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Transgender Day of Remembrance. Remembering Stonewall riots 50 years later: "We will be out, loud and proud" /watch?v=fWy-B4Y-DfY. Anti-LGBTQ hate groups on the rise in U.S., report warns. The number of anti-LGBTQ hate groups soared 43 percent last year, rising from 49 groups in 2018 to 70 in 2019, according to a recent report from the Southern Poverty Law Center.

Anti-LGBTQ hate groups on the rise in U.S., report warns

Hate on the Rise After Trump’s Election. Since Donald Trump won the Presidential election, there has been a dramatic uptick in incidents of racist and xenophobic harassment across the country.

Hate on the Rise After Trump’s Election

The Southern Poverty Law Center has reported that there were four hundred and thirty-seven incidents of intimidation between the election, on November 8th, and November 14th, targeting blacks and other people of color, Muslims, immigrants, the L.G.B.T. community, and women. One woman in Colorado told the S.P.L.C. that her twelve-year-old daughter was approached by a boy who said, “Now that Trump is President, I’m going to shoot you and all the blacks I can find.” Anti-gay hate crimes on the rise, FBI says, and they likely undercount. Martin Boyce was at the Stonewall Inn in New York when riots broke out in June 1969, a moment seen as the birth of the LGBTQ rights movement.

Anti-gay hate crimes on the rise, FBI says, and they likely undercount

USA TODAY Friday marked 50 years since protesters fought back against a police raid of New York's Stonewall Inn and catalyzed the modern gay rights movement. But despite decades of progress, members of the LGBTQ community across the country are experiencing targeted acts of violence. Hate crimes against LGBTQ people have been on a slight rise over the past three years, according to FBI data. Mike Pence and ‘Conversion Therapy’: A History. Since Gov.

Mike Pence and ‘Conversion Therapy’: A History

Mike Pence was chosen as Donald J. Trump’s running mate in July, he has faced complaints from groups critical of his record on gay and transgender rights, who said he has long been an opponent of the gains made by the L.G.B.T. community in recent years. Mr. Pence has been particularly dogged by accusations that he is a supporter of “conversion therapy,” the practice of trying to change someone’s sexual orientation or gender identity. It has been discredited by the medical establishment and denounced by gay and transgender groups. Mr. Interdire les thérapies de conversion.

Two-spirit. Urban American neologism for gender variant people in some Indigenous North American cultures, since 1990 Two-Spirit (also two spirit or, occasionally, twospirited) is a modern, pan-Indian, umbrella term used by some Indigenous North Americans to describe Native people in their communities who fulfill a traditional third-gender (or other gender-variant) ceremonial and social role in their cultures.[1][2][3] The term two-spirit was created in 1990 at the Indigenous lesbian and gay international gathering in Winnipeg, and "specifically chosen to distinguish and distance Native American/First Nations people from non-Native peoples.

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Terminology[edit] Origin and evolution of the term two-spirit[edit] Restricting care for transgender teens would be a terrible mistake. (14) Patricia Arquette Advocates For Trans Rights At Emmys After Sister's Death: 'They're Human Beings' How British Feminism Became Anti-Trans. In America, however, TERFism today is a scattered community in its death throes, mourning the loss of its last spaces, like the Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival, which ended in 2015.

How British Feminism Became Anti-Trans

And so the strangely virulent form that TERFism takes in Britain today, and its influence within the British establishment, requires its own separate, and multipronged, explanation. Ms. Parker and Ms. Long may not know it, but they’re likely influenced by the legacy of the British “Skepticism” movement of the 1990s and early 2000s, which mobilized against the perceived spread of postmodernism in English universities as well as homeopathy and so-called “junk science.” Hence, the impulse among TERFs to proclaim their “no-nonsense” character; witness the billboard Ms.

It’s also worth noting that the obsession with supposed “biological realities” of people like Ms. ILGA World map sexual orientation laws December2019. Maps - Sexual orientation laws. Maps | sexual orientation laws Every year, along with the State-Sponsored Homophobia report, ILGA World publishes also maps of sexual orientation laws in the world. A useful tool for LGB human rights defenders, these images expose the arbitrariness of persecutory laws, and starkly indicate the absence of positive law in most parts of the world.

Pence, Buttigieg and the debate over ‘conversion therapy’ Trump's Transgender Military Ban Calls Me Unfit for Service. (14) Transgender Rights: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO) YouTube. Trump’s Rollback of Transgender Rights Extends Through Entire Government. The shifts in federal policy come at a time when harassment and violence against transgender people are increasing.

Trump’s Rollback of Transgender Rights Extends Through Entire Government

New hate crimes data released in mid-November by the F.B.I. showed that hate crimes dipped slightly in 2018, but crimes directed at lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people nudged up almost 6 percent. Crimes against transgender people leapt 34 percent, to 142 in 2018 from 106 in 2017, and those are only the crimes reported to the police or recorded as an attack on a transgender victim.

At least 22 transgender people have been fatally shot or killed in 2019, according to the Human Rights Campaign. Nearly all of them were black women. Some fear that the Trump administration’s policies could be interpreted by some as a signal that such attacks are acceptable. “The rhetoric that these policy changes promote is that we aren’t people, but some toxic plague trying to destroy America’s family values,” said Tiara Kelley, a black transgender woman living in Colorado.

US cities hit record highs in LGBT+ protections, research shows. NEW YORK, Nov 19 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - A record number of U.S. cities earned perfect scores this year for LGBT+ legal protections, extending their laws and policies to include more gay and transgender people, a leading rights group said on Tuesday.

US cities hit record highs in LGBT+ protections, research shows

This year 88 cities scored 100 points on the Municipal Equality Index, up from 78 cities last year and 11 cities when the index began in 2012, the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), the largest U.S. advocacy group for the LGBT+ community said.