Trident’s tweet about transgender gum pops all over its face

Last October, I attended a high school Halloween party. A group of guys from my school surrounded me and shouted homophobic slurs. One even threatened me with physical violence.

Coronation Street beauty Kimberly Hart-Simpson who plays the role of Nicky Wheatley has opened up about being trolled because of her sexuality. The 35-year-old actress returned to the cobbled streets of Corrie last week and has recently appeared on E4's Celebs Go Dating – where she revealed that she wasn't heterosexual.When she appeared on the celebrity dating show she spoke out about being pansexual, which means that she is attracted to people of any gender identity.

Apple CEO Tim Cook has denounced Florida’s ‘Don’t Say Gay’ bill in a new social media statement.

Winter Park, Fla. — Last October, I attended a high school Halloween party. A group of guys from my school surrounded me and shouted homophobic slurs.

Jussie Smollett to 150 days in jail, branding the Black and gay actor a narcissistic charlatan for staging a hate crime against himself to grab the limelight while the nation struggled with wrenching issues of racial injustice.Smollett responded by defiantly maintaining his innocence and suggesting he could be killed in jail.The sentence and Smollett’s post-hearing outburst capped an hourslong hearing Thursday and more than three years of legal drama following Smollett’s claim that he had been the target of a racist and homophobic attack.Smollett didn’t make a statement when offered the opportunity before the judge announced the sentence, saying he was listening to his attorneys’ advice. But after Cook County Judge James Linn issued his decision, Smollett removed the face mask he wore throughout the hearing to proclaim himself innocent.“If I did this, then it means that I stuck my fist in the fears of Black Americans in this country for over 400 years and the fears of the LGBT community," Smollett said, standing up at the defense table as his lawyers and sheriff’s deputies surrounded him.

Manchester, transitioning from female to male and taking hormone treatments, but he also believed his now-ex partner was infertile. But despite all this, nine weeks into hormone treatments, Ryan, 24, discovered he was expecting a child.

executive order that directs law enforcement officials to investigate gender affirming medical treatments for transgender youths as a crime has grown loud and intense, with many demanding LGTBQ organizations condemn the order through significant action not just words.In an op-ed posted to SB Nation’s Outsports.com on Tuesday, March 1, Brittney Miller — 11-year veteran of the Gay Softball World Series (GSWS) and manager of the Puget Sound Pronouns — called for the 2022 event to be removed from Dallas and held in another city.Citing the fact that the GSWS has an “economic impact” of $5 to 7 million, Miller stated the North American Gay Amateur Athletic Alliance (NAGAAA) should find a new host city in a different state to support the transgender community.Miller called the executive order cruel and explained how it criminalizes the mere existence of transgender people, but her most severe criticisms were reserved for NAGAAA itself.The organization, which Miller stated is one of the “largest governing bodies of queer athletes in America,” has yet to release a statement on the issue, a decision Miller believes is indicative of how the organization views its transgender members.“NAGAAA’s failure to release even a milquetoast statement shows we [the transgender community] are an afterthought to them,” she wrote. “If the trans community can’t count on them to stand up to bullies in the face of cruelty and intolerance, who can we count on?”She explained that the “wait and see” approach NAGAAA seems to be employing with the executive order should be abandoned, immediately.

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directive that claimed letting kids access gender-affirming care is child abuse.It comes days after a Texas court denied the state’s appeal of a restraining order temporarily blocking the investigation of one set of parents who’ve allowed their transgender daughter to access gender-affirming care.Texas Civil District Court Judge Amy Clark Meachum last week granted the restraining order, which stopped this investigation, and after Friday's hearing to consider blocking Abbott’s directive statewide, she decided to do so.She ruled that Abbott's order was not adopted properly and violated the Texas constitution. He had ordered the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services to investigate all parents who allow their kids to receive such care.

Texas Governor Greg Abbott’s possibly unconstitutional executive order requiring state agencies to investigate anyone, including parents, involved in or facilitating the delivery of medically-necessary gender-affirming care to transgender youth and teens has just been blocked, temporarily, by a Texas judge.

Gov. Greg Abbott, with his wife Cecilia, left, at a primary election night event, on March 1 in Corpus Christi, Texas. (Eric Gay/Associated Press)

criticized for not immediately and publicly condemning the legislation. The company has also donated at least $250,000 to Florida Republican senators who voted to pass the bill."I truly believe we are an infinitely better and stronger company because of our LGBTQ+ community.

The Walt Disney Company has a big problem. It wants to be loved by everybody: Massachusetts liberals and Mississippi conservatives, Muslims in Saudi Arabia and atheists in China. It therefore prefers to minimize the number of times it takes stands on hot-button social issues.

Apple, Google, Meta, IBM, IKEA, Microsoft and Ben & Jerry's, have signed a letter that also appeared as an advertisement in The Dallas Morning News to criticize and call for an end to the "anti-LGBTQ+ efforts" of Texas Governor Greg Abbott.Late last month and earlier this month, Abbott told the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services to begin investigating parents of transgender children who receive some sex-change procedures for child abuse, which has led to widespread criticism as several investigations have been opened by the department.This is a developing story that will be updated as more information becomes available.

HOUSTON — Child abuse investigators in Texas have been told to prioritize cases involving the parents of transgender children and to investigate them without exception, after the state’s governor ordered certain medical care to be treated as abuse, an investigations supervisor said during a court hearing on Friday. The supervisor, Randa Mulanax of the Department of Family and Protective Services, testified that the agency was not given the freedom to determine that a given report involving a transgender child was likely not in fact a case of child abuse — so-called “priority none” status — and that investigators were not able to close the cases. “I’ve been told about that directly,” said Ms.

Rusty Mae Moore, a transgender educator and activist who housed hundreds of transgender people in the 1990s and 2000s in her Brooklyn home, a de facto shelter that became known as Transy House, died on Feb. 23 at her home in Pine Hill, N.Y., in the Catskills. She was 80.

De Amerikaanse acteur Jussie Smollett is veroordeeld tot 150 dagen celstraf en een geldboete van 120.000 dollar voor het doen van een valse aangifte van een racistische en homofobe aanval. Dat heeft een rechter in Chicago bepaald, nadat een jury de acteur in december al schuldig had bevonden.

The New York Times reports.The head belonged to a body found wrapped in a garbage bag in a shopping cart last week. A man walking past the cart discovered a torso after reaching into the bag, first feeling a roll of toilet paper and then the body, according to WNBC.Marcelin has been indicted on second-degree murder charges connected to the death of 68-year-old Susan Leyden. She’s also accused of dismembering Leyden and concealing the body parts.She’s spent over five decades in prison for murder and manslaughter.

More than 60 major businesses, including household names in technology and retail, have signed onto a new advertising campaign in Texas protesting a move by the state’s governor to label as “child abuse” medical treatments that are widely considered to be the standard of care for transgender teenagers. In digital ads and a full-page advertisement in Friday’s Dallas Morning News, the businesses assailed a Feb. 22 directive by Gov.

Laura Ingraham leaned extra hard into homophobia during a segment about Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay” bill on her show this week. Now, her gay brother is speaking out.On Wednesday night’s episode of The Ingraham Angle, the Fox News propagandist dug into opponents of the bill, which bans curricula concerning LGBTQ issues in Florida classrooms, accusing them of wanting to “sexually brainwash” other people’s children.Related: Laura Ingraham defends Dave Chappelle’s transphobia, even though he called her a “c*nt”“When did our public schools, any schools, become what are essentially grooming centers for gender identity radicals?” she said above a chyron written in all-caps that read: “LIBERALS ARE SEXUALLY GROOMING ELEMENTARY STUDENTS”.Ingraham added, “As a mom, I think it’s appalling, it’s frightening, it’s disgusting, it’s despicable.”But she wasn’t finished yet.

Greg Abbott and Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton issued a directive stating that supportive parents of transgender children should be investigated for child abuse. The letter goes on to impose reporting requirements on medical providers, educators and "the general public."In particular, the order targets parents who follow the prevailing standard of care for the treatment of gender dysphoria that has been adopted by the American Medical Association, the American Academy of Pediatrics and the American Psychological Association, among others.

PinkNews, found via YouGov only 24% of UK adults are opposed to teenagers accessing online content about trans lives, and only a minority of parents (28%) are concerned about this.Mari said: ‘Pure Trans Joy is important because it provides representation and inspiration.‘As the number of transgender individuals rises each year, the lack of representation is still present.‘For many trans youth and young adults to see other trans individuals in a state of mind where happiness was made a centre front for someone else doesn’t bring envy – it brings joy, inspiration, and motivation.‘Most people believe that transitioning is hard. Which at times, it can be, but not everyone’s journey has to be depressing, sad, or confusing.’Ryder added part of his struggle was because he had ‘never been exposed to LGBT+ people in a positive light while growing up’.Couple who fell in love on TikTok marry two weeks after meeting in personMan gives birth to son after surprise pregnancySome people are finding a way to blame the trans community for the war in UkraineJK Rowling slammed for criticising Labour MP over definition of woman‘Now, I hope that my being “out and proud” may just be something that someone scrolling through social media sees and gets to have that moment of “oh, hey, trans people exist in real life and don’t just live the constant drama (and trauma) that’s on tv”,’ he added.He hopes the show will help others with struggles around coming out, and offered other trans people the advice to ‘take your time’.

administration’s guidance supporting transgender and nonbinary youth’s access to gender-affirming care, according to a news release from the state’s Attorney General’s Office.On March 2, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued the guidance as a direct response to Texas Gov.

Emmett Schelling, TENT executive director, speaks outside the Travis County courthouse where a hearing was held to stop investigations targeting supportive families of transgender children, on March 2. (Erich Schlegel/AP Images for Human Rights Campaign)

39-year-old actor Jussie Smollett was sentenced to 150 days in jail and 30 months of probation for orchestrating a racist and homophobic hate crime against himself. Smollett was found guilty in December for lying to the police about the hoax and must also pay $120,000 in restitution to the city of Chicago. In 2019, Jussie […]

Survivor’s first transgender castaway to enter the competition already out had to leave just three days because of an undisclosed medication.

HOUSTON — Jeffery Younger fought for years with his ex-wife, a pediatrician, over the gender identity of one of their twins. While she followed the advice of their children’s doctor to affirm the child’s desire to dress as a girl, grow long hair and be known as Luna, Mr. Younger steadfastly objected.

De Amerikaanse acteur Jussie Smollett is veroordeeld tot 150 dagen celstraf en een geldboete van 120.000 dollar voor het doen van een valse aangifte van een racistische en homofobe aanval. Dat heeft een rechter in Chicago bepaald, nadat een jury de acteur in december al schuldig had bevonden.

he had been attacked by two men in a racist and homophobic assault while returning home from a restaurant. He claimed to have been beaten and to have had a substance thrown on him.

directive from Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, in conjunction with Texas Governor Greg Abbott, Paxton said that certain gender affirmation procedures "when performed on children, can legally constitute child abuse under several provisions of...the Texas Family Code."Paxton added that the treatments could cause "mental or emotional injury to a child that results in an observable and material impairment in the child's growth, development, or psychological functioning."The attorney general had written the directive in response to an inquiry from the Texas House of Representatives which asked if certain "medical and chemical procedures on children" could fall under the category of child abuse. The House's inquiry came after the Texas legislature failed to pass a law that would have criminalized these types of treatments.The investigations were opened despite district attorneys in five of Texas' largest counties releasing a letter condemning Paxton's directive.

More than 60 major businesses, including household names in technology and retail, have signed onto a new advertising campaign in Texas protesting a move by the state’s governor to label as “child abuse” medical treatments that are widely considered to be the standard of care for transgender teenagers. In digital ads and a full-page advertisement in Friday’s Dallas Morning News, the businesses assailed a Feb. 22 directive by Gov.

While Texas’ Republican leaders are scrambling even further right and are attacking the state’s transgender residents in an effort to energize their base voters, Republican lawmakers in Arizona and the Republican governor of Utah are instead helping kill harmful bills targeting transgender people, especially trans youth.

Dallas County District Attorney John Creuzot 

Idaho Press. “I applaud those parents and their courage, as well as the young people who have let their parents know, ‘I think I’m a little different.”“Can we just cut Florida off?”“Can we just ban Texas from the US?”“Can we just remove Idaho from—?”When are y’all gonna realize these aren’t isolated, state-specific problems?This is a coordinated, nationwide attack against trans people.The bill’s sponsor, Rep.

The Texas Tribune through their lawyer. “It always seemed like this day would come.

all of us to embrace women of all experiences at the forefront of change.This National Women and Girls HIV/AIDS Awareness Day’s theme is “YOU. ME.

“Texas sues to prevent losing federal funds over its investigations of trans children’s families” was first published by The Texas Tribune, a nonprofit, nonpartisan media organization that informs Texans — and engages with them — about public policy, politics, government and statewide issues.

Guatemalan lawmakers have passed a sweeping new bill mandating up to 10 years of jail time for women who obtain abortions, explicitly banning same-sex marriage and preventing schools from teaching about sexual diversity. The measure, which was approved Tuesday and is expected to be signed into law by Guatemala’s conservative president within weeks, would impose the harshest punishment for abortion of almost any country in Latin America. It bucks the trend toward broadening access to the procedure throughout the region in recent years.

The Idaho House approved legislation Tuesday to make it a felony for a doctor to provide age-appropriate, medically-necessary, best practice gender-affirming care for transgender children.

Newsweek reached out to Superintendent Eggleston and a spokesperson for the school district.According to LGBTMap, Kansas' Gender Identity Policy Tally is low, which is defined as "Laws that explicitly mention "gender identity" or "gender identity and expression" primarily protect or harm transgender people.

I haven't been sleeping well lately, and it is largely Republican Texas Governor Greg Abbott's fault.For some time, Abbott and his cronies in the Legislature have been trying to pass laws against transgender people. He's not had an easy time of it, even calling a total of three special sessions in 2021 to, among other things, bar transgender students from participating in sports programs with their peers and halt health care for trans youth.Without the support of lawmakers, Abbott, as well as Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R), took the matter into their own hands.

With at least 18 out candidates seeking California legislative seats in 2022, LGBTQ leaders are on the cusp of reaching their goal to have 10% of state lawmakers be from the community. In order to do so, the Legislative LGBTQ Caucus needs to grow from its current eight members to 12."I think there is a good chance of getting there," said gay state Senator John Laird (D-Santa Cruz), now in his second year of a four-year term.All 80 Assembly seats are up for grabs as are the 20 even-numbered Senate seats.

Four Bay Area college students are among the latest group awarded Pedro Zamora Young Leaders scholarships from the National AIDS Memorial Grove.The $5,000 scholarships provide financial support for the academic aspirations of young activists working to advance health and social justice in their communities, according to a news release from the AIDS grove, which is located in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park.The scholarship is named in the honor of Zamora, the late AIDS educator, activist, and reality television pioneer who died in 1994 from AIDS-related illness.Two students are from UC Berkeley — Olivia Freidenreich and Peter Pham. Freidenreich is a first year student at Cal and is exploring the intersection between literature, art, and social justice in the College of Letters and Science, according to a news release.

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The Texas Transgender Nondiscrimination Scholars organization sent the following response to Gov. Greg Abbott’s order for Child Protective Services to investigate families accused of providing life-saving care to their transgender children.

an opinion labeling certain types of gender-affirming medical care for transgender children as child abuse. As a result, Amber Briggle, who shared dinner with Paxton and her son in 2016, is one of the people Child Protective Services is investigating, KHOU-TV reported.The situation adds to growing controversy surrounding whether children should receive gender-affirming care such as social transition support, providing puberty blockers, or, in rare cases, more advanced medical procedures like hormone therapy.

Disney's silence on Florida Legislature's "Don't Say Gay" bill, CEO Bob Chapek announced that the company is taking a public stance on the matter and that he has personally called Governor Ron DeSantis to oppose the measure.During Disney's annual shareholder meeting on Friday, Chapek took time to address the controversy before the question-and-answer period, saying, "While [the company has] been strong supporters of the community for decades, I know that many are upset that we did not speak out against the bill.""I called Governor DeSantis this morning to express our disappointment and concern that if legislation becomes law, it could be used to unfairly target gay, lesbian, non-binary and transgender kids and families," the CEO said. "The governor heard our concerns and agreed to meet with me and LGBTQ+ members of our senior team in Florida to discuss ways to address them."Disney has faced widespread criticisms since Chapek declined to condemn the bill, which would ban discussion of "sexual orientation or gender identity" in Florida public schools, earlier this week.On Wednesday, Chapek said that the company had chose not to publicly address the bill in favor of working "behind the scenes" with lawmakers with whom the company has long-standing ties."We were opposed to the bill from the outset, but we chose not to take a public position on it because we thought we could be more effective working behind the scenes engaging directly with lawmakers on both sides of the aisle," the CEO said during the meeting.

investigate all parents who allow their kids to receive such care, asserting that this is a form of child abuse. He based his order on a nonbinding opinion from Attorney General Ken Paxton.