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24 05, 2019

Trump Rolls back Transgender Healthcare Protections

By JRL Charts|2025-09-03T12:20:07-07:00May 24th, 2019|Categories: LGBT Politics|Tags: Department of Health and Human Services, director of HHS Civil Rights Office, HHS, LGBT Health News, lgbt politics, LGBTQ Health, Roger Severino, rollback Transgender Healthcare Protections, Trump administration anti-Transgender proposal|

WASHINGTON, D.C. — (05-24-19) — The Trump administration Friday, announced the cancellation of an Obama-era policy that prohibited health care providers from discriminating against transgender patients. This is latest attack and rollback of federal protections for transgender Americans. The Department of Health and Human Services announced today that they are rewriting an Obamacare regulation that [...]

23 05, 2019

Utah Commissioner Nathan Ivie Comes Out Gay on Facebook

By JRL Charts|2019-05-23T10:34:10-07:00May 23rd, 2019|Categories: LGBT Politics|Tags: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, comes out gay, I'm Gay in Facebook Video, lgbt politics, Utah Commissioner Nathan Ivie|

SALT LAKE CITY, UT — (05-23-19) — Republican Utah Commissioner Nathan Ivie, comes out as Gay in new Facebook Video. Utah Commissioner Nathan Ivie says that it took him more than 20 years to come to terms with being a gay man. That fear has vanished as Utah Commissioner Nathan Ivie on Wednesday, uploaded a [...]

22 05, 2019

HUD OK’s Discrimination Against Homeless Transgender People

By JRL Charts|2025-08-10T16:16:19-07:00May 22nd, 2019|Categories: LGBT Politics|Tags: anti-LGBTQ proposal, discrimination against homeless Transgender people, Homelessness Crisis, HUD Secretary Ben Carson, HUD Spring Rule List, lgbt politics|

WASHINGTON, D.C — (05-22-19) — The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), is pushing to roll back protections instituted by the Obama administration, for homeless transgender people, by enabling HUD-funded providers of shelters to consider a person’s sex or gender identification in determining whether they can be admitted. The new anti-LGBTQ proposal that was [...]

21 05, 2019

Chick-fil-A: Supporting Anti-LGBTQ Policies Is A ‘Higher Calling’

By JRL Charts|2019-05-21T15:37:45-07:00May 21st, 2019|Categories: LGBT Politics|Tags: a higher calling, Chick-fil-A, lgbt politics, Save Chick-fil-A Bill, Texas state assembly|

DALLAS, TX — (05-21-19) — Chick-fil-A has gained a reputation for supporting anti-LGBTQ politics and now that the state of Texas has passed the 'Save Chick-fil-A Bill", aimed to protect them for discriminating against the LGBTQ Community, the company says their support for anti-LGBTQ policies is a "Higher Calling". Rodney Bullard, president of the Chick-fil-A [...]

15 05, 2019

Pat Robertson – Passing LGBTQ Equality Act Will Destroy America

By JRL Charts|2025-08-16T21:12:50-07:00May 15th, 2019|Categories: LGBT Politics|Tags: christian broadcasting network, congressional equality caucus, Equality Act, lgbt equality laws, lgbt politics, LGBT Politics USA, LGBTQ+ equality, president Donald Trump, right wing watch, sanctity of America, Televangelist Pat Robertson, U.S Senate, US. Congress|

LEXINGTON, VA — (05-15-19) — Televangelist Pat Robertson had the nerve to preach that passing the pro-LGBTQ Equality Act, will destroy America. The 80 year-old televangelist made the remarks last Tuesday, saying that the upcoming pro-LGBTQ rights measure could ruin 'the sanctity of America.' “If you want to bring the judgment of God on this [...]

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