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... being homosexual is not a crime,” and that “everyone, everyone, everyone” is welcome in the church. During his pontificate, the Vatican reversed itself and said transgender people could be baptized, serve as godparents and witnesses at weddings; and approved same-sex blessings. But while he met several times with members ...
... garbage scavengers to join him onstage in Rio de Janeiro. “We have always been marginalized, but Pope Francis always helped us,” said Coqui Vargas, a transgender woman whose Roman community forged a unique relationship with Francis during the pandemic. His first trip as pope was to the island of Lampedusa ...
... Trump administration, among other things, has moved to shutter Social Security Administration field offices, cut funding for government health programs and scale back protections for transgender people. “I cannot sit still knowing that if I don’t do anything and everybody doesn’t do something to change this, that the ...
... The new amendment also says that Hungary's Constitution will only recognize two sexes, male and female, a basis for denying the gender identities of transgender people and others. In Brazil, former President Jair Bolsonaro remains in intensive care today after undergoing a lengthy 12-hour surgery for a bowel ...
Döbrentey, the lawyer, said it was “a clear message” for transgender and intersex people: “It is definitely and purely and strictly about humiliating people and excluding them, not just from the national community, but even from the community of human beings." The amendment is the 15th to Hungary’s constitution ...
... available to any student in the coming year. Reynolds’ proposed budget line for the accounts next year reached $314 million. She backed policies to restrict transgender students’ use of bathrooms and locker rooms, and their participation on sports teams, in an effort to protect people assigned female at birth. This ...
... administration's moves to fire thousands of federal workers, close Social Security Administration field offices, effectively shutter entire agencies, deport immigrants, scale back protections for transgender people and cut federal funding for health programs. Musk, a Trump adviser who owns Tesla, SpaceX and the social media platform X, has played ...
... for the Trump administration, which is facing some 150 lawsuits on issues ranging from immigration to deep financial and job cuts at federal agencies to transgender rights. Federal judges have issued dozens of orders slowing — at least for now — the president’s ambitious conservative agenda. AP reporter Lindsay Whitehurst in ...
... guidelines and policies that may contradict Trump's slew of executive orders, though the EEOC has already moved to drop seven lawsuits alleging discrimination against transgender and nonbinary people in response to a presidential order declaring the government would only recognize the male and female genders. Changing such policies — including ...
... hired or employed lawyers who took positions against the administration. They represented Democratic political officials. They took on representation of people who were advocating for transgender individuals, right? And so the administration is expressly saying, if you do these things, if you represent people we don't like, issues we ...
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