*TiG Special Preview* – Montana Judge Blocks Anti-Trans Ruling, Disney Pulls Trans Storyline, NJ Law Stops Queer Book Bans

Our TiG team has been working hard to bring our show to life. We can’t wait to share more with you all starting January 1st everywhere and December 30th just for you on Substack! Here is a special preview of our dress rehearsal episode from December 18th!

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“Please don't bring up Shrek, it's gonna kill me every time!…The donkey marries a dragon! Do you need to sit your kids down and talk about that?!”

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“To all the idiots who claimed the shooter was trans with no information whatsoever to believe that, f**k off. Your ignorance speaks volumes. Your hate is consuming your brains (or what’s left of them).”

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“When I became a librarian, it was literally because it was one of the last spaces in the United States that's a safe third space that does not require money”

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Episode Research

■ Montana judge blocks rule that prevented transgender people from changing their sex on documents

• AP News: Montana judge blocks rule that prevented transgender people from changing their sex on documents

• Daily Montanan: Judge blocks policies keeping transgender Montanans from changing sex designations

• Montana Free Press: Judge blocks birth certificate, driver’s license rules for transgender Montanans

• News Press Now: Montana judge blocks rule that prevented transgender people from changing their sex on documents

• The Latin Times: Montana Judge Hands Major Victory to Trans Rights Activists in the Deep Red State

• The Republic: Montana judge blocks rule that prevented transgender people from changing their sex on documents

• Count on News 2: Montana judge blocks rule that prevented transgender people from changing their sex on documents

■ Equality Caucus chair tells ‘idiots’ who claimed Wisconsin shooter was trans to ‘f**k off’

• Yahoo News: Equality Caucus chair tells ‘idiots’ who claimed Wisconsin shooter was trans to ‘f*** off’

• Mark Pocan on X: “To all the idiots who claimed the shooter was trans with no information whatsoever to believe that, f**k off. Your ignorance speaks volumes. Your hate is consuming your brains (or what’s left of them).”

• New York Post: Police chief says school shooter Natalie Rupnow’s gender not ‘important at all’ when asked if teen was transgender

• Pink News: Wisconsin shooting: Police chief shuts down speculation suspect was trans

• Them: Right-Wing Twitter is Once Again Baselessly Insisting a Mass Shooter Is Trans

• Advocate: No, the Wisconsin school shooter wasn’t transgender

■ Disney Pulls Transgender Storyline from Pixar’s ‘Win or Lose’ Streaming Series

• The Hollywood Reporter: Disney Pulls Transgender Storyline from Pixar’s ‘Win or Lose’ Streaming Series (Exclusive)

• The Wrap: Disney Removes Trans Storyline From Pixar’s ‘Win or Lose’ Series

• Deadline: Disney Pulls Transgender Storyline From ‘Win Or Lose’ Pixar Series

• Fox News: Disney drops transgender storyline from upcoming animated Pixar show 'Win or Lose'

• Gizmodo: Pixar’s Upcoming Disney+ Show Win or Lose Removed a Transgender Storyline

• The Daily Beast: Disney Cuts Transgender Storyline From Kids Show

• ComingSoon.net: Disney Axed Transgender Storyline from Pixar Show Win or Lose

• Bleeding Cool: Win or Lose: Disney Pulls Transgender Storyline from Pixar Series

• Yahoo News: Disney removes transgender storyline from new Pixar series Win or Lose

• Deadline: ‘Win Or Lose’ Transgender Actress Speaks Out After Disney Cuts Her Storyline: “Very Disheartened”

• Screen Rant: Disney Removes Transgender Story From Upcoming Disney+ Pixar Series

• Wow News Today: Disney Removes Transgender Storyline from Upcoming Pixar Series

• Movie Web: Disney Removed a Transgender Storyline From Another Animated Series

• Independent: Disney removes transgender storyline from new Pixar series Win or Lose

• National Review: Disney Suddenly Realizes That Parents Don’t Want Gender Ideology in Their Children’s Programming

• TV Line: Disney Pulls Transgender Storyline From New Pixar Series Win or Lose

■ New Jersey Fights Censorship: New Law Stops LGBTQ Books Bans

• Metro Weekly: New Jersey is the latest state to pass a law prohibiting LGBTQ books, among others, from being categorically banned

• American Library Association: Library Bill of Rights

• NJ.gov: Governor Murphy Signs Freedom to Read Act

☞ Additional Library & Censorship Sources by: Hannah 📚

• American Library Association: Report Censorship

• The Office for Intellectual Freedom of the American Library Association: Intellectual Freedom Blog

• American Library Association: Data on Book Bans

• Book Banning in 21st Century America by Emily J.M. Knox

• Essay by Viet Thanh Nguyen: “My young mind was disturbed by a book. It changed my life.”

■ Nonprofit receives $60,000 for program addressing HIV infection, drug use in Atlanta LGBTQ community

• Pathways of Wealth & Economic Resources (P.O.W.E.R. ATLANTA Inc.): a nonprofit organization dedicated to eradicating socioeconomic inequality in Atlanta communities.

• WSB TV: Nonprofit receives $60,000 for program addressing HIV infection, drug use in Atlanta LGBTQ community

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