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... current and future governors, and their employees at state agencies are forbidden from using current state law "to bar, prohibit, block, deter, or impede any transgender individuals from using public facilities ... in accordance with the transgender individual's gender identity." In return, plaintiffs have agreed to drop pending legal action ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court will not take up a challenge to a Pennsylvania school district's policy allowing transgender students to use bathrooms and locker rooms that correspond with their sexual identity. The justices on Tuesday rejected an appeal from students who argued that allowing transgender students to use ...
... put in place allowing federal shelters receiving funds to turn away trans people serving -- seeking services there. There's also the efforts to push a transgender military ban here. What effect have all of these even just proposals had on the trans community? Beverly Tillery: Yes. I mean, talk about ...
... Court challenges are expected. "Despite the goals of this White House ... courts have been clear for decades that prohibitions on sex discrimination encompass discrimination against transgender individuals," said Louise Melling, deputy legal director with the American Civil Liberties Union. Her organization, she added, will challenge the proposal in court. Melling ...
DALLAS (AP) — A 23-year-old transgender woman seen on a widely circulated video being beaten in front of a crowd of people was found dead over the weekend in a Dallas shooting, police said. Muhlaysia Booker was found face-down in a street early Saturday, and no suspect has ...
... has a scholars program named for civil and gay rights icon Bayard Rustin.Spelman College, an all-woman HBCU next door to Morehouse, adopted a transgender policy in 2017, and the first transgender woman graduated in 2018. Other HBCUs with transgender policies include Tuskegee University, Howard University, Florida A& ...
... emotional control, or behavior.'" An estimated 14,700 troops identify as transgender. Military chiefs testified before Congress last year that they found no problems with transgender troops on morale or unit cohesion. Many have received medals since the armed forces welcomed them in 2016. Transgender troops say the regulation mirrors ...
... the right to drive and other freedoms. Back in this country, the U.S. House voted today to oppose the Trump administration's ban on transgender people serving in the military. The nonbinding resolution passed along party lines. Democrats called the policy targeted discrimination. Republicans said that today's vote ...
The administration's expected policy would allow transgender people to serve if they remain in their biological sex. It would grandfather in current service members, though the government has also said it retains the right to eliminate that protection. Transgender troops say the ban mirrors the "don't ask, don ...
For nearly four years, Gavin Grimm has been suing his former school district after it banned him from using the boys bathrooms in high school.
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