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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