Anti-Trans Bathroom Bill Passes Mississippi House, Inviting Jim Crow Comparison
A measure to restrict transgender people’s use of bathrooms and locker rooms earned approval in the Republican-dominated Mississippi House.
A measure to restrict transgender people’s use of bathrooms and locker rooms earned approval in the Republican-dominated Mississippi House.
Republican voters will choose a candidate to challenge Democratic U.S. House Rep. Bennie Thompson in primary runoffs today.
Transgender recognition would be blocked under a Mississippi bill defining sex as “man” or “woman.” The House passed the bill Wednesday.
Incarcerated people could sue jails and prisons if they encounter transgender inmates in restrooms or changing areas under a proposed bill.
Mississippi teachers would be legally required to out transgender students to their families under House Bill 176, which seven Republicans introduced.
JACKSON, Miss.—When Naomi Green reflects on her time as a student at Jackson State University, she says she wishes she had observed more proactive conversations
Democratic candidate for Mississippi governor Brandon Presley has never expressed support for gender-affirming surgeries for transgender minors, despite repeated assertions to the contrary from Mississippi Republicans and incumbent Gov. Tate Reeves’s reelection campaign.
Corey Burnside was a shell of his former self when he met Cedric Sturdevent at a Greenville, Miss., support group for Black gay men in
Mississippi House Rep. Nick Bain, the Republican who authored Mississippi’s ban on gender-affirming care for transgender minors this year, has conceded after gun store owner Brad Mattox defeated him in the Republican primary for House District 2 in Alcorn County by just 26 votes.
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