Baseball players pitch fit over Gay nuns
Los Angeles Dodgers player Clayton Kershaw has said he disagrees with his team's decision to reinvite the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence to its annual Pride Night, after the satirical LGBTQ+ group's appearance was initially canceled in response to criticism from conservatives like Marco Rubio.

"This has nothing to do with the LGBTQ community or Pride or anything like that," Kershaw said in a players-only meeting in the clubhouse before a game. "This is simply a group that was making fun of religion. That I don't agree with."

On its website, the Sisters denied they were anti-Catholic, saying that they use "humor and irreverent wit to expose the forces of bigotry, complacency, and guilt that chain the human spirit."

Washington Nationals pitcher Trevor Williams defended Catholics worldwide in a Twitter post: "To invite and honor a group that makes a blatant and deeply offensive mockery of my religion, and the religion of over four million people in Los Angeles County alone, undermines the values of respect and inclusivity that should be upheld by any organization."

Seven players opted out of wearing rainbow-colored jerseys on their teams' Pride nights during the recent NHL season. The Chicago Blackhawks, New York Rangers, and Minnesota Wild decided not to wear rainbow warmup jerseys, despite doing so in previous seasons.

Alabama defines men, women by "design"
Over the last week Alabama's state legislature has made moves against Trans people, first by trying to define what a woman or man is, and more recently by expanding its ban on Trans athletes to college sports teams.

On Wednesday last week, the state's House Health Committee approved the "What is a Woman Act" to be sent to the House floor. It would define "female" and "woman" as an "individual whose biological reproductive system is designed to produce ova" and a male and a man as an "individual whose biological reproductive system is designed to fertilize the ova of a female."

The bill's sponsor, Republican Rep. Susan Dubose, implied that the bill was a response to activists trying to "separate sex from biology."

Carmarian D. Anderson-Harvey, director of the Alabama state branch of the Human Rights Campaign, called the bill "the LGBTQ+ Erasure Act" and said that it "aims to strip away dozens of legal protections and rights for LGBTQ+ Alabamians."

"LGBTQ+ people have spent decades fighting to be equal members of society, but this bill is a slap in the face to all of the progress we've made," Anderson-Harvey said.

Anderson-Harvey also condemned the expansion of the ban on Trans people in school sports: "In just two years, [Dubose] and extremist lawmakers in Alabama have passed four anti-LGBTQ+ bills. From dictating what bathrooms we can use to blatantly ignoring the actual problems in women's sports, these politicians are making Alabama an increasingly hostile place for Transgender people and the LGBTQ+ community as a whole."