... 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 ...
... Tuesday. Freedman-Gurspan is an outreach and recruitment director for presidential personnel in the Office of Personnel. Transgender advocates say she is the first openly transgender official to serve in the White House. Freedman-Gurspan previously was a policy adviser for the National Center for Transgender Equality's racial and ...
At a time when transgender models are gaining more recognition than ever, Thailand-based firm Apple Model Management is set to open the world’s first modeling agency for transgender models this summer in Los Angeles. The agency began representing transgender models in 2014 and its new branch in L ...
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