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  • Supreme Court upholds Tennessee law banning gender-affirming care for transgender minors

    Supreme Court upholds Tennessee law banning gender-affirming care for transgender minors

    Jun 18, 2025 10:55 PM EST

    ... 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 ...

  • What to know about the Supreme Court's ruling on transgender care for youth

    What to know about the Supreme Court's ruling on transgender care for youth

    Jun 18, 2025 07:45 PM EST

    ... 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 ...

  • Judge says Trump administration can't limit passport sex markers for many transgender, nonbinary people

    Judge says Trump administration can't limit passport sex markers for many transgender, nonbinary people

    Jun 18, 2025 05:36 PM EST

    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.

  • Supreme Court delivers major blow to transgender rights, upholding Tennessee ban on gender-affirming care for minors

    Supreme Court delivers major blow to transgender rights, upholding Tennessee ban on gender-affirming care for minors

    Jun 18, 2025 02:27 PM EST

    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 ...

  • Most LGBTQ+ adults feel Americans don't accept transgender people, poll finds

    Most LGBTQ+ adults feel Americans don't accept transgender people, poll finds

    May 30, 2025 06:17 PM EST

    ... 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 ...

  • Military commanders told to identify troops for medical checks under Trump administration's transgender ban

    Military commanders told to identify troops for medical checks under Trump administration's transgender ban

    May 16, 2025 02:33 PM EST

    ... 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 ...

  • Up to 1,000 transgender troops are being separated from the military in new Pentagon order

    Up to 1,000 transgender troops are being separated from the military in new Pentagon order

    May 08, 2025 11:09 PM EST

    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 ...

  • Supreme Court allows Trump's transgender military ban to take effect, for now

    Supreme Court allows Trump's transgender military ban to take effect, for now

    May 06, 2025 06:22 PM EST

    WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Tuesday allowed President Donald Trump’s administration to enforce a ban on transgender people in the military, while legal challenges proceed. The court acted in the dispute over a policy that presumptively disqualifies transgender people from military service. The court’s three liberal justices ...

  • Trump's HHS urges therapy for transgender youth, departing from broader gender-affirming health care

    Trump's HHS urges therapy for transgender youth, departing from broader gender-affirming health care

    May 01, 2025 02:53 PM EST

    ... the government to identify people as either male or female rather than accept a concept of gender in which people fall along a spectrum, remove transgender service members from the military, and bar transgender women and girls from sports competitions that align with their gender. This month, HHS issued guidance ...

  • Trump asks Supreme Court to allow ban on transgender military members, for now

    Trump asks Supreme Court to allow ban on transgender military members, for now

    Apr 24, 2025 05:02 PM EST

    ... lifestyle, even in one's personal life" and is harmful to military readiness. In response, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a policy that presumptively disqualifies transgender people from military service. But in March, U.S. District Court Judge Benjamin Settle in Tacoma, Washington, ruled for several long-serving transgender military ...

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