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  • 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 EST

    ... 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 EST

    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 EST

    ... 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 EST

    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 EST

    “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 ...

  • Justice Department demanded details on transgender patients from at least 1 hospital

    Justice Department demanded details on transgender patients from at least 1 hospital

    Aug 21, 2025 06:06 PM EST

    ... that seeks to end federal funding of the care for patients under 19. He's also sought to bar transgender military service members and keep transgender athletes out of certain sports competitions. And the administration released a document that questions the standards of treatment for transgender youth and suggests relying ...

  • Ranger fired for hanging transgender flag in Yosemite and park visitors may face prosecution

    Ranger fired for hanging transgender flag in Yosemite and park visitors may face prosecution

    Aug 20, 2025 04:53 PM EST

    Park officials said Tuesday they are investigating alleged violations of protest restrictions that have been tightened under President Donald Trump. Shannon "SJ" Joslin, a ranger and biologist who studies bats, said they hung the transgender pride flag on the famous climbing wall that looms over the park's main thoroughfare for about two hours on May...

  • Air Force announces new policy to deny transgender troops hearings before discharges

    Air Force announces new policy to deny transgender troops hearings before discharges

    Aug 16, 2025 12:06 AM EST

    ... the minimum standard of law that we will afford our service members.” Transgender troops warn the policy could have wider implications Col. Bree Fram, a transgender officer in the Space Force who has long been seen as a leader among transgender troops, argued that the policy is a threat to ...

  • U.S. Air Force to deny retirement pay for transgender troops being separated from service

    U.S. Air Force to deny retirement pay for transgender troops being separated from service

    Aug 07, 2025 09:35 PM EST

    ... the condition and its diagnosis as the main way to identify troops who are trans. However, the two are not an exact match — not every transgender person has the condition. As a result, there is an understanding that the actual number of transgender people within the military’s roughly 2 ...

  • Transgender military members fight to continue serving despite Trump’s ban

    Transgender military members fight to continue serving despite Trump’s ban

    Jul 19, 2025 09:35 PM EST

    ... they've been able to help me with so many different things, and never once have I received any issues at all with me being transgender. Dan Ming: People think of military culture as pretty conservative, and I think people watching this might be surprised that you guys haven't ...

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