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Sign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. It was near midnight just a couple days before Thanksgiving 2020 when 17-year-old Kayden Asher arrived at yet another temporary home during his yearslong tumble through Texas’ chaotic foster care system. His caseworker …
J.K. Rowling is doubling (tripling? quadrupling?) down on her anti-trans rhetoric—and involving Harry Potter stars Daniel Radcliffe and Emma Watson. The author took to social media to decry a new study on gender-identity services for youth, and while doing so took aim at “celebrity mouthpieces” who, Rowling believes, “cosied up to a movement intent on …
Kansas’ governor on Friday vetoed a proposed ban on gender-affirming care for minors, a measure to require more reporting from abortion providers and what she called a “vague” bill making it a crime to coerce someone into having an abortion. Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly’s actions set up a series of confrontations with the Republican-supermajority Legislature …
After repeated incidents of verbal and online abuse, the owners of a community bookstore in Old Town Monrovia — considered a safe space for BIPOC and LGBTQ+ groups — have announced they will be closing its doors in summer. That is, unless someone from the community is willing to step up. Underdog Bookstore opened its …
Rome — The Vatican has blasted the practices of gender-affirming surgery and maternal surrogacy in a new document, declaring both are inconsistent with God’s plan for human life. The Catholic Church’s document puts both practices on a par with abortion and euthanasia in terms of their perceived negative impact on human dignity. The document, titled …
More than 400 Canadian artists from the worlds of music, film and literature are denouncing what they describe as “alarming and destructive” anti-trans legislation in an open letter released Sunday by music superstars Tegan and Sara. The list of stars who signed the letter includes actor Elliot Page, Great Big Sea frontman Alan Doyle, actress Elisha Cuthbert, folk music …
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Sign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. Despite the air of confidence he typically wore through the halls, 17-year-old Kadence Carter suffered through most days at Mayde Creek High School in Katy. Several of his classmates constantly bullied and misgendered …
Sign up for the We the Texans newsletter to receive twice-monthly updates on our year-long initiative dedicated to boosting civic engagement and chronicling how democracy is experienced in Texas. In a surprise nail-biter, Texas Supreme Court Justice John Devine narrowly survived an unexpectedly heated GOP primary challenge that centered on questions about his judicial ethics. …
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Sign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. HOUSTON — That Senate Bill 14 would pass was not in doubt. The legislation, which would bar gender-transitioning care for children and teens, had universal Republican support and merely awaited final sign-off by …
When a popular “safe space” in Southeast D.C. was facing financial hurdles, the LGBTQ community came together to make sure the bar and café could stay open. As You Are is a LGBTQ community bar and café on Capitol Hill at 500 8th St SE. (WTOP/Dick Uliano) WTOP/Dick Uliano Married co-founders of As You Are, Rach …