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Published on December 12, 2023 - 19:20 GMT

SPLC Report Exposes Network Behind Junk Science and Disinformation Campaign Against the LGBTQ+ Community

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Today, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) released a sweeping new report that details how pseudoscience has become a tool of the far right to manipulate public opinion and advance legislation and legal action targeting the LGBTQ+ …

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Published on December 12, 2023 - 19:20 GMT

Introduction

In the United States, anti-LGBTQ+ pseudoscience has largely been informed by conservative interpretations of Chrisitan religious traditions.[xiii] The assumption that LGBTQ+ identity is not “natural” and is contrary to the “Biblical binary” understanding …

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Published on December 12, 2023 - 19:20 GMT

Foundations of the Contemporary Anti-LGBTQ+ Pseudoscience Network

Between 2015 and 2016, three websites that are crucial for shaping the narratives and research agendas of the new guard in the anti-LGBTQ+ pseudoscience network started online. These sites largely recycled the conversion narratives of the old guard but …

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Published on December 12, 2023 - 19:20 GMT

The Pseudoscience Network in Action: A Case Study of Virginia

In 2023, the Virginia House of Delegates adopted Sage’s Law. The law was drafted in part by the Virginia Family Foundation’s Founding Freedoms Law Center to out transgender students to their parents and bar schools from engaging in socially affirming …

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Published on December 12, 2023 - 19:20 GMT

Timeline: Building a Pseudoscience Network

2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 2015 March 17 4th Wave Now online: One of three websites that helped shape the research agenda of the anti-LGBTQ+ pseudoscience network. 4WN and Transgender Trend are based in the U.K. June 4 …

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Published on December 12, 2023 - 18:20 GMT

Vote Your Voice Florida: Student organization trains tomorrow’s leaders

Cynthia Frage’s entire childhood in West Palm Beach, Florida, was defined by the fact that her father, a Haitian immigrant who came to the U.S. at the age of 19, was unable to obtain citizenship. He could not get a green card that would allow him to work …

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Published on December 8, 2023 - 23:03 GMT

68 years later, Montgomery Bus Boycott illustrates power of community action

I’m fascinated by history. Today’s 68th anniversary of the Montgomery Bus Boycott is another reminder why. First, because I think it’s interesting to know who and what came before me, and how that’s led us to where we are today. Second, because I believe …

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Published on December 8, 2023 - 19:13 GMT

Human Rights Day is a reminder that the US must live up to its promises

Human Rights Day is observed every Dec. 10 by the United Nations and its member countries – including the U.S. What’s more, the U.S. is party to three important U.N. human rights treaties – the International Convention on the Elimination of Racial …

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Published on December 8, 2023 - 04:37 GMT

The Southern Poverty Law Center Closes on Site of Future Campus on Atlanta’s Westside

ATLANTA – The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) closed today on a 2.5-acre parcel at 871 Wheeler St. in Atlanta’s Westside English Avenue neighborhood that will be the future home of the SPLC’s Atlanta office. The Montgomery, Alabama-based SPLC has had …

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Published on December 6, 2023 - 19:00 GMT

Searching for gift ideas? ’Tis the season to give the gift of banned books

As we wind down a year marked by groups campaigning to ban books from libraries and schools, it seems fitting that a banned book is the ideal holiday gift. In the first eight months of 2023, 3,923 public library books were “challenged,” according to the …

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Published on December 5, 2023 - 18:09 GMT

Vote Your Voice Georgia: Student activists lead voter empowerment efforts

A generation ago, voter registration on college campuses usually looked something like this: a folding table in the corner of a quad somewhere, a handmade sign or two, a stack of registration sheets from the local voting precinct and perhaps a few student …

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Published on December 1, 2023 - 17:54 GMT

‘Medicaid unwinding’ harms millions of people, especially communities of color

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Medicaid programs were required to keep people enrolled through the end of the public health emergency. This might have helped millions of families avoid falling deeper into poverty, particularly those in communities of color, …

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Published on November 30, 2023 - 23:24 GMT

Standing In Power and the Decatur Community Demand Justice for Steve Perkins

MONTGOMERY — This week, Standing In Power (S.I.P.), in partnership with the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Alabama State Office, raised two billboards demanding justice for the death of Steve Perkins, who was senselessly killed by a Decatur police officer …

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Published on November 30, 2023 - 23:23 GMT

Caicedo, et al. v. DeSantis

On Aug. 9, 2023, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, a Republican, suspended Monique Worrell, a Democrat, from her elected position as state attorney for Orange and Osceola counties because of his opposition to her criminal legal reforms and a general hostility …

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Published on November 30, 2023 - 18:35 GMT

SPLC Challenges Florida Governor’s Suspension of State Attorney Monique Worrell

ORLANDO, Fla. — Today, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) filed a complaint challenging Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’s suspension of State Attorney Monique Worrell, claiming the suspension rejects the will of the voters who elected Worrell and violates …

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Published on November 29, 2023 - 23:23 GMT

Groups Threaten Suit over Charlotte County Public Schools’ LGBTQ+ Book Ban Policy

CHARLOTTE COUNTY, Fla. — The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) sent a demand letter today on behalf of All Rainbow and Allied Youth (ARAY) and PFLAG Port Charlotte urging the School Board of Charlotte County and Superintendent Mark Vianello to end the …

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Published on November 29, 2023 - 22:27 GMT

Supreme Court decision is a victory for transgender and immigrant justice

Estrella Santos-Zacaria has come a long way from San Pedro Soloma, Guatemala, a village nestled in the Sierra de los Cuchumatanes mountains and known as El Valle del Ensueño, or the Valley of Dreams. For years, Santos-Zacaria dreamed desperately – of …

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Published on November 28, 2023 - 23:20 GMT

Jenna Ellis Hosts Antisemitic White Nationalist on Radio Show

Ellis’s podcast streams on radio stations across the country. Woods, who is Irish, sympathizes with the anti-immigrant rioters who unleashed chaos last week in Dublin, following news that a man of Algerian origin had stabbed multiple children in a grisly …

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Published on November 27, 2023 - 23:19 GMT

Accused Vermont Shooter Has Conspiratorial History

Authorities charged Eaton, 48, with three counts of second-degree attempted murder following his arrest on Sunday. The shooting occurred outside his apartment building near the University of Vermont campus, according to the Associated Press. His attorney …

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Published on November 22, 2023 - 23:07 GMT

Embracing My Heritage: What Thanksgiving means to me as a Cherokee woman

From an early age, I loved to cook. So I was always in the kitchen with my grandmother. She was the matriarch of our family and, to my delight, each Thanksgiving, the kitchen brimmed with her knowledge and energy. My grandmother was a Cherokee woman. Our …

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