2+ week, 5+ day ago (920+ words) It upheld a state law protecting LGBTQ+ elders' rights to live free from harassment. The California Supreme Court has upheld a law that protects LGBTQ+ long-term care residents from discrimination, abuse, and harassment. A lower court had claimed employees" First Amendment rights meant they could deliberately misgender residents, but that ruling has been reversed. The decision is based on the LGBT Long-Term Care Residents" Bill of Rights, originally authored by state Sen. Scott Wiener (D) and signed into law in 2017. The bill included various provisions for LGBTQ+ people, including making it so that trans residents had to be housed in rooms that aligned with their gender identity and what has become known as the "pronoun provision." That provision, alongside other proscriptions against discrimination, aimed to prevent employees "willfully and repeatedly failing to use a resident"s preferred name or pronouns after…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago (681+ words) November 2025: Parents of trans kids: A force to be reckoned with "Moms (and people) like you are so very needed in the world and this makes me so happy." The internet cannot get enough of a mom on Reddit who asked for help renaming her trans daughter. The mom said the eighteen-year-old asked her mom to select a name because "she still wants to be named by her mama." "I melted," the mom wrote on the subreddit "Name Nerds." She said she and her husband have been "100% supportive" and that she's excited to have another girl in the house since her daughter has three brothers. The mom asked fellow Reddit users for help, sharing her daughter's parameters, their family's ancestry, and the names of her other children. "She's incredibly intelligent, bookish, shy but spunky, and a total sweetheart," the mom…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago (543+ words) "This is a dot gov domain paid for with your tax dollars," wrote on horrified legal expert. The official White House website has unveiled a page called "mysafespace: a place for dems, whose sole purpose is to make fun of Democrats and blame them for the ongoing shutdown. The page is meant to mimic a MySpace blog, with an "About me section describing Congressional Democrats as folks who "love DEI, transgender for everyone, and handing out taxpayer benefits to illegal immigrants. They identify Democratic "Heroes as "Anyone who identifies as a radical leftist. Transnational gangs, illegal immigrants, and use a screenshot from a fake and racist AI video that portrays House Minority Leader'Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) with a Mexican sombrero and a fake moustache. "I can't believe this is real, Orlins wrote on Instagram, emphasizing, "This is a dot gov domain…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago (495+ words) It's not the first time Trump Jr. has spoken publicly about his dad's private area. The president's 47-year-old son, Donald Trump Jr., re-posted a social media message bragging about his 79-year-old father's testicles. The post included images of Trump sitting with open legs as well as images of Newsom and Obama sitting with their legs crossed " images exist of the latter two men sitting with their legs open as well. The size of a man's testicles have long been referred to as a metaphoric representation of a man's strength, energy, or sex drive, and Trump Jr. has expressed his preoccupation with his father's gonads in the past. Trump has previously bragged to Carrolla that his penis is bigger than his dad's. The president infamously defended the size of his penis at the 2016 Republican presidential debate and insulted the size of…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago (879+ words) "There are kids out there right now who are going through exactly what I went through in 1995," the author said about his book. Maryland's State Board of Education reversed a local book ban for the first time under the state's Freedom to Read Act, allowing an LGBTQ+ title to be returned to middle and high school shelves in one district. As The Baltimore Banner and other outlets report, the state board's Tuesday decision comes after the Harford County school board banned author Mike Curato's semi-autobiographical young adult graphic novel Flamer last summer. The 2020 book details a teenage boy's experience of being bullied for being gay and of experiencing his first crush at a Boy Scouts summer camp in 1995. According to the American Library Association, Flamer was among the five most challenged or banned books in the country in 2022 and 2023, and…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago (1048+ words) The music superstar has already raised a shocking amount of money. Music superstar Chappell Roan has announced the launch of her organization devoted to supporting trans youth. The Midwest Princess Project " a nod to her album, The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess " has already raised more than $400,000 through fundraising efforts at Roan's recent pop-up shows. "Those funds will be donated to incredible organizations making a positive impact for trans youth in their communities," Roan wrote on social media when launching the project in late October. The post named six organizations to which it has already donated: The Ali Forney Center and The Center in New York City, the GLO Center and The Center Project in Missouri, and the TransLatin@ Coalition and Trans Wellness Center in Los Angeles. The TransLatin@ Coalition and The Ali Forney Center are some of…...

1+ day, 22+ hour ago (881+ words) November 2025: Parents of trans kids: A force to be reckoned with "I could feel how I had failed my child," said one mom of a trans son. In a partnership with filmmaker Brooke Sebold, LGBTQ+ advocacy organization PFLAG has launched a five-episode video series called I Changed My Mind. Each short documentary film focuses on a single story that examines understandings of LGBTQ+ identities and the space needed for someone's opinions to evolve over time. "Stories have the power to challenge assumptions, build bridges, and inspire change," said Sebold. "This series brings to life the deeply personal transformations that can happen when people are willing to listen, reflect, and open themselves up to love." Through the real stories told in the I Changed My Mind series, PFLAG hopes it can help people "embrace empathy and step into authenticity." While political…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago (1039+ words) The customer demanded to speak to the owner's manager. The owner told her that she doesn't have a manager because she owns the place. A video of a customer berating and misgendering a Burger King worker recently went viral. The customer tried to get the owner on her side, but instead, she just got kicked out of the fast-food restaurant. The video, shot from the customer's point of view, opens with the customer demanding to know a worker's name at a Kansas Burger King. The worker has a trans flag pin on. "My name is Lily," the worker responds. The customer complains that Lily called her "sir" too, and Lily says that's because the customer called her "young man" even though "I politely corrected you multiple times." "You don't get to correct me!" the customer says. "I will address you…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago (1219+ words) The Democratic governor slammed the president's war on education in a speech to the Illinois Federation of Teachers. Footage from a speech last month by Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker (D) has recently gained traction on social media for his bold, unapologetic words against Donald Trump. "President Trump and his bootlickers have torn down the U.S. Dept. of Education from the inside," Pritzker told the Illinois Federation of Teachers on October 19. "Instead of helping to improve math and reading scores like you all are doing and supporting our educators, they're making it harder for students to get ahead." "Books are being banned. History is being erased. Republicans want to take billions away from public schools and pump it into private institutions." The crowd booed. "They want to punish teachers for telling the truth," Pritzker continued. "They want to criminalize educators for supporting LGBTQ…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago (522+ words) He said the results of these races could be "huge bellwethers" for midterm elections next year. Citing Donald Trump's massive unpopularity, CNN chief data analyst Harry Enten predicted Democrats will have a very good day in tomorrow's elections, which include the highly charged New Jersey and Virginia gubernatorial races and the New York City mayoral election. He said the results of these races could be "huge bellwethers" for midterm elections next year and how the president will impact them. "He is a huge, huge drag across the board," Enten emphasized again. The likely Democratic victories tomorrow are significant, he explained, because in the past ninety years, when Democrats sweep the New York City mayor, the New Jersey governor, and the Virginia governor, they have won the U.S. House five out of five times. "And when we're in this national polarized environment…...