LGBTQ+ advocacy groups and student activist leaders spoke out including Jack Petocz who had organized and led the student statewide protests
"Social media companies committed to maintaining safety for LGBTQ people should be working to improve hate speech policies not deleting ones"
Also on Tuesday, a state Senate committee advanced a bill to ban transgender girls from playing girls sports in middle and high school
GLAAD leads coalition in second protest of New York Times still asking after two months: “Why won’t you meet with trans community leaders?”
Kicked out, surviving by living on park benches & truck stops, these kids face a terrifying reality of discrimination, isolation, & violence
A bill that would have forced the outing of trans students introduced by two California Republican legislators is dead for the year
Florida's largest civil and human rights groups issued the warning as a result of the policies of Republican Governor Ron DeSantis
Democrats say children are already protected under existing statute from inappropriate material and that this bill will harm trans people
"We have people that live among us today on planet Earth that are happy to display themselves as if they were mutants from another planet"
Public school teachers do not have the right to misgender a trans student & religious accommodation could not justify the harm to students
