Transgender

Rep. Skyler Wheeler (R-Orange City) Iowa state Rep. Skyler Wheeler is furious that the transgender flag was flown for 3 to 5 minutes at the Iowa Capitol for the Transgender Day of Remembrance this week. Wheeler’s now on board with legislation proposed by fellow Republican Rep. Dean Fisher to limit what flags are allowed to fly at the Capitol. Iowa is reportedly the first Capitol in the nation to fly the transgender flag. Said an incensed Wheeler to the Iowa Standard: “I found out the same time as most Iowans....

(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || ).push({}); Iowa Republican state Rep. Skyler Wheeler complained about the transgender flag flying over the state Capitol building in Des Moines last week for Transgender Day of Remembrance, calling it an act of “political aggression” from “the Rainbow Jihad.” “It’s another way that the Rainbow Jihad continues to give those of us who don’t agree with them a finger in the eye and push their beliefs on us,” Wheeler said, according to an interview with conservative outlet The Iowa Standard published on Saturday. The lawmaker, who...

(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || ).push({}); Republican State Representative Stewart Jones (S.C.) filed a bill on Wednesday that would ban a variety of medical treatments for transgender children, potentially even antidepressants for gender dysphoria. House bill 4716, known as the “Youth Gender Reassignment Prevention Act,” prohibits doctors from performing any “gender reassignment medical treatment” on a person under 18. The bill would also ban hormones and puberty blockers, a reversible treatment that stops the physical changes associated with puberty. It also prohibits any treatment “to align the patient’s appearance or physical...

Gay conservative commentator and talk show host Dave Rubin, who last month blamed California wildfires on public utilities hiring LGBTQ people, invited Donald Trump Jr. to his show Rubin Report, and told the president’s spawn that he’d be fine if Don Jr. called him a “fag”. Asked Donald Jr. during the exchange: “As a gay man, what are your thoughts as it relates to, outspoken activist homosexual people getting owned by the trans movement like ‘it’s not enough’ after the years that you guys fought to get the equality that...

A non-binary person has claimed that they were turned away from a plasma donation centre in Minnesota because their gender identity does not align with the sex they were assigned at birth. The Minnesota Department of Human Rights (MDHR) has filed a lawsuit claiming that CSL Plasma in Minnesota denied Charlie Edgar the opportunity to donate plasma because of their gender identity. Edgar said that they went to a CSL Plasma clinic in September where they were asked about their medical history. They said they answered all the questions required...

(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || ).push({}); Donald Trump Jr. used his Wednesday morning appearance on CBS This Morning to spew problematic rhetoric about transgender and gender-nonconforming athletes. While promoting his new book Triggered: How the Left Thrives on Hate and Wants to Silence Us, President Trump’s eldest son pushed several false right-wing talking points about the House’s impeachment inquiry before turning his attention to the LGBT community. When asked what he’s doing to personally doing to heal the country’s political divide, Trump Jr. angrily lashed out at trans athletes. (adsbygoogle =...