My decision was a direct response to current state policies that limit public universities’ ability to serve LGBTQ+ students openly and affirmatively.
'We never wanted to become advocates. We became advocates because our daughter’s humanity kept becoming a political debate.'
Just weeks after walking in Columbus Pride and being showered with love from the LGBTQ+ community, she chose to legitimize a discriminatory law that targets an infinitesimally small number of vulnerable youth in Ohio.
Kaptur refuses to explain her vote for HR 2616, which would force schools to out trans students and encourage a culture of fear
Caracole in Cincinnati introduced the machines in Ohio as an always-open, judgment-free doorway to connection, care and education.
'Ohio’s LGBTQ+ community cannot afford to assume that existing rights will remain untouched simply because they exist today.’
'The City Club owes the LGBTQ+ community of Cleveland, including me, an apology for being forced to endure this insulting and hateful rhetoric again.'
These religious exemption laws lead to drops in HIV testing.
"While HB 531 may, in some sense, seek to resolve the shortage of school counselors in Ohio, it does so at the risk of students."
Two other Ohio Republican lawmakers are looking to write the term into Ohio Revised Code to protect parents who reject their trans children.
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