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Donald Trump rants about schools turning ‘Tim’ to ‘Sally’ in bizarre midterms pitch
Two days before the U.S. midterm elections, President Donald Trump once again falsely told a rally crowd that schools in blue states were stealing children away and transitioning their genders. The late midterms pitch underscored just how much Republicans have invested in a…
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Abdul El-Sayed sticks up for trans rights in heated ‘60 Minutes’ interview ahead of midterms
Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed made clear he will defend transgender rights in an often combative 60 Minutes interview that aired on Sunday.
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Three women on the verge of history
This story was originally reported by Mel Leonor Barclay and Lydia Chebbine of The 19th . Meet Mel and Lydia and read more of their reporting on gender, politics and policy.
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‘Romantic Sensation’ book spotlights Leon Belmont, a 19th-century gender rebel
Gender variance has existed in human biology and culture since time immemorial. And over the years, researchers have fortunately uncovered many surprising and inspiring stories of transgender and nonbinary people who’ve lived out loud throughout history — often despite the…
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St. Louis police investigate transgender woman’s death as homicide after initially calling it suicide
St. Louis police are investigating the August shooting death of a transgender woman as a homicide after initially classifying it as an apparent suicide. Her mother challenged that finding.
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Advocate NL 11/2/26
Hello and Happy November, folks!
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Texas Supreme Court halts questioning over who’s behind fake trans advocacy mailers to families
The Texas Supreme Court has halted a deposition aimed at exposing who is behind political mailers smearing a transgender advocacy group.
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Trump’s team covered Dubuque’s ‘Solidarity’ mural with a tarp ahead of his arrival in Iowa
Officials in Dubuque, Iowa , ordered the removal of a tarp covering a mural celebrating diversity and solidarity this past weekend after it was hung without the city’s permission ahead of President Donald Trump’s visit. The artwork was created as a symbol of peace and unity…
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Based on anti-trans spending, right-wingers could afford to pay every trans student athlete a six-figure salary
On Tuesday, residents of four U.S. states — Arizona , Colorado , Nebraska , and Washington — will vote on whether to ban transgender athletes from organized sports. Each state has a ballot measure backed by political action committees that spearhead advertising and outreach in…
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Asked about affordability, JD Vance pivots to Jon Husted’s ‘ass’ during Texas town hall
On Thursday, Vice President JD Vance fielded a question about the cost of starting a family by first returning to a fellow Republican’s backside.
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Haley Stevens backs MAGA Republican, then struggles to explain her reversal to Anderson Cooper
Michigan Democratic Congresswoman Haley Stevens appeared alongside anti- LGBTQ+ MAGA Republican Senate candidate Mike Rogers at a Black church Sunday and announced her endorsement of him over her own party’s nominee, Dr. Abdul El-Sayed . The announcement left Democrats outraged…
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Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz says LGBTQ+ rights are ‘a core part’ of her values and agenda
Florida’s gay capital could soon be represented by a longtime ally. In a newly redrawn congressional map, all of Wilton Manors ended up in a district now served by Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Florida’s longest-serving Democratic federal official. It’s a community that has…
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Anonymous texts mislead Missouri voters about trans kids before Election Day, advocates warn
Anonymous text messages offering help obtaining gender-affirming surgery for children are misleading Missouri voters about Tuesday’s election, according to Trans Liberty, a transgender rights organization investigating their source.
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J.D. Vance dressed up as a gay wizard for Halloween
This story originally appeared on Them. Vice President J.D. Vance, a staunch opponent of LGBTQ+ rights who recently insinuated that Texas Democratic Senate candidate James Talarico is gay as a political attack, dressed up as Dumbledore for Halloween.
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Decades after helping a college friend come out, Virginia governor urges voters to protect marriage equality
Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger stood Saturday morning inside the oldest lesbian bar on the East Coast, urging voters to erase a 20-year-old constitutional ban on same-sex marriage. Three days before Election Day, the commonwealth’s first woman governor argued that a right…
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Advocate NL 10/30/26
Hello and Happy Friday, folks!
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Op-ed: A child’s access to preschool shouldn’t depend on who their parents love
In the 1950s, the Supreme Court confronted a fundamental question about educational equality with Brown v. Board of Education : Was it enough for Black children to have access to a public school, even if that access was limited to segregated schools that “allowed” Black…
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Who sent fake transgender advocacy texts in Texas? Court records name GOP women’s group
New Texas court documents identify a Republican group as a client linked to text messages impersonating an LGBTQ+ advocacy group. The Republican Women’s Caucus Fund denies any involvement.
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Spanish prosecutors seek prison for police officers accused of torturing gay Arab man
Two police officers from Catalonia, an autonomous region in northeast Spain , face possible prison sentences for allegedly detaining and torturing a gay Arab man in November 2021.
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Emmy winner Mike Manning once feared that coming out would cost him everything. His life tells another story
When Mike Manning came out as bisexual on television at 22, he thought he might be surrendering the life he wanted, including marriage, children, and the ordinary comforts of belonging. Seventeen years later, he is married and nominated for an Emmy for playing a man whose family…