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Your voices were heard and stopped the Texas anti-transgender legislation.

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Today, HRC released a new graphic highlighting the many voices that joined together to successfully stop anti-transgender legislation that was considered in the Texas legislature. It can be viewed here. Due to the outpouring of opposition from Texans from all walks of life, anti-transgender legislation is dead for this session. HRC is proud to have worked throughout the regular session and special session with a coalition of organizations, including Equality Texas, the ACLU of Texas, the Texas Freedom Network and the Transgender Education Network of Texas.

Moldova’s LGBT discrimination on the rise.

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While Moldova’s LGBT community enjoys some legal protection against discrimination, public perceptions remain negative, and domestic proponents of a pro-Russian agenda have launched a propaganda campaign that has left LGBT people more and more exposed.

Coming soon, food, fun and drag queens in Charlotte.

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In what the organizers are calling “our coming-out story,” the South End club Boulevard 1820 is changing into a drag queen-themed restaurant starting Aug. 22, with servers and performers in drag. While similar restaurant concepts exist in New York, Atlanta, Orlando and other cities, including the national chain Hamburger Mary’s and the Atlanta restaurant Lips, Boulevard 1820 will be the first of its kind in Charlotte, according to Kolby Brinkley, an owner of the new restaurant at 1820 South Blvd., downstairs from Tupelo Honey.

LGBT Canadian’s have options for starting a family.

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All over Canada this summer, cities are celebrating pride. My colleagues and I at the Pacific Centre for Reproductive Medicine (PCRM) walked in Vancouver’s Pride Parade over the August long weekend. What better time to write about the options available to LGBTQ couples for building a family? Every family is unique, so your fertility doctor should help you navigate the specific treatments and laws that apply to your situation. Here is some general information to get you started.

Alabama’s next senator could be firmly anti-LGBT.

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Former chief justice of the State Supreme Court Roy Moore and Senator Luther Strange, appointed to fill Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ empty seat, emerged as the top choices among a crowded GOP field on Tuesday to set up a runoff. Strange is expected to embrace President Donald Trump‘s policies more or less across the board, and even borrowed his slogan in saying, “What it all boils down to is: Who’s best suited to stand with the people of this country, with our president, and make sure we make America great again?”

LGBT heritage sites in Vermont

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A small group of community leaders recently met with State Historic Preservation Officer Laura V. Trieschmann in the offices of the Rockingham Arts and Museum Project to work on getting Vermont LGBTQ heritage sites on the state and national historic registry. The process may start in Bellows Falls.

Banning transgender troops could cost $960 million.

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If the U.S. military implements President Donald Trump’s directive to ban transgender people from serving, it would cost the U.S. government about $960 million, according to a report. The study released by the Palm Center estimates the cost to replace the transgender service members would be 114 times more than the $8.4 million to provide them care for gender transition.