Hastings: Child outed, hundreds march
NBC reported December 6 on a rally held in support of LGBTQ youth, after the eight-year-old child of school board candidate Kelsey Waits was publicly outed by members of a conservative Facebook group. Hundreds turned out for the rally, which featured LGBTQ speakers, organizations, and elected officials. Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz tweeted his support on Saturday: "Everyone deserves to live in a state that values them for who they are – especially our kids." A Trans demonstrator at the rally told KARE-TV, "My message to Kit is to don't give up. We're here, we're loud, we're queer and we have your back." Waits told NBC that the rally "was amazing. I could not have expected almost a thousand people to come out for my kid."

USA: Dictionary.com chooses "allyship"
NBC reported on December 6 that Dictionary.com has made the word "allyship" its word of the year, after adding it to the site just a month earlier. John Kelly, one of the company's content overseers, said the word has "evolved to take on a more nuanced and specific meaning" since it was first recorded in the mid-1800's. Especially in the last decade, Kelly said, it has become a word for the role allies take in social justice. NBC noted that other dictionaries chose pandemic-related words this year, with Oxford Languages choosing "vaccine," and Merriam-Webster choosing "vax." The Collins Dictionary chose "NFT."