• News Wrap: Tate brothers return to U.S. after travel ban lifted by prosecutors

    News Wrap: Tate brothers return to U.S. after travel ban lifted by prosecutors

    Feb 27, 2025 11:50 PM EST

    It's a dramatic shift from prior policy, which had prohibited discrimination based on gender identity, though the memo calls for exceptions for those supporting war fighting capabilities. There's more on transgender rights, this time in Iowa. Protesters crowded Iowa's state capitol today as lawmakers passed a bill ...

  • Iowa approves bill removing gender identity protections despite massive protests

    Iowa approves bill removing gender identity protections despite massive protests

    Feb 27, 2025 10:43 PM EST

    ... female based on the reproductive organs at birth following an executive order from President Donald Trump. Trump also signed orders laying the groundwork for banning transgender people from military service and keeping transgender girls and women out of girls and women’s sports competitions, among other things. Most of the ...

  • The Project 2025 policies the Trump administration is already implementing

    The Project 2025 policies the Trump administration is already implementing

    Feb 22, 2025 10:40 PM EST

    ... to, you know, quote, protect minors from gender mutilation. We see that reflected very clearly in an executive order that really focuses on, you know, transgender health care, using that similar language of chemical and surgical mutilation. Really paralleling Project 2025 there and also specifically referring to that Biden administration ...

  • News Wrap: New York governor will not remove Eric Adams from office

    News Wrap: New York governor will not remove Eric Adams from office

    Feb 20, 2025 11:45 PM EST

    And 1.3 percent identify as transgender, more than twice the number in 2020. Experts believe the numbers are rising because more people feel comfortable coming out, but say it could still be an undercount. On Wall Street today, stocks fell back from recent highs. The Dow Jones industrial average ...

  • Commentator Michael Knowles on Trump's power and the conservative movement

    Commentator Michael Knowles on Trump's power and the conservative movement

    Feb 20, 2025 11:35 PM EST

    ... make other people transgender? Is that what you're saying? Michael Knowles: This is also backed up in the medical literature. There was a study in 2018 that showed that school children who are socializing with people who identify as transgender are much more likely to identify as transgender themselves.

  • WATCH: Senate Health committee votes to advance Trump nominee McMahon as education secretary

    WATCH: Senate Health committee votes to advance Trump nominee McMahon as education secretary

    Feb 20, 2025 04:42 PM EST

    ... of which were created by Congress. At the same time, McMahon promised to cut off federal money from schools that defy Trump's orders against transgender athletes in women's sports, campus antisemitism and diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives across the country.Democrats were alarmed by McMahon's response to ...

  • News Wrap: Bolsonaro charged with attempting coup after losing Brazil's election

    News Wrap: Bolsonaro charged with attempting coup after losing Brazil's election

    Feb 19, 2025 11:50 PM EST

    ... Still to come on the "News Hour": the supposed accidental firing of USDA employees fighting the bird flu outbreak raises questions about the response;a transgender Navy pilot speaks out on the Trump administration's opposition to trans people serving in the U.S. military; and Judy Woodruff examines what ...

  • 'I want to keep serving': Navy commander fights Trump's trans military ban

    'I want to keep serving': Navy commander fights Trump's trans military ban

    Feb 19, 2025 11:30 PM EST

    ... Desjardins: You are a decorated service member. You operate at a very high level, but what can you tell us about those thousands of other transgender members of the service? I could see conservatives saying, oh, Commander Shilling is an exception. Cmdr. Emily Shilling: Yes, so transgender individuals are no ...

  • A timeline of cultlike 'Zizian' group tied to killing of a Border Patrol agent in Vermont

    A timeline of cultlike 'Zizian' group tied to killing of a Border Patrol agent in Vermont

    Feb 18, 2025 06:32 PM EST

    ... It is based on Associated Press interviews and a review of police reports, court records and online postings: 2016 Jack LaSota, a computer programmer and transgender woman living in the San Francisco Bay area, starts writing a blog under the online persona “Ziz” with complex and sometimes rambling theories about ...

  • Leader of Zizians, cultlike group linked to 6 killings, ordered held without bail in Maryland

    Leader of Zizians, cultlike group linked to 6 killings, ordered held without bail in Maryland

    Feb 18, 2025 05:56 PM EST

    ... separate values and genders and "often desire to kill each other."LaSota, who used she/her pronouns, and in her writings says she is a transgender woman, railed against perceived enemies, including so-called rationalist groups, which operate mostly online and seek to understand human cognition through reason and knowledge ...