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  "publishedAt": "2026-03-25T14:02:09.000Z",
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  "textContent": "📚 Max Bearden begins each school year the same way. “Hey, guys, I’m Teacher B!” That simple, gender-neutral title Bearden uses with their students is the target of a new bill introduced by Republicans in Tennessee. Bearden spoke with _The _ Advocate about the unwanted attention and fear that the proposal has sparked.\n\nLast October, the U.S. Tennis Association quietly banned transgender women from competing in events. Now, trans tennis players in Las Vegas have built their own league.\n\nAnd in Ohio, a queer motorcycle club is responding to anti-LGBTQ+ laws by teaching people how to use guns in self-defense.\n\nUntil next time,\n\n**_The Advocate_ team**\n\n### Tennessee Republican 'honorifics' bill is personal for the trans teacher at its center\n\n\n\n\n### Trans tennis players in Las Vegas build their own league after being sidelined\n\n\n\n\n### Ohio queer motorcycle club responds to anti-LGBTQ+ laws by teaching how to fire guns\n\n\n\n\n### In Markwayne Mullin, Pete Hegseth has a competitor in bravado, masochism, and queer hate\n\n\n\n\n### Georgia court upholds firing of teacher who read LGBTQ+ book to class\n\n\n\n\n### Senior Trump officials seem to have no idea what ICE agents are supposed to be doing at airports\n\n\n\n\n### Our Pride Month special is here!\n\n\n\n\nGet a year-long subscription to The Advocate / Out for just $6.",
  "title": "Advocate newsletter 3/25/26"
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