LGBTQ+ News Weekly Update

Week of March 22 - 28

The Stories: 

Monday, March 23 - “A lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of Kansas’ new law regulating bathroom use in government buildings and forcing Kansans to hold documents reflecting their biological sex at birth won’t have its next hearing until September.”

Monday, March 23 - “The Idaho Senate is one of the last stops for a bill that would criminalize “willfully” entering public and government bathrooms and changing rooms designated for another sex.”

Tuesday, March 24 - “A group of California female inmates can’t proceed with a lawsuit to undo a state law requiring officials to transfer people who identify as transgender, nonbinary, or intersex from men’s prisons to women’s prisons, a federal judge said.”

Tuesday, March 24 - “Some Democratic state lawmakers are pushing for more accommodations in the workplace for transgender employees. State Representatives Sean Camacho and Junie Joseph introduced the "Right to Be Out at Work" bill.” 

Tuesday, March 24 - “The organisation that oversees girl guide groups in the UK has said transgender girls must leave the organisation by September.” 

Tuesday, March 24 - Olive Garrison has been teaching high school history in Bakersfield for the past eight years. Born and raised in the Central Valley city, Garrison has incorporated LGBTQ history into lessons, from the Lavender Scare, a moral panic in which thousands of gay workers in the 1940s and ’50s were driven out of government service jobs, to the struggles of queer Americans during the Great Depression.”

Wednesday, March 25 - “A new bill would require gender clinics to report certain patient statistics to the Tennessee Department of Health to be posted publicly — including their age, sex, county and the medications they’re prescribed — which some LGBTQ advocates have argued would essentially create a registry of transgender people in the state.”

Wednesday, March 25 - “A New York City-based nonprofit has launched a billboard campaign to support trans Kansans with information about how to access gender-affirming care.”

Thursday, March 26 - “Of more than 500 federal databases affected by Trump’s myriad executive orders, nearly three quarters were revised because of the Defending Women order alone. Most of the cases involved removing trans-inclusive gender identity options from survey forms, leaving people to choose between male or female.”

Thursday, March 26 - “Idaho lawmakers are considering a bill that would make it a crime for transgender people to use the bathroom that matches their gender identity – even inside privately owned businesses.”

Thursday, March 26 - “Over 100 human rights, sports and scientific groups have criticised the International Olympic Committee’s new gender eligibility guidelines as “a blunt and discriminatory response that is not supported by science and violates international human rights law”.

Thursday, March 26 - “Tennessee lawmakers could soon track the number of transgender patients seeking gender-affirming care.”

Friday, March 27 - “President Donald Trump has falsely claimed to have won “the gay vote” during the 2024 presidential election, despite only picking up 12 percent of support from the LGBT+ community.”

Friday, March 27 - “Idaho lawmakers passed a sweeping bathroom ban Friday, approving legislation that would make it a crime for transgender people to use the bathroom that matches their gender identity, even inside privately owned businesses.”

Final Thoughts: 

At the beginning of the year, we launched monthly LGBTQ+ news rundowns to consolidate news from multiple outlets into one place. In March, we tested a new model: weekly LGBTQ+ news updates instead of monthly. Now we want to hear from you—let us know which newsletter format you prefer: weekly or monthly. 

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