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“This is just another attempt by extremist Republican politicians to further their anti-transgender agenda,” U.S. Rep. Mark Takano said.
With calm defiance and procedural precision, Rep. Melanie Stansbury turned a House hearing into a masterclass in how Democrats can confront anti-trans attacks with facts, strategy, and moral clarity.
Rep. Chris Pappas tells The Advocate why he voted for a defense bill that stripped children of military members of access to gender-affirming care.
She demonstrated how all of the suffering Americans are experiencing is because of Donald Trump and not their trans neighbors.
The gay Democrat called her out as she looked on.
Lena Kotler-Wallace tells The Advocate about her forceful removal from a school board meeting after defending her autistic, transgender, and nonbinary children.
Collins shocked many by speaking out against Trump-Musk budget cuts, but that's not enough, and chances are the real Susie is more like convenient fiction, writes John Casey.
Marjorie Taylor Green notoriously displayed explicit images of Hunter Biden during a hearing in 2023.
Micah Leroy, who ran the account known as “Disabled Trans Boy” on Instagram, became the subject of a right-wing hate campaign after he posted a video celebrating his top surgery.
The anti-trans Republican from Georgia took objection to a video posted by Libs of TikTok showing McBride reading to children from the book I Am Jazz.
MTG continued to demonstrate the depths of her ignorance outside the Supreme Court by complaining children are receiving a treatment developed specifically for children.
While Democrats stumble defending the trans community, Republicans will be opportunistic in escalating their attacks, writes John Casey.
Representative-elect McBride stated in response to the question on trans people and Democratic losses, "The party that was focused on culture wars and trans people was the Republican Party."
But Democrats and independents were able to turn back these efforts.
“I think people don’t understand the emotional and psychological toll it takes on us as openly gay members of Congress that we are in those committee hearings when people are saying horrible things about us,” Balint says.
Her anti-LGBTQ+ rant was responding to Pete Buttigieg’s mocking Donald Trump for declaring himself the “father of IVF.”
She claims that Democrats are aiming hurricanes at Republicans.
The transportation secretary has appeared on television networks to provide truthful information after the spread of unprecedented lies.
The out U.S. transportation secretary talked about why Republican disinformation about hurricane relief is so dangerous for disaster victims.
The conservative is mad that FEMA is using Hurricane Helene relief resources to "house migrants." Her evidence? A discussion panel from a year and a half ago.
The South Carolina Republican senator, who has consistently voted for anti-LGBTQ+ policies, has denied being queer.
