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Media Guide: Reporting on Book Bannings and School Censorship
https://www.glaad.org/blog/media-guide-reporting-book-bannings-and-school-censorship
... were largely targeting books by or about "gay, queer, transgender, Black, Indigenous, persons of color, those with ... also links sex education to CRT and has lobbied against transgender rights in schools and elsewhere. Its PAC, ... Act, and campaigns that oppose healthcare coverage for transgender medical care. MASSRESISTANCE: A Southern Poverty ...
December 6, 2021 | Mary Emily O'Hara, Rapid Response Manager
Big Wins for LGBTQ Local Candidates Balance Prominent Losses on Election Day 2021
https://www.glaad.org/blog/big-wins-lgbtq-local-candidates-balance-prominent-losses-election-day-2021
... opposition to both marriage equality and protections for transgender students) was elected governor of Virginia last ... a swing vote bellwether), other nonbinary candidates and transgender men won history-making elections in nearby ... the Bozeman City Commission. Ohio elected its first-ever transgender official when Dion Manley won a position on the ...
November 3, 2021 | Mary Emily O'Hara, Rapid Response Manager
Back To School With Pride and Defiance: Students Rally To Defend LGBTQ Teachers and Pride Flags
https://www.glaad.org/blog/back-school-pride-and-defiance-students-rally-defend-lgbtq-teachers-and-pride-flags
... administration's many public declarations of support for transgender students, specifically, send a clear message to ...
September 10, 2021 | Mary Emily O'Hara, Rapid Response Manager
GLAAD AND RESPECTABILITY HIGHLIGHT AT LEAST 23 OUT LGBTQ PARALYMPIC ATHLETES AHEAD OF GAMES, A NEW RECORD
https://www.glaad.org/releases/glaad-and-respectability-highlight-least-23-out-lgbtq-paralympic-athletes-ahead-games-new
GLAAD, the world’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) media advocacy organization, is ... LGBTQ people live with one or more disabilities. For transgender people the numbers are higher: while one in four ... or bisexual) in the U.S. have a disability, two in five transgender adults identify as disabled. Further research ...
August 18, 2021 | Mary Emily O'Hara, Rapid Response Manager
How Out Olympians Used the Tokyo Games as a Platform for LGBTQ Acceptance
https://www.glaad.org/blog/how-out-olympians-used-tokyo-games-platform-lgbtq-acceptance
... to its listings. And Tokyo marked the first games where transgender athletes had qualified for competition, 17 years ... fairly and accurately and avoid perpetuating myths around transgender athlete participation. That guide was present at ... Hubbard the Olympic ordeal is finally over. Pioneering transgender athlete hopes to return to anonymity. ...
August 10, 2021 | Mary Emily O'Hara, Rapid Response Manager
GLAAD RESPONDS TO LUKE PROKOP’S COMING OUT AS GAY, A FIRST FOR THE NATIONAL HOCKEY LEAGUE
https://www.glaad.org/releases/glaad-responds-luke-prokop%E2%80%99s-coming-out-gay-first-national-hockey-league
  GLAAD, the world’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) media advocacy organization, is ... all previous Olympic Games, and including the first out transgender athletes to participate. Outsports is continually ... Washington Spirit soccer star Kumi Yokoyama came out as transgender in June, and described a strong pressure to ...
July 19, 2021 | Mary Emily O'Hara, Rapid Response Manager
GLAAD, ATHLETE ALLY AND PRIDE HOUSE TOKYO RELEASE GUIDE FOR JOURNALISTS COVERING LGBTQ ATHLETES AND ISSUES AT THE SUMMER OLYMPICS AND PARALYMPICS
https://www.glaad.org/releases/glaad-athlete-ally-and-pride-house-tokyo-release-guide-journalists-covering-lgbtq-athletes
... GLAAD, the world’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) media advocacy organization, ... 2020 will also make history as the first in which out transgender athletes will participate. The Olympics have had policies to include transgender athletes in all Olympic sports since 2004. The ...
July 19, 2021 | Mary Emily O'Hara, Rapid Response Manager
GLAAD, Athlete Ally, and Pride House Tokyo Release Media Guide for Covering LGBTQ Athletes at the 2020 Olympics and Paralympics
https://www.glaad.org/blog/glaad-athlete-ally-and-pride-house-tokyo-release-media-guide-covering-lgbtq-athletes-2020
... pandemic, it is also the first Olympic Games for which out transgender athletes have fully qualified under standards ... and harmful political attacks that seek to shut transgender people out of sports, the emergence of trans ... and accurate press coverage and to show the world that transgender people—and LGBTQ people in general—are as ...
July 16, 2021 | Mary Emily O'Hara, Rapid Response Manager
Guide For Journalists: The Supreme Court’s Fulton v. Philadelphia Ruling This June
https://www.glaad.org/blog/guide-journalists-supreme-courts-fulton-v-philadelphia-ruling-june-0
... of youth in foster care are LGBTQ and about 5 percent are transgender. That’s an LGBTQ population about three times ... for draft legislation that informed a wave of anti-transgender “bathroom bills” and was founded by members ... Freedom for All Americans, Movement Advancement Project, Transgender Law Center, more Brief in support of the city ...
June 2, 2021 | Mary Emily O'Hara, Rapid Response Manager
Demi Lovato's nonbinary revelation is important in more ways than one
https://www.glaad.org/blog/demi-lovatos-nonbinary-revelation-important-more-ways-one
... sexual orientation. Some people identify as nonbinary and transgender, while others don't claim the trans label. Some ...
May 20, 2021 | Mary Emily O'Hara, Rapid Response Manager
Joint Statement from GLAAD and Athlete Ally in response to NCAA championships in states with anti-trans sports bans
https://www.glaad.org/releases/joint-statement-glaad-and-athlete-ally-response-ncaa-championships-states-anti-trans-sports
... championship sites for 2021 include schools in states with transgender athlete bans. This coincides with news that ... potential sites also include states which have passed transgender athlete bans. The states with anti-trans sports ... Baseball championships in states with legislation banning transgender student-athletes from participation,” said ...
May 17, 2021 | Mary Emily O'Hara, Rapid Response Manager
Guide for Journalists: Reporting On Anti-Trans State Legislation
https://www.glaad.org/blog/guide-journalists-reporting-anti-trans-state-legislation
... of state legislature introductions of bills that target transgender people, primarily with a focus on trans youth. As ... 121 bills have been proposed around the country targeting transgender people and youth. That includes 36 healthcare ... been proposed this session—most of them targeting the transgender community.   [Note: the number of bills changes ...
April 14, 2021 | Mary Emily O'Hara, Rapid Response Manager
GLAAD STATEMENT ON DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT (HUD) BARRING ANTI-LGBTQ DISCRIMINATION IN HOUSING
https://www.glaad.org/releases/glaad-statement-department-housing-and-urban-development-hud-barring-anti-lgbtq
... identity, effectively allowing shelters to turn away transgender people. In September, GLAAD wrote a letter to the ...
February 11, 2021 | Mary Emily O'Hara, Rapid Response Manager
Trans Kids Face New Attacks in State Legislatures: Anti-LGBTQ groups take the fight from bathrooms to the doctor’s office and athletic teams
https://www.glaad.org/blog/trans-kids-face-new-attacks-state-legislatures-anti-lgbtq-groups-take-fight-bathrooms-doctor%E2%80%99s
... it is now almost entirely committed to attacks on transgender Americans. Especially, and most insidiously, on ... advantage” held by trans women over cisgender women. Transgender athletes have been able to compete on NCAA ...
January 27, 2021 | Mary Emily O'Hara, Rapid Response Manager

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