• 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 EST

    ... 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 EST

    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 EST

    ... 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 EST

    ... 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 EST

    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 ...

  • Morehouse College to begin taking transgender men next year

    Morehouse College to begin taking transgender men next year

    Apr 13, 2019 09:05 PM EST

    ... 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&amp ...

  • Military's transgender policy scientifically 'deficient,' American Medical Association says

    Military's transgender policy scientifically 'deficient,' American Medical Association says

    Apr 11, 2019 07:40 PM EST

    ... 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 ...

  • News Wrap: Non-binding House resolution opposes transgender military ban

    News Wrap: Non-binding House resolution opposes transgender military ban

    Mar 28, 2019 10:55 PM EST

    ... 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 ...

  • Transgender care cost military less than 1 percent of its health budget since 2016

    Transgender care cost military less than 1 percent of its health budget since 2016

    Feb 27, 2019 06:55 PM EST

    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 ...

  • Virginia school district reconsiders transgender bathroom rules, rejects sex change on transcripts

    Virginia school district reconsiders transgender bathroom rules, rejects sex change on transcripts

    Feb 17, 2019 06:45 PM EST

    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.