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... a planned exhibit at the National Portrait Gallery after officials raised concerns over her painting “Trans Forming Liberty, 2024,” in which she depicts a nonbinary transgender person posing as the Statue of Liberty. Sherald is best known for her painting of then-first lady Michelle Obama, which was commissioned by ...
... the coronavirus pandemic, Hurricanes Helene and Florence and a law that became an early flashpoint in the culture wars over access to public restrooms by transgender people. That “bathroom bill” was rolled back early in Cooper's first term, and the state’s economy soared during Cooper’s tenure. While ...
... been dogged by conspiracy theories that Brigitte was born as a man named Jean-Michel Trogneux, who supposedly then took the name Brigitte as a transgender woman. Jean-Michel Trogneux is, in fact, Brigitte's brother. Last September, Brigitte and Jean-Michel Trogneux won a defamation suit against two women ...
... the University of Pennsylvania in March over a dispute around women's sports. They restored it when school officials agreed to update records set by transgender swimmer Lia Thomas and change their policies. The administration also is looking beyond private universities. University of Virginia President James Ryan agreed to resign ...
Saturday on PBS News Weekend, Trump’s yearslong relationship with Jeffrey Epstein comes under scrutiny. What major cuts at the National Cancer Institute may mean for the fight against the disease. Transgender U.S. service members fight to continue to serve despite the Trump administration banning them from the military ...
... Gibson perform at a bar in San Francisco a decade ago. Their poetry was electrifying, lighting up the room with laughter, tears and love. Gibson's poetry became a shared interest for the mother and son, and eventually helped Stay better understand her son when he came out as transgender.
... hosted Trump's allies on his podcast, even stunning some members of his own party by agreeing with podcast guests on issues such as restricting transgender women and girls in sports. Saying dismantling police departments was “lunacy," Newsom also kept silent when longtime Trump ally Steve Bannon falsely said Trump ...
... Gavin Newsom issued a posthumous pardon in 2020, acknowledging Rustin had been subjected to discrimination. Rustin and figures such as Marsha P. Johnson, a prominent transgender activist during the gay rights movement, continue inspire the LGBTQ+ community because they “were super intentional and unapologetic in the ways in which they ...
... a concurring opinion and said -- in which she would have gone further and reached an issue that the majority didn't address, whether or not transgender people are a suspect or a protected class. And then they issued a decision in a case out of Montgomery County, Maryland, in the ...
A provision that would have prohibited Medicaid from covering gender-affirming care for transgender people — minors and adults — was stripped out by the Senate parliamentarian. But the Senate parliamentarian approved a provision that would prevent Planned Parenthood and other reproductive health care clinics from receiving Medicaid reimbursements for the provision ...
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