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May 2022 LGBT+ News Recap
1 June 2022
May 1
LGBT Nigerians protest anti crossdressing bill
May 3
Lawmakers in 20 states will introduce transgender refuge bills that will protect transgender kids from laws that ban transgender healthcare
May 4
5 Republican senator want LGBT+ TV content to be marked with warnings
May 4
Video of anti LGBT+ congressman Madison Cawthorn nude with another man leaks (haggard's law)
May 4
People fear that overturning Roe v. Wade will effect LGBT+ civil rights rulings
May 4
Georgia high school association bans transgender players
May 5
Case trying to ban puberty blockers in the UK is rejected from the Supreme Court
May 6
Tennessee governor extends the ban on transgender sports
May 9
Alabama ban on transgender youth health care goes into effect
May 11
Florida students stop censorship of year book's anti "don't say gay" bill protest
May 11
Report researches the ramifications of abolishing legal gender
May 12
Japan will allow same sex civil unions
May 12
Greece bans conversion "therapy"
May 13
The Texas Supreme Court allows child abuse investigations into parents providing transgender youth with healthcare to move forward
May 13
Louisiana revives "don't say gay" bill
May 13
UK government will fund a hotline for conversion therapy victims
May 14
Judge blocks Alabama's ban on transgender healthcare for youth
May 16
South Carolina governor signs anti transgender sports bill into law
May 17
Judge strikes down law forcing businesses to put up warning signs if they don't discriminate against transgender people for using the bathroom
May 17
International day against homophobia, transphobia and biphobia
May 17
British embassy flies pride flag though was condemned by authorities afterwerds
May 18
Outspoken anti LGBT+ politician loses re-election bid
May 21
Montana not following transgender birth certificate ruling
May 21
Turkish police crack down on a LGBT+ rights protest
May 23
Montana legally erases transgender people
May 23
UK government debates non binary legal recognition
May 24
Hospital in Texas will continue to provide gender affirming care after positive court ruling
May 24
Indiana legislature overrides veto of transgender sports ban
May 25
Conspiracy theorists spread lie that Texas school shooter was a transgender person
May 25
Oklahoma Governor signs bathroom bill into law for schools
May 25
Colorado governor passes law that makes it much easier for same sex couples to adopt
May 26
New Hampshire kills bill that would out LGBT+ students
May 29
New York allows non binary X gender markers
May 31
The BBC's executive complaints unit responds to the BBC's transphobic article
May 31
Joe Biden condemns legislative attacks on the LGBT+ community while calling for the passage of the equality act