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  • Transgender activists flood a Utah tip line with false reports to block a bathroom law

    Transgender activists flood a Utah tip line with false reports to block a bathroom law

    May 08, 2024 04:37 PM EST

    ... spaces, which they argue could even affect people who are not trans. Their warnings were amplified earlier this year when a Utah school board member came under fire — and later lost her reelection bid — for publicly questioning the gender of a high school basketball player she wrongly assumed was transgender.

  • Rollout of Utah transgender bathroom law sows confusion among public school families

    Rollout of Utah transgender bathroom law sows confusion among public school families

    May 01, 2024 07:54 PM EST

    ... tell people who they can be or to stop feeling how they want to feel,” said 10-year-old Lila Hathaway. Bree Taylor-Lof, a transgender teacher, left school on the verge of tears Monday after having to present to students about a policy that affected them personally. They fought ...

  • State health care plans must cover transgender-related care, federal court rules

    State health care plans must cover transgender-related care, federal court rules

    Apr 30, 2024 10:45 PM EST

    ... Idaho that the Supreme Court allowed to take effect. But then there are other cases, including one from the Fourth Circuit that was related to transgender students participating in sports, that the Supreme Court declined to take. And that was a win for the transgender plaintiff in that case. Court ...

  • West Virginia and North Carolina's transgender care coverage policies discriminate, judges rule

    West Virginia and North Carolina's transgender care coverage policies discriminate, judges rule

    Apr 30, 2024 12:37 AM EST

    ... attorneys for the state of North Carolina said the state-sponsored plan is not required to cover gender-affirming hormone therapy or surgery because being transgender is not an illness. They claimed only a subset of transgender people suffer from gender dysphoria, a diagnosis of distress over gender identity that ...

  • California court to weigh in on fight over transgender ballot measure proposal language

    California court to weigh in on fight over transgender ballot measure proposal language

    Apr 19, 2024 06:57 PM EST

    ... suing Attorney General Rob Bonta, a Democrat, in Sacramento Superior Court. They want the measure's title to be changed from the “Restrict Rights of Transgender Youth” initiative to the “Protect Kids of California Act” and update what they say is a biased summary of the proposal. “It’s an ...

  • Biden’s new Title IX rules protect LGBTQ students and sexual assault victims. Transgender athletes aren't mentioned

    Biden’s new Title IX rules protect LGBTQ students and sexual assault victims. Transgender athletes aren't mentioned

    Apr 19, 2024 02:58 PM EST

    The administration originally planned to include a new policy forbidding schools from enacting outright bans on transgender athletes, but that provision was put on hold. Instead, Biden is officially undoing sexual assault rules put in place by his predecessor and current election-year opponent.

  • Supreme Court allows Idaho to enforce its ban on gender-affirming care for transgender children

    Supreme Court allows Idaho to enforce its ban on gender-affirming care for transgender children

    Apr 15, 2024 09:31 PM EST

    WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court is allowing Idaho to enforce its ban on gender-affirming care for transgender youth while lawsuits over the law proceed, reversing lower courts. The justices' order Monday allows the state to put in a place a 2023 law that subjects physicians to up to 10 ...

  • German parliament approves measure making it easier for transgender people to change legal name and gender

    German parliament approves measure making it easier for transgender people to change legal name and gender

    Apr 12, 2024 05:09 PM EST

    ... The new legislation provides for operators of, for example, gyms and changing rooms for women to continue to decide who has access. Nyke Slawik, a transgender woman elected to parliament in 2021 for the Greens, one of the governing parties, recounted her experience of going through the current system a ...

  • New NAIA policy prevents transgender women from competing in women's college sports

    New NAIA policy prevents transgender women from competing in women's college sports

    Apr 08, 2024 06:14 PM EST

    The National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics, the governing body for mostly small colleges, announced a policy Monday that essentially bans transgender athletes from women's sports. The NAIA’s Council of Presidents approved the policy in a 20-0 vote Monday, according to CBS Sports. The NAIA, which oversees some ...

  • Conservatives clash with White House over Biden's recognition of Transgender Day of Visibility

    Conservatives clash with White House over Biden's recognition of Transgender Day of Visibility

    Mar 31, 2024 05:43 PM EST

    WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is facing criticism from Donald Trump's campaign and religious conservatives for proclaiming March 31 — which corresponds with Easter Sunday this year — as “Transgender Day of Visibility.” The Democratic president issued the proclamation on Friday, calling on “all Americans to join us in lifting up ...

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