Social Issues

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"South Park" creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone covered transgender athletes in an episode titled "Board Girls." (Image: Comedy Central, 'South Park' screenshot)

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Sri Lanka Ethnic Divisions Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

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Vice President Mike Pence called the Trump administration "the most pro-adoption administration in American history" on Tuesday. He didn't mention court battles in which Christian adoption agencies are accused of violating anti-discrimination rules. (ASSOCIATED PRESS)

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Hyeok Kim, left, a chair for WA Fairness, watches for early results at an election night party for supporters of Referendum 88, Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2019, in Seattle. Voters were deciding whether one's minority status should be considered as a contributing factor in state employment, contracting and admission to public colleges and universities. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)

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Dozens of protesters staged an "eat-in" on a San Francisco train platform on Sunday after a video of a black man being detained by police for eating a sandwich went viral. (KGO-TV)

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The Middle Class President chart

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Illustration on CLEAR legislation by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times

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Sen. Bernard Sanders introduced a proposal to overhaul U.S. immigration law. His plan would also expand labor rights for immigrants. (Associated Press)

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The National Center for Transgender Equality, NCTE, and the Human Rights Campaign gather on Pennsylvania Avenue in front of the White House in Washington, Monday, Oct. 22, 2018, for a #WontBeErased rally. Anatomy at birth may prompt a check in the "male" or "female" box on the birth certificate _ but to doctors and scientists, sex and gender aren't always the same thing. The Trump administration purportedly is considering defining gender as determined by sex organs at birth, which if adopted could deny certain civil rights protections to an estimated 1.4 million transgender Americans. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

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A man is taken into custody at a Koch Foods Inc. plant in Morton, Miss., on Wednesday, Aug. 7, 2019. U.S. immigration officials raided several Mississippi food processing plants on Wednesday and signaled that the early-morning strikes were part of a large-scale operation targeting owners as well as employees. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)

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An Afghan security personnel arrive at the site of suicide attack in Jalalabad east of Kabul, Afghanistan, Friday, Oct. 25, 2019. An Afghan official says a suicide attack has targeted a convoy carrying officials from the country's intelligence service, killing five people, including a child, in eastern Nangarhar province. The Taliban claimed the attack. (AP Photo/Wali Sabawoon)

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Balanced Budget illustration by Linas Garsys

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Illustration on government interference with economic prosperity by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

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The Senate Medical Affairs Committee in South Carolina advanced a bill that would outlaw abortion after a fetal heartbeat is detected, typically around six weeks of pregnancy. At that phase of pregnancy, many are unaware that they have become pregnant. (ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTOGRAPHS)

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FILE — In this Tuesday, Sept. 10, 2019, file photo, opponents of a bill banning abortions in South Carolina after a fetal heartbeat is detected wore similar buttons at a state Senate subcommittee public hearing in Columbia, South Carolina. A group of South Carolina senators are expected to take another step toward banning almost all abortions in the state. The Senate Medical Affairs Committee is expected to pass a heartbeat abortion bill Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2019. (AP Photo/Jeffrey Collins, File)

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Minnesota Sen. Scott Dibble, right, sponsor of the gay marriage bill in the Minnesota Senate, listens along with his partner, Richard Leyva, left, to debate on the bill to legalize same-sex marriage in the Minnesota House, Thursday, May 9, 2013 in St. Paul, Minn. (AP Photo/Jim Mone)