• Hungary passes constitutional amendment to ban LGBTQ+ public events

    Hungary passes constitutional amendment to ban LGBTQ+ public events

    Apr 14, 2025 10:11 PM EST

    Döbrentey, the lawyer, said it was “a clear message” for transgender and intersex people: “It is definitely and purely and strictly about humiliating people and excluding them, not just from the national community, but even from the community of human beings." The amendment is the 15th to Hungary’s constitution ...

  • Iowa Republican Gov. Reynolds says she won't seek reelection in surprise announcement

    Iowa Republican Gov. Reynolds says she won't seek reelection in surprise announcement

    Apr 11, 2025 04:25 PM EST

    ... available to any student in the coming year. Reynolds’ proposed budget line for the accounts next year reached $314 million. She backed policies to restrict transgender students’ use of bathrooms and locker rooms, and their participation on sports teams, in an effort to protect people assigned female at birth. This ...

  • WATCH: 'Hands Off' protest against Trump and Musk's federal cuts in Washington, D.C.

    WATCH: 'Hands Off' protest against Trump and Musk's federal cuts in Washington, D.C.

    Apr 05, 2025 04:06 PM EST

    ... administration's moves to fire thousands of federal workers, close Social Security Administration field offices, effectively shutter entire agencies, deport immigrants, scale back protections for transgender people and cut federal funding for health programs. Musk, a Trump adviser who owns Tesla, SpaceX and the social media platform X, has played ...

  • Federal judge plans to temporarily block billions in health funding cuts to states

    Federal judge plans to temporarily block billions in health funding cuts to states

    Apr 03, 2025 09:26 PM EST

    ... for the Trump administration, which is facing some 150 lawsuits on issues ranging from immigration to deep financial and job cuts at federal agencies to transgender rights. Federal judges have issued dozens of orders slowing — at least for now — the president’s ambitious conservative agenda. AP reporter Lindsay Whitehurst in ...

  • Worker rights agency chief signals shift of focus to Trump's campaign to stamp out

    Worker rights agency chief signals shift of focus to Trump's campaign to stamp out

    Apr 03, 2025 03:52 PM EST

    ... guidelines and policies that may contradict Trump's slew of executive orders, though the EEOC has already moved to drop seven lawsuits alleging discrimination against transgender and nonbinary people in response to a presidential order declaring the government would only recognize the male and female genders. Changing such policies — including ...

  • Trump administration deports more immigrants to El Salvador amid battle with judiciary

    Trump administration deports more immigrants to El Salvador amid battle with judiciary

    Mar 31, 2025 10:45 PM EST

    ... hired or employed lawyers who took positions against the administration. They represented Democratic political officials. They took on representation of people who were advocating for transgender individuals, right? And so the administration is expressly saying, if you do these things, if you represent people we don't like, issues we ...

  • Election watchdog groups sue Trump administration over executive order, calling it unconstitutional

    Election watchdog groups sue Trump administration over executive order, calling it unconstitutional

    Mar 31, 2025 09:59 PM EST

    ... flurry of executive actions Trump has taken during the first months of his second term. Federal judges have partially or fully blocked many of them, including efforts to restrict birthright citizenship, ban transgender people from military service and curb diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives among federal contractors and grant recipients.

  • What happens to health research when 'women' and 'diversity' are banned words?

    What happens to health research when 'women' and 'diversity' are banned words?

    Mar 30, 2025 07:41 PM EST

    ... that no modifications of their projects will change the agency’s decision. Flatt noted that in recent weeks, some people have suggested that they exclude transgender people from their studies. Flatt said excluding people of all genders is not pro-science. “I refuse to do that,” they said. “The administration ...

  • How U.S. colleges are navigating cuts to grants for research after Trump restricts federal funding

    How U.S. colleges are navigating cuts to grants for research after Trump restricts federal funding

    Mar 28, 2025 01:45 PM EST

    ... say. At Penn, the administration suspended $175 million in federal funding from the Defense Department and the Department of Health and Human Services over a transgender swimmer who last competed for the school in 2022. The White House said the action came out of a review of discretionary money going ...

  • Anti-abortion groups aiming to defund Planned Parenthood look to DOGE to get it done

    Anti-abortion groups aiming to defund Planned Parenthood look to DOGE to get it done

    Mar 27, 2025 10:45 PM EST

    ... abortion activists who had been convicted of blockading abortion clinics and used wording related to fetal personhood in an executive order rolling back protections for transgender people. The Republican president has appointed abortion opponents to some key Cabinet positions that could affect the availability of medication abortion and contraception, Medicaid ...