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I'm not aware of any recent laws that restrict the rights of LGBT individuals, could you please name them?

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Both ACLU and HRC have convenient tracking for these bills.

Last year over 300 bills were introduced, and 29 were signed into law (still far too many).

https://www.hrc.org/press-releases/human-rights-campaign-wor...

https://www.aclu.org/news/lgbtq-rights/how-the-aclu-tracks-a...

Just one example:

Tennessee has recently passed a law banning “male or female impersonators” from performing in public places. Tennessee also does not alter sex on birth certificates for trans people.

Arguably this means that Tennessee banned trans people from performing in public in any capacity.

seems to be about the Ts rather than about the Ls, Gs, and Bs.

LGBT as an umbrella term has never made any sense to me. One of These Things Is Not Like the Others.

as well as individuals being different to each other. lots of different lesbians, with lots of different ideas, opinions.. everyone is an individual. it's not like one heterosexual is the same as another.

I am trying to understand this. People can be different from each other but still share relevant attributes. For example, two women can have different ideas and opinions, but they are both women. I don’t see the problem here

I don’t see how you can come to that conclusion. “Male and female impersonators” as written in the law was meant to refer to drag shows, which are definitely not just trans people.

You do know that LGBTQ refers to 5+ different things, right?

Of course I do. What’s the purpose of this question?

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