WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Jim Mattis is giving the military chiefs another six months to conduct a review to determine if allowing transgender individuals to enlist in the armed services will affect the "readiness or lethality" of the force. Pentagon spokeswoman Dana White said Mattis made the decision Friday. The delay ...
WASHINGTON — Military chiefs will seek a six-month delay before letting transgender people enlist in their services, officials said Friday. After meetings this week, the service leaders hammered out an agreement that rejected Army and Air Force requests for a two-year wait and reflected broader concerns that a longer ...
... transgender community, says 59-year-old Stacey Rice, executive co-director of Q Center, a Portland community support center for LGBTQ individuals. Rice is a transgender woman but still hasn't been able to change her North Carolina birth records after 17 years because she hasn't undergone a sex ...
AUSTIN, Texas — A transgender "bathroom bill" reminiscent of one in North Carolina that caused a national uproar now appears to be on a fast-track to becoming law in Texas — though it may only apply to public schools. A broader proposal mandating that virtually all transgender people in the country ...
... Kochi Metro Rail, told the Guardian. But this marks a minor change in one of the world’s most populous countries and the history of transgender people who live there. In India, feminine transgender people are often referred to as hijras, a word that has taken on a spectrum of ...
... JOHN YANG: In the day's other news: The U.S. Supreme Court said it won't hear a case on transgender bathroom use in public schools after all. A lower court had ruled in favor of a Virginia teenager who wanted access to the boys' bathroom. Since then ...
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court is returning a transgender teen's case to a lower court without reaching a decision. The justices said Monday they have opted not to decide whether federal anti-discrimination law gives high school senior Gavin Grimm the right to use the boys' bathroom in his Virginia ...
https://youtu.be/h3dIbKcJhrg White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer addressed protections for transgender students as well as the Trump administration's immigration policies during a news briefing Thursday. Watch Spicer speak in the player above. The Trump administration on Wednesday ended federal protection for transgender students that required schools ...
Education Secretary Betsy DeVos is defending the decision to rescind public-school bathroom rules for transgender students. Speaking Thursday at the Conservative Political Action Conference, the annual gathering that draws an estimated 10,000 activists to National Harbor in Maryland, she says the guidance "was a huge example of the ...
... that issue. In a phone interview with the AP, Grimm said of the Trump action: "It's not positive. It has the possibility of hurting transgender students and transgender people. We're going to keep fighting like we have been and keep fighting for the right thing." A patchwork of ...
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