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Was a Canadian father jailed for referring to his trans son as his daughter?
Reliable information about this case is hard to find because there is a publication ban on the family identity and on discussion of the child's gender change. However here is a reliable report which I ...
96
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Has the Trump administration revoked these listed LGBT protections?
Jan: removed all content on LGBT civil rights from whitehouse.gov website
True
During Barack Obama’s presidency, if you typed whitehouse.gov/lgbt into your browser, you reached a page highlighting ...
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Has the Trump administration revoked these listed LGBT protections?
Jan - mostly true
Feb - true
Mar - somewhat true
Apr - mostly false
Jul - true
Jan, removed all content on LGBT civil rights from whitehouse.gov website: mostly true
This is rather misleading as ...
58
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Did UK hospital tell the police that a patient was not raped because the alleged attacker was transgender?
Background
The question is in fact solely based on remarks made in a House of Lords debate by Baroness Emma Nicholson on 16 March 2022. The newspaper reports I would suggest have no value as they are ...
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In 1936, did brothers Mark and David Ferrow transition?
These boys evidently had a difference of sexual development (DSD), commonly known as 'intersex', though definitions of intersex do vary, so DSD is preferred.
It quite clearly says that both boys were ...
35
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Was "red, gold, and green" used to display gay pride?
Unlikely.
The linked Genius annotation seems to be the source of this claim - it was posted in September 2012 by a user with no other contributions to the site, and has since been copied verbatim to ...
35
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Was a Canadian father jailed for referring to his trans son as his daughter?
Yes.
Once you dig through the censorship issues and publication bans, the actual court order says this:
It is declared under the Family Law Act that:
(a) AB is exclusively entitled to consent to ...
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Have 41% of transgender people attempted suicide?
This number seems to come from here:
The prevalence of suicide attempts among respondents to the National Transgender Discrimination Survey (NTDS), conducted by the National Gay and Lesbian Task ...
24
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Was "L" placed at the beginning of the LGBT acronym because of the AIDS crisis?
Neither word was used much until the late 1990s, by which time the AIDS epidemic had been around for over a decade.
"GLBT" had a brief surge in popularity in the early 2000s, but its usage ...
22
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In 1936, did brothers Mark and David Ferrow transition?
The thesis POPULAR AND MEDICAL UNDERSTANDINGS OF SEX CHANGE
IN 1930S BRITAIN discusses Mark and David Ferrow for a couple pages starting at page 124, citing four references, all from August 1939, all ...
15
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Did the Pulse nightclub shooter target the LGBTQ community?
Links from NBC News and HuffPost describing the outcome of the trial of Mateen's wife indeed suggest not, or at least that there was no evidence that the attack was targeted.
HuffPost:
As far as ...
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Are George Santos and Gretchen Whitmer the same person?
Gretchen Whitmer was at Lansing Michigan all day on January 25, 2023. Multiple people met with her throughout the day in preparation for her state of the state address. She gave that address at 7:00 ...
13
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Did a Wisconsin school file sexual harassment complaints over pronoun usage?
This appears to be accurate according to local news sources. Parents want Kiel boys cleared of sexual harassment accusations:
KIEL, Wis. (WBAY/Gray News) - The parents of three Wisconsin middle
...
11
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Does a Portland Public Schools curriculum teach K-5 students to subvert “white colonizers”' sexuality and explore “the infinite gender spectrum”?
I can confirm that some pages of the "cache of documents" are on google drive links of the Portland Public School website https://www.pps.net/Page/15891 under the heading "21-22 SY K-5 ...
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Is Rapid-onset gender dysphoria real?
I was unable to find any paper that would validate the rapid-onset gender dysphoria hypothesis.
The paper you link was one of the first to mention a phenomenon called ROGD. You can see that it ...
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Was "L" placed at the beginning of the LGBT acronym because of the AIDS crisis?
A 2007 University of South Carolina document says:
LGBTQ: Is an acronym for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer/questioning. The acronym can be used interchangeably: GLBT, GLBTQ, LGBT, etc....
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Is this a photo of a child trying out a stripper pole at a North Carolina pride event?
Fox News reports that the event occurred in Charlotte, NC, on August 20-21, 2022. They also link to an article about a similar event which took place in Harrisburg, PA. The sponsors of the Harrisburg ...
4
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Was "L" placed at the beginning of the LGBT acronym because of the AIDS crisis?
It has nothing to do with their role in the AIDS crisis. It was placed first as an optics strategy and it originates from second-wave feminism. The insinuation that their solidarity with gay men wasn'...
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Did East Germany (or other countries) require a physical exam in order to obtain a marriage license?
This is a misunderstanding of the claim.
This is not about premarital exams but rather about gender identity. East German law required that a marriage was between a woman and a man (something that was ...
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Does a Portland Public Schools curriculum teach K-5 students to subvert “white colonizers”' sexuality and explore “the infinite gender spectrum”?
The source documents in OP article are closely related to, but go beyond, official Oregon and Portland Public School policy.
Portland Public School Administrative Directive 4.30.061-AD says:
“...
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Did East Germany (or other countries) require a physical exam in order to obtain a marriage license?
We don't need to go so back far in time: mandatory genital inspections (in the sense of, if you don't do it, you can't get legally married) arose in Victoria, Australia, prior to same-sex marriage ...
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Did East Germany (or other countries) require a physical exam in order to obtain a marriage license?
I understand from the comments that this question isn't limited to "Did East Germany do physical examinations to determine the sex of engaged people?" but "Did any jurisdiction require ...
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Did some Nazis meet in a “gay” bar?
According to the 1944 Der Fuehrer; Hitler's Rise to Power by Konrad Heiden:
Edmund Heines, a choice example of the armed bohemian and political murderer, was the leader of these malcontents in Munich;...
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