• Supreme Court allows Trump's transgender military ban to take effect, for now

    Supreme Court allows Trump's transgender military ban to take effect, for now

    May 06, 2025 06:22 PM EST

    WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Tuesday allowed President Donald Trump’s administration to enforce a ban on transgender people in the military, while legal challenges proceed. The court acted in the dispute over a policy that presumptively disqualifies transgender people from military service. The court’s three liberal justices ...

  • Trump's HHS urges therapy for transgender youth, departing from broader gender-affirming health care

    Trump's HHS urges therapy for transgender youth, departing from broader gender-affirming health care

    May 01, 2025 02:53 PM EST

    ... the government to identify people as either male or female rather than accept a concept of gender in which people fall along a spectrum, remove transgender service members from the military, and bar transgender women and girls from sports competitions that align with their gender. This month, HHS issued guidance ...

  • Trump asks Supreme Court to allow ban on transgender military members, for now

    Trump asks Supreme Court to allow ban on transgender military members, for now

    Apr 24, 2025 05:02 PM EST

    ... lifestyle, even in one's personal life" and is harmful to military readiness. In response, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a policy that presumptively disqualifies transgender people from military service. But in March, U.S. District Court Judge Benjamin Settle in Tacoma, Washington, ruled for several long-serving transgender military ...

  • Federal judge blocks Trump's passport policy affecting transgender Americans

    Federal judge blocks Trump's passport policy affecting transgender Americans

    Apr 18, 2025 10:37 PM EST

    ... related to an important governmental interest. The government has failed to meet this standard.” The ACLU, which sued the Trump administration on behalf of five transgender Americans and two nonbinary plaintiffs, said the new policy would effectively mean transgender, nonbinary and intersex Americans could not get an accurate passport. “We ...

  • News Wrap: DOJ sues Maine over transgender athletes

    News Wrap: DOJ sues Maine over transgender athletes

    Apr 16, 2025 10:50 PM EST

    In our news wrap Wednesday, the Trump administration sued Maine for allowing transgender athletes to play in women's sports, California is suing the Trump administration over the president's sweeping tariff policy, a military base in Georgia returned to its old name of Fort Benning and a new CDC study says depression has become more common...

  • Top UK court says definition of woman based on biological sex, excludes transgender people

    Top UK court says definition of woman based on biological sex, excludes transgender people

    Apr 16, 2025 06:19 PM EST

    ... wrote on X that “in winning, they’ve protected the rights of women and girls across the U.K.”Opponents, including Amnesty International, said excluding transgender people from sex discrimination protections conflicted with human rights laws. Amnesty submitted a brief in court saying it was concerned about the deterioration of ...

  • WATCH: Bondi announces lawsuit against Maine over transgender athletes playing in girls sports

    WATCH: Bondi announces lawsuit against Maine over transgender athletes playing in girls sports

    Apr 16, 2025 02:03 PM EST

    ... in the law "prohibits schools from allowing transgender girls and women to participate on girls' and women's sports teams." Questions over the rights of transgender people have become a major political issue in the past five years. Twenty-six states have laws or policies barring transgender girls from girls ...

  • WATCH: First Transgender Day of Visibility rally in Washington, D.C. amid new Trump administration

    WATCH: First Transgender Day of Visibility rally in Washington, D.C. amid new Trump administration

    Mar 31, 2025 04:44 PM EST

    ... transgender women and girls competing in women’s and girls sports. And several other Democratic officials have said the party spends too much effort supporting transgender rights. Others, including U.S. Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto, have said they oppose transgender athletes in girls and women’s sports. Jay Jones, the ...

  • Federal judge blocks Trump ban on transgender people serving in military

    Federal judge blocks Trump ban on transgender people serving in military

    Mar 19, 2025 01:34 AM EST

    ... of discriminating against transgender people. Federal judges in Seattle and Baltimore separately paused Trump's executive order halting federal support for gender-affirming care for transgender youth under 19. Last month, a judge blocked prison officials from transferring three incarcerated transgender women to men's facilities and terminating their access ...

  • What science tells us about transgender athletes

    What science tells us about transgender athletes

    Mar 07, 2025 11:35 PM EST

    ... Bradley Anawalt: None of these genetic variations or mutations have created the uproar that we're facing with the current controversy that we have around transgender athletes and participation in sports.Laura Barron-Lopez: You have said we're never going to be able to answer the fundamental question about ...