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  • Transgender Americans share concerns about Trump's threats to rollback rights

    Transgender Americans share concerns about Trump's threats to rollback rights

    Nov 20, 2024 11:30 PM EDT

    ... of Congress, Sarah McBride of Delaware, targeted by representative Nancy Mace, who introduced a bill basically to ban Sarah McBride, or, I should say, any transgender woman from using women's bathrooms on Capitol Hill. When you talk to people, are they watching what's unfolding on Capitol Hill here ...

  • What's at stake politically on this Transgender Day of Remembrance

    What's at stake politically on this Transgender Day of Remembrance

    Nov 20, 2024 03:21 PM EDT

    How many transgender people have lost their lives to violence? At least 36 transgender people have died from violence in the 12 months since the last Day of Remembrance, the Human Rights Campaign said in its annual report. Since 2013, the organization has recorded the deaths from violence of 372 ...

  • Democrats were hammered with misleading attacks on transgender issues. The party is grappling with how to move forward

    Democrats were hammered with misleading attacks on transgender issues. The party is grappling with how to move forward

    Nov 14, 2024 08:55 PM EDT

    ... Trump and Republicans were relentless in trying to capitalize on the issue. They piled on transgender athletes, with Trump falsely labeling two Olympic boxers as transgender women. They used Harris' comments as a presidential candidate in 2019 — before she became vice president — effectively to blame her for laws granting transgender ...

  • Sarah McBride reflects on becoming first openly transgender person elected to Congress

    Sarah McBride reflects on becoming first openly transgender person elected to Congress

    Nov 12, 2024 11:40 PM EDT

    The 119th Congress will have several members whose elections made history. One of them is Representative-elect Sarah McBride, a state senator who won Delaware’s at-large seat in the House. She will become the first openly transgender member of the United States Congress. McBride joined Amna Nawaz to discuss more.

  • Democrat Sarah McBride to become first openly transgender member in Congress after winning Delaware race

    Democrat Sarah McBride to become first openly transgender member in Congress after winning Delaware race

    Nov 06, 2024 02:59 AM EDT

    Democrat Sarah McBride won election to a U.S. House seat representing Delaware on Tuesday. With her victory over Republican John Whalen III, McBride is poised to become the first openly transgender person to serve in Congress. She was elected to the Delaware state Senate in 2020. McBride has built ...

  • Why anti-transgender political ads are dominating the airwaves this election

    Why anti-transgender political ads are dominating the airwaves this election

    Nov 02, 2024 09:35 PM EDT

    ... that might be part of why this messaging campaign might be falling short. Laura Baron-Lopez: These ads make pretty specific claims about surgery for transgender inmates and undocumented immigrants. Let's take a listen. Man: Under liberal border czar Kamala Harris, illegal aliens are pouring into our country, including ...

  • Trump and Vance make anti-transgender attacks central to their closing argument before Election Day

    Trump and Vance make anti-transgender attacks central to their closing argument before Election Day

    Nov 01, 2024 06:27 PM EDT

    ... nomination. Clips show Harris affirming her support for federal policies that allow federal prisoners access to medical care including gender-affirming hormone treatments and, potentially, transgender surgery. "It sounds insane because it is insane," the announcer states in an ad that, as of Thursday, had aired almost 28,000 times ...

  • Brazil's trailblazing transgender candidates face violence and death threats as they campaign

    Brazil's trailblazing transgender candidates face violence and death threats as they campaign

    Oct 05, 2024 04:59 PM EDT

    ... because we’re making history, but it’s sad because our candidacy highlights the entire history of exclusion, violence and alienation of the transvestite and transgender community from electoral processes in Brazil and Latin America,” she said in a video call. Positive changes accompany the violence and fearIndianarae Siqueira, a ...

  • An Italian sprinter will be the first transgender woman to compete at the Paralympics

    An Italian sprinter will be the first transgender woman to compete at the Paralympics

    Aug 24, 2024 06:50 PM EDT

    ... than a woman.” Petrillo referred to a study funded by the IOC — and published in April in the British Journal of Sports Medicine — showing that transgender women were actually at a physical disadvantage compared to cisgender women across several areas, including lung function and lower body strength. “This means rather ...

  • Protections for transgender students have muted impact as rules face opposition in Republican-led states

    Protections for transgender students have muted impact as rules face opposition in Republican-led states

    Jul 31, 2024 06:59 PM EDT

    ... for either scenario. Jay Warona, the deputy executive director and general counsel for the New York State School Boards Association, said his state already offers transgender students some similar protections, but not all of the other components of the new regulation are addressed in state policy. Warona said he's ...

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