• Trump administration revokes transgender health protections

    Trump administration revokes transgender health protections

    Jun 12, 2020 10:55 PM EST

    ... 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 EST

    ... 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 EST

    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 EST

    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 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 1972 Title IX legislation that ...

  • Advocates say transgender woman sexually assaulted at ICE facility

    Advocates say transgender woman sexually assaulted at ICE facility

    Mar 13, 2020 09:51 PM EST

    ... upholding an immigration detention system that prioritizes the health, safety, and welfare of all of those in its care and custody, including lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and intersex (LGBTI) individuals," spokeswoman Yasmeen Pitts O'Keefe wrote. However, the nation's only housing for transgender migrants was located in New Mexico ...

  • Transgender woman poised to make Argentine soccer history

    Transgender woman poised to make Argentine soccer history

    Feb 15, 2020 01:42 AM EST

    ... in last place in the current first division tournament and is fighting to not descend a division. Argentina's soccer federation has no regulations about transgender athletes, so doubt remains about what it will say amid the debate over whether transgender women should play in professional women's leagues. The ...

  • Girls sue to block participation of transgender athletes

    Girls sue to block participation of transgender athletes

    Feb 12, 2020 09:29 PM EST

    ... immediate comment on Wednesday's lawsuit. Miller did not immediately respond to a request for comment. The attorneys are asking the court to prevent the transgender girls from competing while the lawsuit moves forward. No hearing date on that request had been scheduled Wednesday, the day before the state's ...

  • Arizona bill would ban transgender girls, women from sports teams

    Arizona bill would ban transgender girls, women from sports teams

    Jan 25, 2020 02:27 AM EST

    ... pushing bills that would bar doctors from providing them certain gender-related medical treatment. The proposed laws, if enacted, "would bring devastating harms to the transgender community," Chase Strangio, a transgender-rights lawyer with the ACLU. "It is hard to imagine why state legislators have decided to prioritize barring transgender ...

  • Author J.K. Rowling draws criticism for transgender comments

    Author J.K. Rowling draws criticism for transgender comments

    Dec 19, 2019 08:59 PM EST

    NEW YORK — J.K. Rowling is facing widespread criticism from the transgender community and other activists after tweeting support for a researcher who lost her job for stating that people cannot change their biological sex. The researcher, Maya Forstater, had been a visiting fellow at the Centre for Global Development ...