During a meeting of the governors at the White House, President Donald Trump threatened to withhold federal funds from the state of Maine after Democratic governor Janet Mills suggested she would not comply with the executive order of transgender athletes. The meeting saw Trump addressing the room to discuss his policies, including the ban, during […]

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Transgender actress Hunter Schafer has shown off her brand-new passport, which now appears to list her gender marker as “M” rather than female. In a TikTok video posted yesterday (February 21), Schafer showed off her new passport which has the “M” marker despite selecting female when she filled out the paperwork. She started the video […]

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The number of Americans who identify within the LGBTQ+ community has hit a record high, new statistics show. A Gallup report released on Thursday (20 February), has shown that the number of people identifying within the LGBT+ community has reached a high of 9.3 per cent, up from 7.6 per cent in 2023 and 7.2 […]

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Author Julianne Moore children’s book Freckleface Strawberry is being reprinted after the Trump administration’s attempt to ban the title from some schools led to a “deluge of orders”.  Moore initially took to Instagram on 16 February to share her “shock” at Freckleface Strawberry being banned “from schools run by the Department of Defense”. The book, […]

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