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Senegal doubles penalties for homosexuality amid gay sex panic Read more at LGBTQ Nation. Following campaign pledges from both the president and prime minister in Senegal’s latest elections, the country’s Parliament on Wednesday passed a bill doubling penaltie…

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Iowa Gov. touts new law banning local trans rights protections as “the right thing to do” Read more at LGBTQ Nation. Iowa’s Republican Governor just signed a new law banning protections for trans people at the city and county level. Gov. Kim Reynolds signed Senate File 579 earlier this …

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Florida Passes Sweeping, Dangerous Anti-LGBTQ Bill Read more at Equality Florida. Today (March 10), the Florida House passed the sweeping and dangerously vague “Anti-Diversity in Local Government” bill (HB 1001 / SB 1134) by a vote of 77-37, sendin…

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Trump admin directs prisons to wean trans inmates off of hormone therapy in defiance of court order Read more at LGBTQ Nation. Recent guidance from the Trump administration requires federal prisons to begin reducing transgender inmates’ hormone therapy treatments. Medical experts warn that the mo…

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Idaho House passes resolution- again- asking SCOTUS to overturn marriage equality Read more at LGBTQ Nation. The Idaho House of Representatives passed a measure this week asking the Supreme Court to overturn its landmark 2015 decision legalizing same-sex marriage across the U.S.…

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Ken Paxton rolls out “bathroom bill” snitch line allegation ahead of heated Texas US Senate run-off Read more at LGBTQ Nation. The aggrieved mother of a Texas high school student has submitted what’s being described as the first formal complaint lodged over failure to comply with the state’s drac…

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Constitutional Court to rule on ‘Tajani Decree’ restricting Italian citizenship by descent Read more at Visa HQ. On 11 March the Italian Constitutional Court will hear challenges to Legislative Decree 36/2025—nick-named the ‘Tajani Decree’—which limited jure sanguinis citizenship claims …

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Pair jailed for attack on gay men in ‘encouraging’ moment for Kenya’s queer community Read more at Pink News. Two people have been sentenced to jail time for attacking and robbing two gay men in Kenya, a ruling that has been hailed as a breakthrough moment for queer people in the ea…

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New Hampshire House advances transgender bathroom bill, breaking with New England Read more at the Advocate. In most of New England, the question of whether transgender people may use bathrooms consistent with their gender identity has largely been settled. In New Hampshire, law…

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Iowa bill on parental rights and LGBTQ protections sparks debate Read more at KCCI news. A bill moving through the Iowa Legislature is sparking a heated debate over parental rights and LGBTQ protections, as House lawmakers voted 65 to 31 to pass it. The bill sta…

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Fla. Senate passes ‘Anti-Diversity’ bill that could repeal local LGBTQ protections Read more at the Washington Blade. The Florida Senate on March 4 voted 25-11 to approve an “Anti-Diversity in Local Government” bill that critics have called a sweeping and extreme measure that, am…

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Republican TX AG bans “radical” mental health workers from affirming trans youth: It’s “child abuse” Read more at LGBTQ Nation. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) has declared that it is illegal for mental health care providers licensed by the state to affirm trans youth and that doing so is ch…

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Republican TX AG sues chest binding company & claims its making “a fortune by hurting kids” Read more at LGBTQ Nation. Texas Attorney General and U.S. Senate candidate Ken Paxton (R) is suing a New York-based company for marketing chest binders to minors. Paxton has accused trans and nonb…

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17 states consider cutting assistance for HIV meds as prices increase Read more at LGBTQ Nation. States across the U.S. have either implemented or are considering measures that limit access to life-saving medications for tens of thousands of low-income people living …

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Supreme Court forces California to allow teachers to out trans kids Read more at LGBTQ Nation. The Supreme Court yesterday blocked a law in California that bans teachers from outing trans kids to their parents from going into effect. The decision was 6-3, with the …

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Scouting America says transgender kids are still welcome after Pete Hegseth claimed they weren’t Read more at Advocate. Scouting America on Friday pushed back on claims by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth that the organization would limit membership based solely on sex assigned at birth, insisti…

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Kansas sued over transgender ID and bathroom law that invalidated driver’s licenses, birth certificates Read more at Reuters. Two transgender men in Kansas filed a lawsuit on Friday seeking to strike down a new state law that invalidated the driver’s licenses and birth certificates of…

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Kansas Sends Letters To Trans People Demanding The Immediate Surrender Of Drivers Licenses Read more at Erin in the Morning. Today, transgender people across Kansas are reporting receiving letters from the Kansas Division of Vehicles stating that they must surrender their driver’s …

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Senegal PM proposes tougher anti-LGBT law, doubling prison terms Read more at BBC. Senegal’s Prime Minister Ousmane Sonko has introduced legislation that could double the maximum penalty for same-sex relations, making them punishable by up to 10 years in p…

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Court shuts down “nakedly hateful” law banning LGBTQ+ student clubs in Texas Read more at LGBTQ Nation. In a win for LGBTQ+ Texans, a federal judge has temporarily barred a group of public school districts from enforcing the nation’s first law explicitly…

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Netherlands’ first gay prime minister sworn in Read more at LGBTQ Nation. Rob Jetten, who is an out gay man with a fiance, is officially the prime minister of the Netherlands. He is the first out LGBTQ+ person to hold the position. Dutch King W…

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Gay couple from homophobic country is now trying to self-deport after mistreatment ICE detention Read more at LGBTQ Nation. A gay couple from Azerbaijan is suffering the current administration’s crusade against immigrants from two sides of a heavy glass partition at an ICE detention facility i…

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Hate incidents against LGBTQ+ community on the rise in Texas, across the U.S.: Report Read more at CBS News. Hate incidents against the LGBTQ+ community are increasing across the country, including in Texas. That’s according to a new report by GLAAD, one of the large…

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Victoria passes law protecting intersex children from unnecessary surgeries Read more at Pink News. The Victorian Parliament has passed a new law that protects intersex children from being subjected to unnecessary medical procedures without their consent. The new legislati…

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Ken Paxton sues Children’s Health and Dallas doctor for allegedly providing transgender youth care Read more at KERA News. Attorney General Ken Paxton sued Children’s Health System of Texas and a Dallas doctor Wednesday for allegedly violating a Texas ban on gender-affirming care for minor…

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Kansas GOP overrides gov’s veto to enact bill that could ban “husbands from wives’ shared hospital rooms” Read more at LGBTQ Nation. Republican lawmakers in Kansas overrode Gov. Laura Kelly’s (D) veto of an extreme bathroom bill that Democrats say will ban people from visiting loved ones in hospitals, …

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European Parliament passes resolution that says trans women are women Read more at LGBTQ Nation. The European Parliament agreed to a resolution that says that trans women are women last Wednesday. The resolution was to adopt recommendations concerning the European Un…

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Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly vetoes anti-trans ‘bathroom bounty’ bill Read more at the Advocate. Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly has vetoed what LGBTQ+ advocates are calling an anti-transgender “bathroom bounty” bill. Kelly, a Democrat in a heavily&n…

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Angelina Jolie Plans to Flee the Country This Year Read more at The Daily Beast. Angelina Jolie appears ready to close the chapter on her life in the United States, with her final obstacle to leaving set to be resolved in a few months. The Ete…

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Trump’s new State Dept. nominee said lesbian union leader should get death penalty Read more at LGBTQ Nation. Jeremy Carl, President Donald Trump’s nominee to head the Bureau of International Organization Affairs, deleted thousands of social media posts before his nomination. One…

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