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... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... Trump, who had won repeated victories in emergency appeals since he took office again in January. The conservative-dominated court has allowed Trump to ban transgender people from the military, claw back billions of dollars of congressionally approved federal spending, move aggressively against immigrants and fire the Senate-confirmed leaders ...
... become women, women cannot become men. He's speaking about adults. And that is kind of the foundation of understanding what it means to be transgender. So there was that thread throughout the whole event today that transgender people don't exist in the world view that you were hearing ...
It made for some awkwardness when Trump asked a silent room for applause after thanking Sykes for the USOPC’s move on the transgender policy. “Some of this is almost to the point of parody,” said Niven, the Cincinnati professor. “They’re just shiny things that are in front of ...
... new PBS News poll as Americans worry about affordability. Some House Republicans buck party leadership, forcing a vote to extend Affordable Care Act subsidies. Plus, we catch up with a transgender teen and her parents, who left Texas because of the state's ban on transgender health care for minors.
Pete Hegseth, U.S. Defense Secretary: Expressing a false gender identity divergent from an individual's sex cannot satisfy the rigorous standards necessary for military service. Donald Trump: The war on women's sports is over. (Cheering) William Brangham: The administration threatened to withhold funding from states where transgender girls ...
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