually cutting funding
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‘That is the absolute height of arrogance’: Dr Phil McGraw hits back at Trump’s anti-transgender memo
The Trump administration revealed that they are looking to legally abolish transgender people on a federal level
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‘Will my son be sent to internment camp’: Cher has hit back at Trump’s plan to abolish transgender rights
The legendary singer's son Chaz Bono is transgender and also slammed the President's new policy
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Trump administration wants to abolish transgender rights
Trump's Department of Health and Human Services is seeking to redefine gender "as a biological, immutable condition determined by genitalia at birth".
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Gus Kenworthy to headline Democratic National Committee’s LGBTQ gala
Kenworthy has been using his platform to take a stand against the Trump administration