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  • 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 EDT

    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 EDT

    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 EDT

    ... 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 EDT

    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 EDT

    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 ...

  • Georgia restricted transgender care for youth in 2023. Now Republicans are seeking an outright ban

    Georgia restricted transgender care for youth in 2023. Now Republicans are seeking an outright ban

    Mar 12, 2024 06:10 PM EDT

    “What about parents’ rights to take their child to a physician and seek appropriate treatment?” Sen. Nan Orrock, an Atlanta Democrat, asked during the hearing. Research has shown that transgender youth and adults are prone to stress, depression and suicidal behavior when forced to live as the gender they ...

  • Judge blocks Texas from collecting info on transgender children receiving gender-affirming care

    Judge blocks Texas from collecting info on transgender children receiving gender-affirming care

    Mar 01, 2024 11:54 PM EDT

    AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A Texas judge on Friday temporarily blocked state Attorney General Ken Paxton from forcing an LGBTQ+ advocacy group to hand over information about transgender children receiving gender-affirming medical care. The ruling came just one day after PFLAG National went to court to try to stop Paxton ...

  • Some states seek to deny transgender and nonbinary people's rights by legally defining sex

    Some states seek to deny transgender and nonbinary people's rights by legally defining sex

    Feb 27, 2024 04:50 PM EDT

    ... interactions where people are looking at your documentation," Krueger said. The Williams Institute, a think tank at UCLA Law, estimates there are 1.3 million transgender adults in the U.S. But it's believed that intersex people represent 1.7 percent of humans, which would translate to over 5 ...

  • Funeral for transgender activist at St. Patrick’s Cathedral drew over 1,000 mourners — and church leaders' scorn

    Funeral for transgender activist at St. Patrick’s Cathedral drew over 1,000 mourners — and church leaders' scorn

    Feb 19, 2024 09:39 PM EDT

    ... be a welcoming place for all," the family said. A former sex worker who suffered addiction and was jailed at Rikers Island, Gentili became a transgender health program coordinator, a nonprofit policy director for an established gay men's health organization, GMHC, and a lobbyist for health equality and anti ...

  • Transgender rights leaders play 'a defense game' against a wave of hostile legislation

    Transgender rights leaders play 'a defense game' against a wave of hostile legislation

    Feb 09, 2024 05:29 PM EDT

    ... GOP House member to support the legalization of same-sex marriage. She was vocally in support of Rodrigo's decision to come out as a transgender man. "What makes our family so very proud of Rodrigo is that he’s so happy living an authentic life, being honest about who ...

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