United Nations says U.S. anti-LGBTQ+ laws violate its human rights’ agreements

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A United Nations committee says it’s “deeply concerned” that the United States’ discriminatory treatment of LGBTQ+ people has caused the U.S. to violate a human rights agreement that it signed in 1992.

In a periodic review of U.S. human rights, the U.N. Human Rights Committee identified 29 different “matters of concern” that violate the U.N.’s International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. Among them, the committee cited bans on gender-affirming healthcare and LGBTQ+ discussions in schools, violence and discrimination against LGBTQ+ people, and poor hate crime data collection, Them reported.

The committee also criticized the U.S. for not doing enough to address…

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