LGBTQ+ advocacy groups and student activist leaders spoke out including Jack Petocz who had organized and led the student statewide protests
Also on Tuesday, a state Senate committee advanced a bill to ban transgender girls from playing girls sports in middle and high school
Williams Institute, a public policy research institute based at UCLA School of Law focuses on sexual orientation & gender identities issues
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
The country has been criticised by international human rights groups as discriminating against LGBTQ+ people
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
