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Signal Ohio, formerly known as the Ohio Local News Initiative, is a network of independent, community-led, nonprofit newsrooms backed by a coalition of Ohio organizations, community leaders and the American Journalism Project. It’s one of the largest local nonprofit news startups in the country, with newsrooms in Akron, Cleveland, the Statehouse, and Cincinnati later this year, a staff of more than 30 and more than $15 million raised so far. The newsrooms produce high-quality accountability journalism while working directly with residents to produce and distribute community reporting that is free to access and available for republishing.

The organization is governed by a board that is representative of Ohio’s diverse communities and is an independent 501(c)(3) organization.

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Cleveland Clinic commits $2 million to detransition care in DOJ settlement

The hospital also agreed to not provide pediatric gender-affirming care for two decades, though state law already severely restricts that type of care.

Culture warriors – and their anti-LGBTQ+ politics – lost school board races all around Ohio

In cities large and small around Ohio, conservative incumbents who ran for school boards on culture war agendas lost re-election. Outside candidates struggled as well. While off-year elections are quirky, some see ebbing political strength in anti-LGBTQ+ politics.

School can’t punish Ohio students for misgendering transgender classmates, appeals court rules

Allowing students to ignore trans classmates’ pronouns wouldn’t “materially and substantially disrupt” the classroom, judges said.

Ohio Supreme Court to consider ban on gender-affirming care for minors 

The case sets up a major showdown in an election year for the court, controlled 6-1 by Republicans, on a politically charged question of access to health care.

Ohio budget would ban Medicaid from covering gender affirming mental health care

The proposed budget also requires that driver’s licenses or birth certificates reflect transgender people’s sex assigned at birth.

Ohio State deactivates LGBTQ+ website

The state’s flagship university also issued guidance around celebrations such as Pride Month, saying that the university’s official stance is limited to simply recognizing it.

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