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I talked with Molloy about the far right threats to the LGBTIQ community during Pride Month, including the current cultural climate impacts the LGBTIQ community, how the right-wing media uses anti-LGBTIQ rhetoric and narratives, how far right extremists groups target LGBTIQ events during Pride Month.
Sources and Notes:
Thirty-one members of the white nationalist Patriot Front arrested near an Idaho Pride event [NPR]
“Law enforcement arrested 31 members of a white nationalist organization known as the Patriot Front near a Pride event in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, on Saturday, on a charge of conspiracy to riot. The men were packed into a U-Haul truck and detained a short distance away from the gathering, which was being held at public park.”
All the ways Trump wants to exclude trans people from public life [The 19th]
“Federal agencies are carrying out executive orders from President Donald Trump that all share a common goal: removing transgender and nonbinary people from public life wherever possible. Through restricting access to accurate federal identity documents, threatening to withhold hospitals’ federal funding over gender-affirming care, and erasing trans history on federal websites and in schools, the Trump White House is using the federal government as a tool to make it harder for trans Americans to live openly — and safely — without fear of harassment and discrimination.”
GOP lawmakers seek to ban Pride flags, stirring tensions with liberal cities [Stateline]
“In recent weeks, both Idaho and Utah have enacted bans that prohibit Pride flags from being displayed on government property, pitting lawmakers in the Republican-dominated legislatures against the more progressive capitals of Boise and Salt Lake City, where the flags are often flown at city hall… Lawmakers in Florida, Texas and at least 13 other states are considering similar flag prohibitions, said Logan Casey, director of policy research with the Movement Advancement Project, which studies LGBTQ+ rights. The flag bills go beyond symbolism, Casey said. Rather, they are part of a broad and coordinated legislative attack on LGBTQ+ people that seeks to strip them of rights and erase or make difficult their participation in public life.”
Utah Report on ‘Medical Evidence Review of Hormonal Transgender Treatment’
Utah lawmakers’ own study found gender-affirming care benefits trans youth. Will they lift the treatment ban? [The Salt Lake Tribune]
Utah lawmakers said gender-affirming care is harmful to kids. Their own study contradicts that claim. [NBC News]
Utah Study on Trans Youth Care Extremely Inconvenient for Politicians Who Ordered It [Mother Jones]
Oops! Study Ordered by Utah Republicans Finds Gender-Affirming Care Benefits Trans Youth [Them]
Systematic Medical Evidence Review of Hormonal Transgender Treatment Report [Read Full Report]
Mapping the Far Right Groups Targeting LGBTIQ Events During Pride Month
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