LGBTQ+ News Weekly Update

Week of April 12-18

Monday, April 13 - “A Pride flag will again be displayed at New York's Stonewall monument after the Trump administration settled a lawsuit brought by LGBT and other groups following its removal in February.”

Monday, April 13 - “One Idaho family said they've hit a "breaking point," and are planning to leave Idaho after Governor Brad Little signed House Bill 752, making it a crime for anyone to use bathrooms that don't align with their sex assigned at birth.”

Monday, April 13 - “Some doctors in the military are being told to not see patients. Pilots are grounded. A police investigator was forced to abandon her cases. An aircraft carrier headed to war without a critical nuclear reactor supervisor. Those professionals and thousands of others have been pulled from military jobs for one reason: They are transgender.”

Tuesday, April 14 - “As Tennessee State Senators came to the floor on Monday afternoon, about two dozen activists formed a wall in the hallway, singing to the lawmakers.

‘Whether you’re cisgender

Whether you’re trans

Equal protection is the law of this land.’”

Wednesday, April 15 - “A Russian news outlet, SarBC, has been fined by a Russian court over a written review of Heated Rivalry, after authorities claimed it spread “LGBT propaganda”.

Wednesday, April 15 - “Tennessee will now recognize June as ‘Nuclear Family Month,’ a move some critics claim is less about family and more about diminishing the LGBTQ community during Pride Month.”

Thursday, April 16 - “The latest clash between California and President Donald Trump over abortion and gender-affirming care could soon leave doctors caught between state and federal law.”

Thursday, April 16 - “UN experts are expressing concern about the adoption of a law in Belarus that imposes penalties for disseminating information the state considers "propaganda" about consensual same-sex relationships, medical care for transgender people, or the desire to have children.”

Friday, April 17 - “One of the most iconic LGBTQ couples in sports is no more after a decade together. Sue Bird and Megan Rapinoe announced in a joint Instagram post that they have decided to separate after a decade together and an engagement that began in 2020.”

Friday, April 17 - “A U.S. appeals court on Friday declined to block President Donald Trump's administration from transferring 18 transgender ​women in federal custody to men's prisons, but gave a federal judge who said the move was unconstitutional another ‌chance to do so.”

Friday, April 17 - “Children are the “low-hanging fruit” in a longer effort to end gender-affirming care for all Americans, an official at a Trump administration-aligned thinktank recently said.”