... 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.
The Supreme Court dealt with some of the most politically charged issues in the nation on Tuesday. National Law Journal’s Marcia Coyle joins Judy Woodruff to discuss why the Court's removal of the injunction on banning transgender military service people was "a little surprising," as well as an upcoming gun case with broad implications for...
Army Chief of Staff and incoming Chairman of the Joint Chiefs General Mark Milley told a congressional hearing last year he agreed. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y.: Have you since heard anything how transgender service members are harming unit cohesion? Mark Milley: No, I have received precisely zero reports ...
... years ago service members could be discharged from the military for being transgender. That changed under President Barack Obama. The military announced in 2016 that transgender individuals 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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