anti-trans

The Pope has accepted the resignation of the Catholic archbishop of Philadelphia, Charles Chaput, who believes that being gay is “disordered” and a choice. All Catholic bishops and archbishops are required to hand in their resignation when they turn 75, but the Pope can either accept their resignation or reject it and allow them to stay on. The New York Times reported: “In this case, the Pope did not wait long before saying yes.” Chaput is infamously anti-LGBT+ and, although the Catholic church is not generally inclusive of LGBT+ people,...

A Trump-appointed judge has denied a trans woman the right to have her legal name and correct pronouns used in her incarceration records, and for prison guards to refer to her with she/her pronouns. Kathrine Nicole Jett pleaded guilty to attempted receipt of child pornography in 2012 and was sentenced to 15 years in prison. She came out as trans in 2015. Judge Kyle Duncan of the US Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals issued an 11-page ruling on Thursday, January 16, in which he repeatedly deadnamed Jett and wrote that...

An anti-trans gay journalist has gone on a rant in a conservative online magazine because he cannot comprehend the concept of “they” as a singular pronoun. Chad Felix Greene is a regular contributor to the conservative site The Federalist, and his portfolio includes articles such as ‘If we don’t ban fortune tellers, we shouldn’t ban “gay conversion therapy”‘ and ‘I crunched the data. The violence ‘epidemic’ against transgender people is a myth’. But on Tuesday, November 12 he took on another issue: grammar. Greene wrote an article attacking a decision...

A proposed new regulation would strip all protections for LGBTQ people from all programs administered by the U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services, and give special rights to entities or programs that are religious or “faith-based.” HHS, under the direction of Secretary Alex Azar, has a budget of $1.2 trillion affecting the health and well-being, directly or indirectly, of nearly every person in the country. Lambda Legal says the proposed rule “would invite HHS grantees receiving taxpayer funds to discriminate based on sexual orientation, gender identity, or religion.” This...