Donald Trump justified his ban on transgender people serving in the military in part by citing the cost of trans troops’ healthcare. Leaked copies of Trump’s tax returns show that in 2010, he claimed a $73 million refund – 28 times the cost of yearly healthcare costs for almost 15,000 servicemembers. 

An Indiana High School formally apologized to a transgender student after she was listed erroneously as a candidate for prom king using the students dead name. 

California Governor Gavin Newsom signed several LGBTQ favorable bills into law including one that requires the state’s prison system to recognize the gender identity of persons in its custody.

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A Republican lawmaker running for re-election in Illinois is in hot water for racist and homophobic comments she made on the radio about her opponent, democrat Ken Beal, a gay African American man.  

On Tuesday of last week, President Trump called into Fox News and Friends and accused the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s granddaughter of being a liar. 

In lighter news, at last week’s Emmy Awards, out gay writer and director Dan Levy took top honors along with other members of the cast for the 6-season hit, Schitt's Creek.

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A transgender woman in Delaware, Sarah McBride, won a primary election last Tuesday and is on the road to becoming the first transgender member of the United States Senate. 

Last week the Trump Administration directed all federal agencies to stop all forms of anti-racism training alleging it costs millions and promotes division within the federal workforce.  Some leaders of anti-LGBTQ organizations praised the decision. 

Here in California Governor Newsom signed into law SB 145 a controversial bill that critics say promotes sex with children.  The bill of course does no such thing, but it does create equality for LGBTQ young people by treating them the same as their heterosexual peers.

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In Argentina, the country’s president issued a decree that sets aside 1% of all government jobs for transgender people. 

Here in the U.S., a man has been arrested for making and then detonating a bomb in front of a popular gay gym in New Jersey.  No one was hurt in the attack that shattered windows in front of the popular gym. 

In Sacramento, a woman with HIV was featured in a medical journal this month after researchers found that her body naturally cured her of HIV - this after analyzing over 1 billion blood cells from the woman - No substantial HIV virus was detected.

(Photo: Alberto Fernandez, President of Argentina - Casa Rosada / CC BY 2.5 AR)