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• Rock Hill jumps into the bathroom and gender debate

  By Mykah Buff Verified| QnotesCarolinas Verified A Rock Hill, South Carolina school board member recently proposed a new policy following a budget provision  that would require transgender students to use bathrooms and changing rooms based on their biological sex. The Student Physical Privacy Amendment (H3477) enforces schools that receive funding from the state to ensure public school restrooms and other spaces – like Physical Education locker and changing rooms – be utilized only by individuals presenting in their sex assigned at birth.

  By Mykah Buff Verified · QnotesCarolinas

  Jun. 11, 2024

• Kim Petras made history as first trans artist to win a Grammy

  By Mykah Buff Verified| QnotesCarolinas Verified German pop star Kim Petras is taking the world by storm after making history a year ago this month as the first transgender woman to ever win a Grammy Award in the best pop/duo category, for “Unholy,” a collaboration with Sam Smith. Petras started making music in her teens, releasing a number of songs independently from 2017 to 2019, that charted on Billboard’s Dance/Electronic songs chart.

  By Mykah Buff Verified · QnotesCarolinas

  Feb. 02, 2024

• In Memoriam: Honoring those lost to violent deaths over the past year

  By Mykah Buff Verified| QnotesCarolinas Verified The last three years have been followed with record highs of transgender and non-binary violent deaths, with 2020 being the the worst recorded year in history for murders and violence of these often underreported hate crimes. According to Human Rights Campaign (HRC), “2022 has already seen at least 32 transgender people fatally shot or killed by other violent means.” “We say “at least” because too often these stories go unreported — or misreported,” HRC added.

  By Mykah Buff Verified · QnotesCarolinas

  Nov. 11, 2022

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