Netherlands Bans LGBTQ+ Conversion Therapy in Historic Rights Victory
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#transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA
A patchwork of policies is trying to level the inequitable access to fertility care between straight and queer couples. Only seven states and Washington, D.C. have insurance laws that explicitly require the inclusion of LGBTQ+ people.
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Americans: “Please lower electricity prices like you promised.”
Trump:
In a landmark move, Netherlands bans LGBTQ+ conversion therapy after a historic Senate vote and 15 years of survivor-led activism.
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Many insurance plans only cover IVF if there is an infertility diagnosis. This rule often leaves out LGBTQ+ couples and makes the process more expensive.
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Georgia Democrats celebrated after Republican leaders shelved plans to redraw the state’s legislative and congressional maps this summer. But many greeted the move with skepticism, warning GOP leaders could revive the effort later. #gapol www.ajc.com/politics/202...
'the future of the world’s largest open-access digital library for biodiversity literature is under threat ... the Smithsonian Institution, which has faced severe funding cuts under the Trump administration, stopped hosting the BHL’s administration functions' ...
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The biggest AI risk isn't rogue machines—it's "cognitive surrender,” writes Evan Liu. As part of a series of student essays produced in collaboration with the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University, Liu argues AI tempts us to outsource the struggle of learning itself.
Cameron Oakes
Transgender World
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Republican state legislators announced they would not redraw Georgia's political maps, but Democrats are wary.
The Biodiversity Heritage Library is an invaluable online archive of historic texts on species living and lost supplied by the world’s leading museums and universities. Now its future is in doubt
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For many, AI introduces the suspicion that self-investment is inherently a losing proposition, writes recent graduate Evan Liu.
NEW: Vellesiya Wiley says that when she saw Senatobia police officers draw guns and point them toward the car where she was riding in the passenger seat with her 1-year-old son, Kohen Wiley, she lifted the child up to show them he was with her. Moments later, an officer fired, killing the child.
Donna Ladd said what she said. 😘
Kylie M. Smith wrote an angry book
Kohen Wiley’s mother, Vellesiya Wiley, disputed police claims that the car was driving toward the officer who shot her 1-year-old child.
Reminders:
1. Juneteenth ain’t got shit to do w/ “unity”; it’s about when the memo arrived to Galveston, TX in 1865 that this slavery shit is over
2. Opal Lee fought for decades to make Juneteenth a national holiday, so don’t insult her w/ some “it should’ve never been a national holiday” bullshit
