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Tricia Crimmins is a Senior Reporter on the politics and tech team covering discrimination, identity, and the 2024 election. She can be found on Twitter at @TriciaCrimmins.

Tricia Crimmins

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‘Everything is better’: Teacher shows reality of gender-neutral bathrooms in schools

Claire Goforth is a lawyer and investigative editor. Her work has appeared in the Guardian, Al Jazeera, the Juvenile Justice Information Exchange, and more. She regularly appears on radio and in podcasts. Email for booking info.

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‘People are just horrid’: Troll makes up story about child to get trans creator kicked out of restaurant during live stream

Katherine Huggins is a New York-based journalist and freelance contributor to the Daily Dot&#8217;s tech and politics section.

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Drag queen says Google left queer employees ’embarrassed, humiliated’ after pulling support for Pride event at the last minute

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‘Karen and Ken texted the team group chat and put themselves on blast hating on me’: Soccer mom mocked, called slur for wearing Pride gear at son’s game

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EXCLUSIVE: Trans designer targeted by right-wing mob over ‘satanic’ Target-Pride collection says he’s getting death threats

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EXCLUSIVE: ‘This is my story, not hers’: Teen says anti-trans article about their puberty blockers got facts wrong

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‘Just because you don’t like it doesn’t make it wrong’: The internet is defending a TikToker living with HIV from Twitter hate (updated)

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‘This madness will end’: Trump boasts about enacting a ‘two genders’ law if elected

Anmol is a Muslim Pakistani freelance journalist and the founder of Perspective Magazine. Her work focuses on global gender justice movements, education, culture, and more, with a particular focus on Pakistani narratives

Anmol Irfan

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Disinformation campaign threatens rights of Pakistan’s trans community

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‘This is so f*cking inhumane’: Trans influencer Nikita Dragun held in a male prison, misgendered in police report (updated)

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