• Advocates say transgender woman sexually assaulted at ICE facility

    Advocates say transgender woman sexually assaulted at ICE facility

    Mar 13, 2020 09:51 PM EDT

    ... 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 EDT

    ... 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 EDT

    ... 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 EDT

    ... 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 EDT

    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 ...

  • N.C. settlement affirms transgender people's right to use restrooms matching their gender identity

    N.C. settlement affirms transgender people's right to use restrooms matching their gender identity

    Jul 23, 2019 06:14 PM EDT

    ... 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 ...

  • Supreme Court rejects appeal over transgender bathrooms

    Supreme Court rejects appeal over transgender bathrooms

    May 28, 2019 02:07 PM EDT

    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 ...

  • Why violence against transgender Americans is a crisis that’s under reported

    Why violence against transgender Americans is a crisis that’s under reported

    May 24, 2019 10:40 PM EDT

    ... 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 ...

  • Trump administration moves to revoke transgender health protection

    Trump administration moves to revoke transgender health protection

    May 24, 2019 09:31 PM EDT

    ... 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 ...

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    Transgender woman seen in videotaped attack found dead in Texas

    May 20, 2019 04:54 PM EDT

    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 ...