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Photo Credit: NCAA / Facebook In response to discussions of elected state officials passing bills aimed at excluding transgender athletes from participating in sports, the National Collegiate Athletics Association’s (NCAA) Division III LGBTQ OneTeam Program released a letter on April 5 denouncing their actions. There are 93 anti-transgender bills introduced so far across the country in 2021, “the vast majority of which attempt to ban transgender women and girls’ participation in girls sports or ban transgender youth from accessing medically necessary, gender-affirming health care,” according to a Human Rights Campaign press release. Many LGBT+ advocates are pushing the NCAA to boycott and pull away from having championships in these states. Arkansas is just one of the many states that have passed these bills into law. “This law simply says that female athletes should not have to compete in a sport against a student of the male sex when the sport is designed for women’s competition,...

Photo Credit: CDC / Facebook The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Food and Drug Administration officials recommended to pause the Johnson & Johnson (Janssen) vaccine on Tuesday after six people developed a rare blood clot. “Right now I’d like to stress these events appear to be extremely rare, however, COVID-19 vaccine safety is a top priority for the federal government and we take all reports of adverse events following vaccination very seriously,” said Acting FDA Commissioner Dr. Janet Woodcock. As of April 12, more than 6.8 million doses were administered in the U.S., according to the joint CDC and FDA statement. The six patients who developed the blood clot, cerebral venous sinus thrombosis (CVST), and thrombocytopenia, a low blood platelet count, were women ages 18-48. Heparin tends to be used to treat blood clots, but an alternative solution is necessary as it may be dangerous in this case. In an interview with TODAY , Dr. Anthony Fauci reassured audiences ...

Photo Credit: Goodreads / Facebook Do I have enough toilet paper? What are the symptoms? Will I still have a job? When will the pandemic be over? “I swear to you that to think too much is a disease, a real, actual disease,” Fyodor Dostoyesky once wrote . That’s exactly what everyone was doing at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic last year. People lost their jobs and it was as if the whole world was on shutdown when there were orders to stay home locked indoors and to only go out for essential needs. Those who were not homebodies had to adapt to this new lifestyle and learn to take on new activities that didn’t require going out as often. Instead of just twiddling one’s thumbs and staring out the window, one’s computer screen, or television all day, it was the smart ones who used their time wisely and took on reading. There was a rise in print book sales in 2020, according to NPD Bookscan . There are many heroes to thank for their support during these hard times and they finally recei...

Photo Credit: Pontifex / Twitter Addressing matters on same-sex marriage, The Congregation For the Doctrine Of the Faith stated that it “can’t bless sin” in the church on March 15. The marriage sacrament in Catholicism has traditionally been between a man and a woman. Pope Francis I is seen by many to be progressive and is the first pope to support civil unions for gay couples. “Homosexual people have the right to be in a family. They are children of God,” Francis said in the 2020 documentary “ Franceso, ” directed by Evgeny Affineevsky . “What we have to have is a civil union law; that way they are legally covered.” Despite Francis’ history of support for the LGBT+ community, however, he approved the C.D.F.’s ruling . Francis said that it was “not intended to be a form of unjust discrimination, but rather a reminder of the truth of the liturgical rite,” BBC reports . Robert Roush, the executive director of GLYS Western New York, Inc: Growing LGBTQ+ Youth Support , an organization ...