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New York’s Governor has signed a bill requiring all of the state’s single-use restrooms to be labeled as gender-neutral. The new law received huge support in both the legislature and from more than 100 LGBTQ groups.
A recent analysis of Amazon’s charity fundraising program, Amazon Smile, revealed a number of anti-LGBTQ and anti-abortion groups are benefiting from the charity. Amazon Smile has raised more than 215 million dollars for non-profits including those anti-LGBTQ groups.
In California, the City of West Hollywood City Council unanimously approved painting a crosswalk with the colors of the transgender flag and to add black and brown stripes to the existing rainbow-colored crosswalks as a way to support both the transgender community and LGBTQ people of color.
Outbeat News is a service of NorCal Public Media and can be heard as part of Outbeat Radio, Sunday at 7 pm on KRCB FM Radio 91.
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Switzerland’s parliament has passed two key pieces of legislation; one will provide same-sex marriage to LGBTQ couples, the other allows transgender people to more easily change their name and gender marker on government documents.
In the U.S., a judge has ordered the state of Wisconsin corrections department to provide sex reassignment surgery to a trans woman diagnosed with gender dysphoria.
Meanwhile, in California, a gay couple in Eureka discovered their Christmas decorations were destroyed and local police are investigating it as a hate crime.
Outbeat News is a service of NorCal Public Media and can be heard as part of Outbeat Radio, Sunday at 7 pm on KRCB FM Radio 91.
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President-Elect Joe Biden nominated Pete Buttigieg as secretary of transportation. If confirmed, he will become the first “out” member of a president’s cabinet. The U.S. Supreme Court handed another victory to LGBTQ civil rights advocates in a case involving the rights of same-sex parents to be listed on a child’s birth certificate.
Meanwhile, in California, Senator Scott Wiener is growing impatient with state health officials who have not complied with a Senate Bill he wrote requiring the collection of COVID-19 data from within the LGBTQ community.
(Photo: Pete Buttigieg - Lucy Hewett for NPR)
The U.S. Supreme Court handed a victory to transgender rights advocates last week by rejecting a lawsuit brought by parents of students at an Oregon school.
In Texas, a high school student is taking on his high school after he was suspended for wearing nail polish, a ruling the student says discriminates against him because girls are allowed to wear polish on their nails.
Meanwhile, in California, the oldest and youngest people elected to the state legislature were sworn in last week and both are part of the LGBTQ caucus. They were sworn in by California’s newest Supreme Court Justice who is also the first out gay man to serve on the state’s high court.
(Photo: Susan Walsh / AP file)
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