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  • 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 ...

  • News Wrap: Supreme Court will hear transgender athlete cases in its next term

    News Wrap: Supreme Court will hear transgender athlete cases in its next term

    Jul 03, 2025 10:45 PM EST

    In our news wrap Thursday, the Supreme Court will hear two cases next term on whether states may exclude transgender athletes from women's and girls' sports, Kilmar Abrego Garcia says he endured "severe beatings" and torture while being held at a notorious prison in El Salvador and the Chicago suburb where Pope Leo grew up...

  • Supreme Court will take up new case about transgender students joining school sports teams

    Supreme Court will take up new case about transgender students joining school sports teams

    Jul 03, 2025 03:50 PM EST

    WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court agreed Thursday to hear a case over state restrictions on which school sports teams transgender students can join. Just two weeks after upholding a ban on gender-affirming care for transgender youth, the justices said they will review lower court rulings in favor of transgender ...

  • UPenn updates swimming records after settlement with feds on transgender athletes case

    UPenn updates swimming records after settlement with feds on transgender athletes case

    Jul 02, 2025 06:48 PM EST

    ... Riley Gaines thanked President Donald Trump on social media and wrote of the settlement, “ Are pigs flying?" Gaines has said she started her activism against transgender athletes competing in women's sports after sharing a locker room with Thomas at the 2022 NCAA championships. The Education Department opened its investigation ...

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