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In our news wrap Thursday, the Supreme Court will hear two cases next term on whether states may exclude transgender athletes from women's and girls' sports, Kilmar Abrego Garcia says he endured "severe beatings" and torture while being held at a notorious prison in El Salvador and the Chicago suburb where Pope Leo grew up...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court agreed Thursday to hear a case over state restrictions on which school sports teams transgender students can join. Just two weeks after upholding a ban on gender-affirming care for transgender youth, the justices said they will review lower court rulings in favor of transgender ...
... Riley Gaines thanked President Donald Trump on social media and wrote of the settlement, “ Are pigs flying?" Gaines has said she started her activism against transgender athletes competing in women's sports after sharing a locker room with Thomas at the 2022 NCAA championships. The Education Department opened its investigation ...
... it certainly is something, I think, that will lend itself to other challenges to other laws affecting transgender children, and then also possibly affecting other transgender people. She mentioned a couple of examples in particular. She said that laws affecting transgender people, because transgender people are not a suspect class ...
... transgender youth. The position contradicts guidance from major medical organizations. But it could impact practices.Other actions Trump has taken include initiating the removal of transgender troops from military service; ordering that transgender women and girls be kept out of sports competitions for females; erasing the word "transgender" from some ...
Kobick first issued a preliminary injunction against the policy last month, but that ruling applied only to six people who joined with the American Civil Liberties Union in a lawsuit over the passport policy.
But the justices on Wednesday declined to apply the same sort of analysis the court used in 2020 when it found that “sex plays an unmistakable role” in employers’ decisions to punish transgender people for traits and behavior they otherwise tolerate. There are about 300,000 people between the ages ...
... fair amount” of social acceptance in the U.S. for gay and lesbian people. Only about 1 in 10 said the same for nonbinary and transgender people — and about half said there was “not much” or no acceptance at all for transgender people. Giovonni Santiago, a 39-year-old transgender ...
... a service member, the senior defense official said. It comes after the Supreme Court recently ruled that the Trump administration could enforce the ban on transgender people in the military while other legal challenges proceed. The court’s three liberal justices said they would have kept the policy on hold ...
There are about 2.1 million total troops serving. The memo released Thursday mirrors one sent out in February, but any action was stalled at that point by several lawsuits. The Supreme Court ruled that the administration could enforce the ban on transgender people in the military, while other legal ...
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