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A Massachusetts federal judge on Friday temporarily paused the Trump administration’s passport policy removing the ability of transgender people to change their sex markers and non-binary people to get “X” markers for their travel documents.

Biden appointee U.S. District Judge Julia E. Kobick held that a group of transgender and nonbinary people who sued the administrationin February were likely to succeed with arguments that they were denied their constitutional right to equal protection for a policy with little apparent motivation beyond anti-LGBT+ animus.

She called the administration’s passport policies, stemming from a January executive order mandating the government only officially recognize two immutable sexes, male and female, “part of a coordinated and rapid rollback of rights and protections previously afforded to transgender Americans, suggesting that these challenged actions are built on a foundation of irrational prejudice toward fellow citizens.”

Kobick also shot down arguments from the government in its January order that the new sex policy would protect women’s safety in single-sex spaces like locker rooms.…..

longtime lurker said:

Trump administration opens a "snitch line" to report trans kids getting health care - LGBTQ Nation

The new portal launch coincides with an investigation into a major children's hospital.

www.lgbtqnation.com

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Internet, do what you do with crap like this. Fill it with ridicule and false reports until they're forced to shut it down. Report Baron Trump and JD's kids.

longtime lurker said:

Trump administration opens a "snitch line" to report trans kids getting health care - LGBTQ Nation

The new portal launch coincides with an investigation into a major children's hospital.

www.lgbtqnation.com

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Hopefully it will work as well as Virginia’s CRT snitch line did

So much of America right now is in a cruel, stupid condition. Mississippi teens can get married at 15 with parental consent. But they can't change their forking name b/c "trans is bad!"

Just pure evil….

A prince lassos a dragon, saving a knight in shining armor from certain death. But the prince slips and as he falls, the knight and his steed race to return the favor.

Then the two men fall in love.

That story, “Prince and Knight,” is one of five children's books featuring LGBTQ characters and aimed at kindergarten through the fifth grade that have roiled a diverse suburban Maryland school district and led to a Supreme Court case that the justices will hear on Tuesday.

Parents in Montgomery County who object for religious reasons want to pull their children from elementary school classes that use the books.

The county school system has refused and lower courts have so far agreed.

But the outcome could be different at a high court dominated by conservative justices who have repeatedly endorsed claims of religious discrimination in recent years……..

A leaked federal government budget draft would eliminate services for LGBT+ youth who call a national suicide and crisis hotline that reaches thousands of young Americans every month.

Under a budget plan from the Department of Health and Human Services, Donald Trump’s administration would slash all funding for 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline’s LGBTQ+ Youth Specialized Services, a federal program that runs the “988” phone line and connects callers with counselors and other services.

The budget draft, first reported by The Washington Post, would go into effect October 1 if approved by Congress.

Since its launch in 2022, the 988 crisis line has provided more than 1.2 million people with life-saving, LGBTQ+-inclusive crisis services, according to The Trevor Project, which responds to nearly half of all calls and texts to 988 from LGBT+ young people.

Last year, The Trevor Project alone directly served more than 231,000 people through the program. The service for LGBT+ youth has received more than 1.3 million calls, texts or chats since 2022.…….

Optimus Prime said:

A leaked federal government budget draft would eliminate services for LGBT+ youth who call a national suicide and crisis hotline that reaches thousands of young Americans every month.

Under a budget plan from the Department of Health and Human Services, Donald Trump’s administration would slash all funding for 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline’s LGBTQ+ Youth Specialized Services, a federal program that runs the “988” phone line and connects callers with counselors and other services.

The budget draft, first reported by The Washington Post, would go into effect October 1 if approved by Congress.

Since its launch in 2022, the 988 crisis line has provided more than 1.2 million people with life-saving, LGBTQ+-inclusive crisis services, according to The Trevor Project, which responds to nearly half of all calls and texts to 988 from LGBT+ young people.

Last year, The Trevor Project alone directly served more than 231,000 people through the program. The service for LGBT+ youth has received more than 1.3 million calls, texts or chats since 2022.…….

Trump wants to slash funding for suicide hotline for LGBT+ kids

The 988 crisis line connects thousands of young LGBT+ people to counseling every month

www.independent.co.uk

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This is really evil. Especially with the lack of mental health care in this country.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Organizers and the Kennedy Center have canceled a week’s worth of events celebrating LGBTQ+ rights for this summer’s World Pride festival in Washington, D.C., amid a shift in priorities and the ousting of leadership at one of the nation’s premier cultural institutions.

Multiple artists and producers involved in the center’s Tapestry of Pride schedule, which had been planned for June 5 to 8, told The Associated Press that their events had been quietly canceled or moved to other venues. And in the wake of the cancellations, Washington’s Capital Pride Alliance has disassociated itself from the Kennedy Center.


“We are a resilient community, and we have found other avenues to celebrate,” said June Crenshaw, deputy director of the alliance. “We are finding another path to the celebration … but the fact that we have to maneuver in this way is disappointing.”…….