Bills that affect access to medical care might have serious health implications, but the legislation that is getting the most attention seeks to bar transgender people from competing on sports teams that align with their gender identity. More than half of the proposed legislation around transgender rights this year is ...
... s veto in Arkansas. Hutchinson said he believed an override was likely. Hutchinson's veto follow pleas from pediatricians, social workers and the parents of transgender youth who said the measure would harm a community already at risk for depression and suicide. Hutchinson said he met with doctors and transgender ...
... days with near disbelief. Millions of people now recognize March 31 as a day to celebrate transgender people worldwide. Every major LGBTQ+ rights organization recognizes Transgender Day of Visibility with community gatherings, panels and celebrations. Skyscrapers across the nation light up with light pink, blue and white — transgender pride colors ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon on Wednesday will sweep away Trump-era policies that largely banned transgender people from serving in the military, issuing new rules that offer them wider access to medical care and assistance with gender transition, defense officials told The Associated Press. The new department regulations allow transgender ...
... faster and bigger than those born female. The bill had included enforcement mechanisms and required schools to annually gather documentation of athletes' sex at birth. Transgender advocates said efforts to bar transgender girls and women from sports deprive transgender children of a chance to belong to a sports team when ...
Levine replied that transgender medicine "is a very complex and nuanced field with robust research and standards of care" and said she would welcome discussing the issues with him. In the past, Levine has asserted that hormone therapy and puberty-blocking drugs can be valuable medical tools in sparing some ...
... we’re living in times of pandemic,” she said via translator. “I had hoped the landlord would be understanding if we pay late.” For the transgender community, coping with the stresses of housing discrimination will require them to rely on one another. Figgins said especially in times of crisis, the ...
... president of the LGBTQ civil rights organization Human Rights Campaign, said in a statement Thursday that the Mississippi law could lead to more bullying of transgender people. “This law is a solution in search of a problem, and legislators in Mississippi have not provided any examples of Mississippi transgender athletes ...
... most Republicans supporting it and most Democrats either opposing it or refraining from voting.Republican legislators who pushed the bill gave no evidence of any transgender athletes competing in Mississippi schools or universities. A Mississippi mother with a transgender daughter spoke Thursday during the Human Rights Campaign news conference. Katy ...
... members could be discharged from the military for being transgender, but that changed during the Obama administration. In 2016, Defense Secretary Ash Carter announced that transgender people already serving in the military would be allowed to serve openly. And the military set July 1, 2017, as the date when transgender ...
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