• Mississippi governor signs bill banning transgender athletes from competing

    Mississippi governor signs bill banning transgender athletes from competing

    Mar 11, 2021 06:15 PM EST

    ... 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 ...

  • Mississippi governor to sign bill limiting transgender athletes' ability to compete

    Mississippi governor to sign bill limiting transgender athletes' ability to compete

    Mar 04, 2021 08:34 PM EST

    ... 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 ...

  • Biden repeals Trump ban on transgender people in military

    Biden repeals Trump ban on transgender people in military

    Jan 25, 2021 04:36 PM EST

    ... 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 ...

  • Transgender athletes look hopefully to White House transition

    Transgender athletes look hopefully to White House transition

    Jan 15, 2021 08:33 PM EST

    ... administration intervened in support of a lawsuit filed by several non-transgender girls in Connecticut who were seeking to block a state policy that allows transgender athletes to compete in line with their identity. The plaintiffs argued transgender female runners had an unfair physical advantage. But the two transgender runners ...

  • 'All my love, Elliot': 'Umbrella Academy' actor comes out as transgender

    'All my love, Elliot': 'Umbrella Academy' actor comes out as transgender

    Dec 01, 2020 09:53 PM EST

    ... Page has given us fantastic characters on-screen, and has been an outspoken advocate for all LGBTQ people," said Nick Adams, GLAAD's Director of Transgender Media. "He will now be an inspiration to countless trans and non-binary people. All transgender people deserve the chance to be ourselves and ...

  • Jan Morris, author and transgender pioneer, dies at 94

    Jan Morris, author and transgender pioneer, dies at 94

    Nov 20, 2020 08:21 PM EST

    Morris was a prolific and accomplished author and journalist who wrote dozens of books in a variety of genres.

  • Delaware elects country’s first transgender state senator

    Delaware elects country’s first transgender state senator

    Nov 04, 2020 03:26 AM EST

    ... longest-serving legislator in Delaware history. She won in a heavily Democratic district stretching from northern Wilmington to the Pennsylvania border, and joins several other transgender legislators around the country but will be the first transgender state senator. “I think tonight’s results demonstrate what I’ve known my entire ...

  • Philippine leader pardons U.S. Marine in transgender killing

    Philippine leader pardons U.S. Marine in transgender killing

    Sep 07, 2020 06:52 PM EST

    ... motel room, where witnesses said she and Pemberton had checked in. A witness told investigators that Pemberton said he choked Laude after discovering she was transgender. In December 2015, a judge convicted Pemberton of homicide, not the more serious charge of murder that prosecutors sought. The Olongapo court judge said ...

  • Trump rule on transgender health blocked a day before it would take effect

    Trump rule on transgender health blocked a day before it would take effect

    Aug 17, 2020 11:31 PM EST

    WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge blocked the Trump administration on Monday from enforcing a new regulation that would roll back health care protections for transgender people. Finalized days after the Supreme Court barred sex discrimination against LGBT individuals on the job, the regulation from the federal Department of Health and ...

  • Trump administration backs Idaho transgender sports ban

    Trump administration backs Idaho transgender sports ban

    Jun 19, 2020 10:49 PM EST

    ... transgender athletes to compete. But the sponsor of the Idaho law, Republican Barbara Ehardt, has called the NCAA policy "permissive." Ehardt has said that allowing transgender athletes on girls' and women's teams would negate nearly 50 years of progress women have made since the landmark 1972 Title IX federal ...