• Hagel: Military should review policy on transgender individuals

    Hagel: Military should review policy on transgender individuals

    May 11, 2014 08:03 PM EST

    ... time for the U.S. to join them," said Allyson Robinson, the group's policy director and a former Army captain. A military review of transgender issues could occur as it also deals with questions about how to treat transgender prisoners. Chelsea Manning, a former Army private serving a 35 ...

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    Va. policy opens doors for transgender student-athletes, but does it go far enough?

    Feb 21, 2014 03:57 PM EST

    A state board in Virginia on Wednesday approved a new policy that will allow transgender high school student-athletes to play a given sport based on the gender with which they identify. According to U.S. News and World Report, at least 10 other states no longer restrict athletic participation ...

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    Court rules in favor of transgender student's right to use the girls' bathroom

    Jan 31, 2014 11:07 PM EST

    Maine's highest court Thursday that school officials who prevented a transgender student from using the girls' bathroom violated state anti-discrimination laws. In the first ruling of its kind, the Maine Supreme Judicial Court concluded that a transgender person should use the bathroom consistent with the gender with which ...

  • 'Show the warrants.' Maine's governor demands data on arrests as fear spreads over federal immigration operations

    'Show the warrants.' Maine's governor demands data on arrests as fear spreads over federal immigration operations

    Jan 22, 2026 09:08 PM EST

    ... said. “If someone has evidence of criminal activity, we want to hear about it.” WATCH: 'See you in court,' Maine's governor tells Trump on transgender athlete ban Mills said school districts have gone “on alert,” particularly in Portland and Lewiston, and that some students have not been attending classes ...

  • January 13, 2026 - PBS News Hour full episode

    January 13, 2026 - PBS News Hour full episode

    Jan 14, 2026 12:47 AM EST

    Tuesday on the News Hour, in the deadliest street protests since Iran's revolution, demonstrators face a ruthless crackdown while President Trump promises help is on the way. The Supreme Court hears a landmark case on whether transgender people can be banned from girls' and women's sports. Plus, survivors ...

  • A look at the legal and political fight over trans athletes as cases reach Supreme Court

    A look at the legal and political fight over trans athletes as cases reach Supreme Court

    Jan 13, 2026 11:40 PM EST

    ... to understand how you can say that this law doesn't classify on the basis of transgender status. The law expressly aims to ensure that transgender women can't play on women's sports teams. So why is that not a classification on the basis of transgender status? Liz Landers ...

  • Paris court finds 10 guilty of cyberbullying French first lady Brigitte Macron

    Paris court finds 10 guilty of cyberbullying French first lady Brigitte Macron

    Jan 05, 2026 07:51 PM EST

    ... ordered to attend cyberbullying awareness training. The court pointed to “particularly degrading, insulting, and malicious” comments referring to false claims suggesting that Brigitte Macron was transgender and a pedophile. “Repeated publications have had cumulative harmful effects,” the court said. The defendants, eight men and two women ranging in age from ...

  • Federal employees file complaint against Trump administration's ban on gender-affirming care

    Federal employees file complaint against Trump administration's ban on gender-affirming care

    Jan 01, 2026 04:09 PM EST

    ... is sex-based discrimination and asks the personnel office to rescind the policy. “This policy is not about cost or care — it is about driving transgender people and people with transgender spouses, children, and dependents out of the federal workforce,” Human Rights Campaign Foundation President Kelley Robinson said in a ...

  • With major Supreme Court rulings ahead, Chief Justice Roberts says Constitution remains 'firm and unshaken'

    With major Supreme Court rulings ahead, Chief Justice Roberts says Constitution remains 'firm and unshaken'

    Dec 31, 2025 11:26 PM EST

    ... two dozen wins on the Supreme Court’s emergency docket. The court's conservative majority has allowed Trump to move ahead for now with banning transgender people from the military, clawing back billions of dollars of congressionally approved federal spending, moving aggressively on immigration and firing the Senate-confirmed leaders ...

  • Tracking how much of Project 2025 the Trump administration achieved this year

    Tracking how much of Project 2025 the Trump administration achieved this year

    Dec 24, 2025 11:47 PM EST

    ... federal departments. Project 2025 military priorities accomplished by the Trump administration: Project 2025 called to end any public funding of gender-affirming health care for transgender service members. In May, the Pentagon announced it was halting new hormone treatments and surgical procedures. Project 2025 also said policies allowing transgender people ...