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

    Jan Morris, author and transgender pioneer, dies at 94

    Nov 20, 2020 08:21 PM EDT

    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 EDT

    ... 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 EDT

    ... 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 EDT

    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 EDT

    ... 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 ...

  • Trump administration revokes transgender health protections

    Trump administration revokes transgender health protections

    Jun 12, 2020 10:55 PM EDT

    ... Graves, president of the National Women's Law Center. The ACLU says it has already moved to try to prevent the rollback of protections for transgender people. More than 1.5 million Americans identify as transgender, according to the Williams Institute, a think tank focusing on LGBT policy at the ...

  • Transgender bathroom ban heard by federal appeals court

    Transgender bathroom ban heard by federal appeals court

    May 26, 2020 10:04 PM EDT

    ... that the Board's policy discriminates against transgender students on the basis of their gender noncomformity," Allen wrote. "Under the policy, all students except for transgender students may use restrooms corresponding with their gender identity," she continued. "Transgender students are singled out, subjected to discriminatory treatment, and excluded from spaces ...

  • Michigan woman at center of transgender rights case dies

    Michigan woman at center of transgender rights case dies

    May 12, 2020 08:08 PM EDT

    DETROIT (AP) — A Detroit-area woman who was fired by a funeral home after she no longer wanted to be recognized as a man died Tuesday before the U.S. Supreme Court could rule on whether federal civil rights law protects transgender people. Aimee Stephens' death was announced by the ...

  • Transgender woman awaits Supreme Court ruling in hospice

    Transgender woman awaits Supreme Court ruling in hospice

    May 11, 2020 06:54 PM EDT

    GARDEN CITY, Mich. (AP) — A Detroit-area woman at the center of a U.S. Supreme Court case about transgender rights is in hospice care while awaiting a decision. Aimee Stephens has kidney disease and was in a wheelchair when the court heard arguments in October, The Detroit News reported ...

  • Federal lawsuit challenges Idaho's transgender sports ban

    Federal lawsuit challenges Idaho's transgender sports ban

    Apr 15, 2020 08:23 PM EDT

    ... 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 1972 Title IX legislation that ...