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... HARI SREENIVASAN: It's been nearly a year since the secretary of defense declared the military's ban on transgender soldiers -- quote -- "outdated," but the Pentagon has yet to issue any new directives, despite deadlines. William Brangham explores what it means to be transgender in the armed forces. WILLIAM ...
... Justice Department says the measure violates civil rights laws and seeks a court order to block it. Lynch's announcement — and her reassurance to the transgender community that "we see you" — brought tears to the eyes of Stephen Wiseman, a 37-year-old social worker and transgender man in Asheville ...
Editor’s Note: Last month, North Carolina’s state legislature passed HB2 -- a controversial bill that requires transgender people to use the bathroom correlated with the gender on their birth certificate. The law also excludes gay and transgender people from anti-discrimination protections. On May 4, the U.S. Justice ...
An appeals court ruled on Tuesday in favor of a transgender student who says that his school violated anti-discrimination laws by not allowing him to use the bathroom that matches his gender. Gavin Grimm, now a junior at Gloucester High School in Virginia, transitioned to male during his sophomore ...
A 10-minute, face-to-face conversation can reduce transphobia, according to researchers at Stanford University and the University of California Berkeley.
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 ...
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