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  • A transgender teen’s case in Ecuador opens path for others seeking legal recognition

    A transgender teen’s case in Ecuador opens path for others seeking legal recognition

    Apr 17, 2026 05:38 PM EDT

    ... for families of trans children like their own. “That became the only way we could fight the state,” Bonilla said. “We were 25 families with transgender children of different ages, the oldest being 12.” Her family moved to Canada during the COVID-19 pandemic. And while she treasures how welcoming ...

  • Trump administration stops enforcing protections for transgender students in several schools

    Trump administration stops enforcing protections for transgender students in several schools

    Apr 06, 2026 09:01 PM EDT

    ... schools that have made efforts to accommodate students based on their gender identity. It has filed lawsuits in California and Minnesota over state policies permitting transgender students to participate in interscholastic sports, and opened civil rights investigations into schools and universities over their policies on transgender students. But the announcement ...

  • Idaho bill aims to criminalize transgender bathroom use in private businesses

    Idaho bill aims to criminalize transgender bathroom use in private businesses

    Mar 27, 2026 12:32 AM EDT

    ... malign the transgender community. Rather it upholds a universal standard of privacy.” Bathrooms are not the only place where lawmakers have been placing restrictions on transgender people in the name of protecting women and girls. At least 25 states bar transgender women and girls from some women's and girl ...

  • Supreme Court blocks California law against schools outing transgender students to parents

    Supreme Court blocks California law against schools outing transgender students to parents

    Mar 03, 2026 12:57 AM EDT

    ... after the court upheld state bans on gender-identity-related healthcare for minors. The justices also seem to be leaning toward allowing states to ban transgender athletes from playing on girls sports teams. School policies for transgender students, meanwhile, have also been on the court’s radar in other cases ...

  • Transgender youths are targeted in Scouting America changes pushed by the Pentagon

    Transgender youths are targeted in Scouting America changes pushed by the Pentagon

    Feb 27, 2026 05:58 PM EDT

    ... adult leaders while allowing church-sponsored Scout units to maintain the exclusion for religious reasons. In 2017, the Boy Scouts announced that they would allow transgender children who identify as boys to enroll in their boys-only programs. The Boy Scouts also faced a flood of sexual abuse claims and ...

  • LISTEN: Supreme Court seems likely to uphold states' bans on transgender students playing school sports

    LISTEN: Supreme Court seems likely to uphold states' bans on transgender students playing school sports

    Jan 12, 2026 08:38 PM EDT

    ... on women's teams.WATCH: Trump administration seeks to cut off access to transgender health care for U.S. children Despite the small numbers of transgender athletes, the issue has taken on outsize importance. The NCAA and the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committees banned transgender women from women’s ...

  • Transgender NSA employee sues Trump administration over executive order on 'immutable' genders

    Transgender NSA employee sues Trump administration over executive order on 'immutable' genders

    Dec 23, 2025 05:39 PM EDT

    A transgender employee of the National Security Agency is suing the Trump administration and trying to block enforcement of a presidential executive order and other policies the employee says violate federal civil rights law. Sarah O'Neill, an NSA data scientist who is transgender, disputes the legality of President Donald ...

  • WATCH: Trump administration seeks to cut off access to transgender health care for U.S. children

    WATCH: Trump administration seeks to cut off access to transgender health care for U.S. children

    Dec 18, 2025 05:30 PM EDT

    ... use to withhold necessary funding from entire groups of people,” said Dr. Scott Leibowitz, a psychiatrist and board member for the World Professional Association for Transgender Health. The group develops standards of care for transgender patients globally. Kennedy also announced Thursday that the HHS Office of Civil Rights will propose ...

  • Supreme Court lets Trump block transgender Americans from choosing passport sex markers

    Supreme Court lets Trump block transgender Americans from choosing passport sex markers

    Nov 06, 2025 09:17 PM EDT

    WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Thursday allowed President Donald Trump’s administration to enforce a policy blocking transgender and nonbinary people from choosing passport sex markers that align with their gender identity. The decision by the conservative-majority court is Trump’s latest win on the high court’s ...

  • New Pentagon policy undercuts transgender troops' ability to fight military ban, AP reports

    New Pentagon policy undercuts transgender troops' ability to fight military ban, AP reports

    Nov 01, 2025 06:42 PM EDT

    “It would be a betrayal of what the military has seen me as,” he said, adding that “it would be like a costume-like effect.” Ireland, like almost all other transgender troops, is on administrative leave, and he is sporting a long beard. “Can I put on a skirt ...

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