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(LA Blade) In a 6-2 vote Tuesday evening, the Hempfield School District’s board approved a policy limiting transgender student athletic participation on sports teams aligning with their sex at birth.

Ugly words from the past are surfacing everywhere this week.

Determined to cancel transgender athletes, Republicans in Florida pushed forward new restrictions on school sports.

Wearing a blue swim cap, Lia Thomas dived into the pool for the final home competition of her collegiate career, and nothing could slow down this University of Pennsylvania swimmer.  

(LA Blade) Organizers of Great Britain’s version of the combined sports of swimming, biking and running — the Triathlon — have made a landmark decision to resolve the question of whether transgender women athletes can compete with other women.

NEW YORK (AP) -- Brittney Griner had a busy WNBA offseason. She played in China, vacationed in Miami and watched from courtside while favorite player LeBron James beat her hometown Houston Rockets.

Despite a record number of LGBT athletes at the Beijing Winter Olympics, it is the broadcasting network's choice of whether to specifically talk about these athletes being a member of the LGBT community. 

As attacks continue against transgender athletes, Broward County schools have taken a stance: let them play.

There will be a gay player in the NFL this season.

A week after announcing her run for California’s next governor, Caitlyn Jenner said that transgender girls shouldn’t be allowed to compete in girls’ sports.

Canadian Olympic pole vaulter Shawn Barber took to Facebook on Monday to come out as "gay and proud!"

(WM) Longtime Cincinnati Reds broadcaster Thom Brennaman has been suspended indefinitely after using an anti-gay slur live on air Aug. 19.

(SS) Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a controversial ban on transgender athletes in girls’ and women’s sports on Tuesday, putting his signature on a contentious issue that has riled his conservative base.

Public restrooms and restrooms accessible to the public — like those in a Starbucks or McDonald’s — are not the same.

When the NFL’s 2022 season began, just one player, Carl Nassib, identified openly as gay.

Gov. Ron DeSantis made no effort to hide his anti-LGBT views when he signed a proclamation declaring a ciswoman the “rightful winner” after she lost to a trans swimmer in a championship event.

At a press conference last week Gov. Ron DeSantis accused the Biden administration of taking children’s lunch money away because of Florida’s decision to ban transgender athletes in amateur female sports. 

Officials from the New York Police Department are currently investigating the death of Michael Wright, a former player for the New York Knicks, saying he was possibly was killed by someone he met on the gay dating app Grindr, the New York Daily News reports.

(WM) The Fed Cup is changing its name to honor tennis great Billie Jean King, the woman whose lifelong battle for equality and social justice laid the foundation for generations that followed.

(WM) The U.S. Department of Education is threatening to withhold some federal funding from Connecticut school districts if they follow a state policy that allows transgender girls to compete as girls in high school sports.

(WB) On Tuesday Judge Jane Magnus-Stinson of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Indiana issued a preliminary injunction that blocked an Indiana law that prevents trans youth from playing on sports teams that match their gender identity.

Stefanie Dolson, a basketball player, has become the first LGBT United States athlete to win a gold medal during the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.

(SS) The Florida House voted Wednesday to block transgender children from playing on sports teams that align with their gender.

He may not have come out during his time in the professional realm, but now he wants to tell the world.

Instead of facing ten years in prison, Marshall University running back Steward Butler may only get up to two years following his recent alleged attack on a gay couple.

Sanjaya Malakar came out as bisexual, Tommy Dorfman announces her engagement in an interview, and Maybelle Blair, a lesbian, threw the first pitch before a game at Dodger Stadium.

"The Great Gatsby" will feature more LGBT characters, Ellia Green comes out as a trans man, and a same-sex couple has adopted a new baby boy.

This week read about Jahmal Howlett-Mundle coming out as bisexual, President Joe Biden appointing a lesbian rabbi to lead the Religious Freedom Commission, and Jamie Lee Curtis talking about her transgender child.