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Two public school districts and several parents have sued the commonwealth in a bid to undo antidiscrimination protections for gay and transgender people in Pennsylvania, saying that the two-year-old regulation is illegal because it goes beyond what lawmakers intended or allowed.

During his joint speech to Congress, President Donald Trump said he seeks to end the “lie that any child is trapped in the wrong body.”

Legislation that aimed to bar transgender women and girls nationwide from participating in school athletic competitions designated for female athletes failed to advance Monday.

Police said they found a piece of tape that said “gay baby jail,” which they determined to be a common video game reference. A convention attracting gamers was taking place at the hotel at the time.

References to transgender people were removed from a National Park Service website for the Stonewall National Monument, the New York City park and visitor center that commemorates a 1969 riot that became a pivotal moment for the LGBTQ+ rights movement.

The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children said it would be removing all references to transgender people from its public materials.

The State Department’s web page providing adoption information to LGBTQI+ prospective parents now addresses only “LGB” people.

The Southeast Asian nation is the third place in Asia to recognize same-sex marriage after Taiwan and Nepal.

A Delaware church pastor told her community that a Pride flag that was slashed by a vandal will continue to be displayed as a symbolic gesture outside the Wilmington church.

Leaders of the Church of the Holy City are reiterating resolve and support for the LGBTQ+ community after someone slashed a pride flag outside the Wilmington, Delaware, church.

President Donald Trump is demanding an apology from the Episcopal bishop of Washington after she asked him to have mercy on the LGBTQ+ community and migrants in the United States illegally during a prayer service marking his inauguration. Trump and Vice President JD Vance attended Tuesday’s service at Washington National Cathedral. Trump criticized the bishop in an overnight post online....

President Donald Trump on Monday signed executive orders proclaiming that the U.S. government will recognize only two sexes, male and female, and ending “radical and wasteful” diversity, equity and inclusion programs inside federal agencies.

Jen Ellis, the Vermont crafter behind Bernie Sanders’ mittens in the iconic photo taken at President Biden’s inauguration in Jan. 2021, shares how the viral moment has changed her life.

Anita Bryant, a former Miss Oklahoma and popular singer who became known over the second half of her life for her outspoken opposition to gay rights, has died. She was 84.

The Pentagon said it will restore the discharge records of 35,000 veterans to “honorable,” ending a class action suit filed more than a year ago by veterans outed under the military’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policies.

The highly anticipated second season of Netflix’s South Korean dystopian thriller is getting criticized for not casting a transgender actor.

Victor Willis said the disco classic has “benefited greatly” from the president-elect’s use and threatened to sue news outlets that refer to it as a “gay anthem.”

Corporations are pulling out of the Human Rights Campaign’s Corporate Equality Index just a few years after celebrating their contributions to LGBTQ+ inclusion.

Several events throughout the city of Philadelphia honored lives lost in acts of anti-transgender violence on this International Day of Transgender Remembrance. NBC10’s Miguel Martinez-Valle reports.