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  • 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 ...

  • WATCH: Trump hosts celebration of Women's History Month at White House

    WATCH: Trump hosts celebration of Women's History Month at White House

    Mar 26, 2025 06:01 PM EST

    ... he got to Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, Trump said, “I owe you a call. I’ll call you.” Trump also criticized Democrats’ record on transgender issues at the event, saying the previous administration wanted to “abolish the very concept of womanhood.” “No matter how many surgeries you have or ...

  • Trump administration asks Supreme Court to halt judge's order to rehire probationary federal workers

    Trump administration asks Supreme Court to halt judge's order to rehire probationary federal workers

    Mar 24, 2025 02:30 PM EST

    ... administration more than three dozen times after finding violations of federal law. The rulings run the gamut from birthright citizenship changes to federal spending to transgender rights. The order appealed Monday was one of two handed down the same day that both found separate legal problems with the way the ...

  • While Trump’s trans military ban is challenged in court, long-serving troops prepare for what's next

    While Trump’s trans military ban is challenged in court, long-serving troops prepare for what's next

    Mar 21, 2025 10:23 PM EST

    He told everyone that he was raised as a girl. He said he was taking testosterone to transition to living as a man. He was willing to explain to anyone what being transgender meant. “At the end of the day, we have a job to do,” he remembered telling the ...

  • Colleges cut ties with The PhD Project, a nonprofit targeted by Trump administration over DEI

    Colleges cut ties with The PhD Project, a nonprofit targeted by Trump administration over DEI

    Mar 21, 2025 08:45 PM EST

    ... may see reason not to push back. The Trump administration has shown willingness to withhold federal funding over issues involving antisemitism allegations, diversity programs and transgender athletes. At Columbia University, under fire for its handling of pro-Palestinian protests, the administration pulled $400 million in federal money and threatened billions ...

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