Fact Sheets | GLAAD https://glaad.org GLAAD rewrites the script for LGBTQ acceptance. Thu, 17 Apr 2025 21:54:54 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8 https://media.glaad.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/20110814/cropped-glaad-cyan-icon-32x32.png Fact Sheets | GLAAD https://glaad.org 32 32 REPORTER GUIDE & FACT SHEET: BRAIDWOOD, THE SUPREME COURT CASE TARGETING PREP, IMPACTING PREVENTIVE HEALTHCARE FOR AMERICANS https://glaad.org/releases/reporter-guide-fact-sheet-braidwood-the-supreme-court-case-targeting-prep-preventive-healthcare-for-americans/ Mon, 14 Apr 2025 20:01:36 +0000 https://glaad.org/?post_type=releases&p=933587 On Monday, April 21st, the U.S. Supreme Court is set to hear oral arguments in Kennedy v. Braidwood Management, Inc., a case that could strip away a critical piece of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), which mandates insurance companies cover preventive healthcare services at no out-of-pocket cost.  The plaintiffs in this case are four individuals [...]

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]]> Fact Sheet: Mahmoud v. Taylor, the U.S. Supreme Court Case About Banning LGBTQ-inclusive Books https://glaad.org/fact-sheet-mahmoud-v-taylor-banning-lgbtq-books/ https://glaad.org/fact-sheet-mahmoud-v-taylor-banning-lgbtq-books/#respond Thu, 10 Apr 2025 18:03:05 +0000 https://glaad.org/?p=933502 The Supreme Court of the United States is scheduled to hear oral arguments in Mahmoud v. Taylor on Tuesday, April 22, 2025. Mahmoud v. Taylor is about a small number of LGBTQ-inclusive children’s books included in the classrooms of Montgomery County (Maryland) Public Schools. The books were chosen and evaluated by education professionals. Six parents (three couples) sued [...]

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]]> https://glaad.org/fact-sheet-mahmoud-v-taylor-banning-lgbtq-books/feed/ 0 Fact Sheet: Opponents of Transgender People Invited as White House “Special Guests” Used to Further Spread Disinformation https://glaad.org/fact-sheet-opponents-of-transgender-people-invited-as-white-house-special-guests-used-to-further-spread-disinformation/ https://glaad.org/fact-sheet-opponents-of-transgender-people-invited-as-white-house-special-guests-used-to-further-spread-disinformation/#respond Tue, 04 Mar 2025 21:31:41 +0000 https://glaad.org/?p=930082 The Trump White House has announced special guests at the address to Congress who will attempt to continue the administration’s unprecedented campaign targeting transgender people. The facts are: Records show January Littlejohn of Tallahassee, Florida, worked with the school district to support her nonbinary child before Littlejohn sued the district with lawyers from a national [...]

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]]> https://glaad.org/fact-sheet-opponents-of-transgender-people-invited-as-white-house-special-guests-used-to-further-spread-disinformation/feed/ 0 Fact Sheet: Misleading Narratives About Transgender People and Restrooms, Locker Rooms, and Other Single-Sex Spaces https://glaad.org/fact-sheet-misleading-narratives-about-transgender-people-and-restrooms-locker-rooms-and-other-single-sex-spaces/ https://glaad.org/fact-sheet-misleading-narratives-about-transgender-people-and-restrooms-locker-rooms-and-other-single-sex-spaces/#respond Tue, 04 Mar 2025 16:40:58 +0000 https://glaad.org/?p=930049 Current proposals in the US that prohibit transgender people from being able to use public restrooms that align with who they are (e.g. proposals forcing transgender men to use women’s bathrooms, and trans women to use the men’s room) are constructed on intentional falsehoods. This trend of inflammatory fearmongering and demonization is a threat to [...]

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]]> https://glaad.org/fact-sheet-misleading-narratives-about-transgender-people-and-restrooms-locker-rooms-and-other-single-sex-spaces/feed/ 0 Fact Sheet: Intentional Mischaracterizations of Transgender Health Care https://glaad.org/intentional-mischaracterizations-of-transgender-health-care/ https://glaad.org/intentional-mischaracterizations-of-transgender-health-care/#respond Fri, 07 Feb 2025 20:22:46 +0000 https://glaad.org/?p=928424 Transition-related health care for transgender people, including youth, is supported by every major medical association and leading health authority. Efforts to ban and criminalize this care are not based in medical nor scientific expertise, and frequently employ intentional misinformation about what health care for trans, nonbinary, and gender non-conforming people may encompass.  Advocates for Trans [...]

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]]> https://glaad.org/intentional-mischaracterizations-of-transgender-health-care/feed/ 0 GLAAD STATEMENT AND FACTS FOR REPORTERS ON LATEST DISCRIMINATORY AND INACCURATE EXECUTIVE ORDER TARGETING TRANSGENDER AMERICANS https://glaad.org/releases/glaad-statement-and-facts-for-reporters-on-latest-discriminatory-and-inaccurate-executive-order-targeting-transgender-americans/ Wed, 05 Feb 2025 19:34:33 +0000 https://glaad.org/?post_type=releases&p=928200 GLAAD: “This administration’s latest inaccurate and incoherent piece of paper smears an entire group of Americans but does not change the law or the facts. All women and girls, including transgender women and girls, should be welcome to play sports if they want, make decisions about their own bodies, be hired for jobs they are [...]

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]]> Fact Sheet for Reporters: Trump’s Pardon of Jan 6th Insurrectionists https://glaad.org/fact-sheet-for-reporters-trumps-pardon-of-jan-6th-insurrectionists/ https://glaad.org/fact-sheet-for-reporters-trumps-pardon-of-jan-6th-insurrectionists/#respond Wed, 29 Jan 2025 21:35:23 +0000 https://glaad.org/?p=927598 Following his inauguration on January 20, 2025, President Trump issued full commutations and pardons to those indicted and/or sentenced in relation to the attack on the US Capitol on January 6, 2021.  The order explicitly granted clemency for nine members of the Oath Keepers and five members of the Proud Boys, two well-known violent extremist [...]

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]]> https://glaad.org/fact-sheet-for-reporters-trumps-pardon-of-jan-6th-insurrectionists/feed/ 0 Trump Accountability Tracker https://glaad.org/trump-accountability-tracker/ Mon, 20 Jan 2025 22:56:28 +0000 https://glaad.org/?page_id=855244 Trump Accountability Tracker 20 attacks ON LGBTQ PEOPLE 45th and 47th President of the United States GLAAD is monitoring Donald Trump’s LGBTQ record and history including executive orders, legislative support, nominations and statements. 47th Presidency | Interregnum | 45th Presidency | Prior to Presidency 2025 04.15.2025  Sent a memo to lawmakers requesting that Congress rescind $1.1 [...]

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]]> “2.5 ANTI-LGBTQ INCIDENTS EVERY DAY OF 2024” – GLAAD’S ALERT DESK RELEASES NEW DATA ON RISING ANTI-LGBTQ HATE AND EXTREMISM https://glaad.org/releases/glaads-alert-desk-releases-new-data-on-rising-anti-lgbtq-hate-and-extremism/ Tue, 14 Jan 2025 14:17:15 +0000 https://glaad.org/?post_type=releases&p=926196 (New York, NY — January 14, 2025) GLAAD, the world’s leading LGBTQ media advocacy organization, is releasing new metrics on anti-LGBTQ hate in 2024 from the ALERT Desk, our anti-LGBTQ extremism reporting tracker. In 2024, the ALERT Desk tracked at least 918 anti-LGBTQ incidents across the US – the equivalent of 2.5 incidents every day. [...]

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]]> Fact Sheet: Term to Avoid – “Transgenderism” https://glaad.org/term-to-avoid-transgenderism/ https://glaad.org/term-to-avoid-transgenderism/#respond Fri, 10 Jan 2025 16:18:38 +0000 https://glaad.org/?p=926111 “Transgenderism” is a term appropriated by opponents of transgender equality to inaccurately and harmfully imply that being trans is a political ideology, rather than an authentic aspect of one’s personhood.  Framing a person’s transgender identity as a “concept” or “ideology” reduces a core identity to an opinion that can be debated, and therefore justifies dehumanization, [...]

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