For Caroline Temmermand, who spent 2.5 years doing speech therapy at George Washington University’s transgender voice clinic, changing her voice was a question of personal comfort. “After [my family] found out I was transgender, and I started presenting as the person I am, I wanted them to feel ...
WASHINGTON — Big companies are pushing back against proposed federal rules they say would require their medical plans to cover gender transition and other services under the nondiscrimination mandate of President Barack Obama's health care law. Civil rights advocates representing transgender people say the regulation, now being finalized by the ...
... executive director of the National Center for Transgender Equality, said she is grateful there are transgender Republicans and would like to see the issue of transgender rights addressed on a nonpartisan basis. She also said it is inevitable that the ranks of transgender Americans would grow more diverse. "Trans people ...
South Dakota Gov. Dennis Daugaard has vetoed a bill that would have restricted transgender students’ access to restrooms in public schools. Without the veto, South Dakota would have become the first state in the nation to require that transgender students only use school restrooms that correspond to their sex at ...
... JUDY WOODRUFF: Now to a battle emerging in some states over schools and rights for transgender students. South Dakota's governor, Dennis Daugaard, must decide by tomorrow whether he will sign or veto a bill that would make his state the first in the country to restrict transgender students ...
... brought successful sex discrimination claims under the 1964 Civil Rights Act and due process clause of the Constitution, according to Dru Levasseur, who directs the Transgender Rights Project at LGBT legal group Lambda Legal. "We know that transgender people are protected under federal law, and there seems to be some ...
UPDATED 3:14 p.m. EST Feb. 18 | South Dakota Gov. Dennis Daugaard announced Wednesday that he would meet with transgender students and LGBT activists from the Center for Equality before making a decision to sign into law a bill that would restrict transgender students’ access to restrooms in public ...
WASHINGTON -- A group of lawmakers kicked off a new congressional task force for transgender rights on Tuesday with the first-ever congressional forum on transgender life in the U.S. The LGBT Equality Caucus announced the creation of the Transgender Equality Task Force last week. It is chaired by Rep ...
... to locker rooms for transgender students is at the center of debate in several states. The Palatine case is being looked at by many as a test case for the entire country. Illinois is one of several states that prohibits discrimination against transgender people in housing, employment and public accommodations.
... says is they cannot exclude transgender people from the services that other people have," said Harper Jean Tobin, policy director for the National Center for Transgender Equality. Currently, 10 states plus Washington, D.C., require private insurers to cover transgender health care, while six states plus the nation's capital ...
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