Orion Rummler is The 19th’s LGBTQ+ reporter focusing on state politics, breaking news, and the underreported ways that trans and queer people are marginalized. He previously covered breaking news for Axios and contributed research to “Axios on HBO.”
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Jewish Americans Feel Echoes of History in Trans Passport Restrictions
Emily Scherer for The 19th; Getty Images. Republished with permission.
Camins Bretts, who is 61 and lives in Seattle, has crossed the Canada-United States border many times for work, family and romantic partners. But because he’s a transgender man, at least half a dozen of those trips ended in him being detained by U.S. border officials.
What It Means for LGBTQ+ Americans To Leave — Or Choose — The Church
Rena Li for The 19th. Used with permission.
New data finds that almost two-thirds of LGBTQ+ people who were raised Christian have since left the faith — and those who stay are typically older, Black, cisgender men and those who live in the South.