Today, the Trump administration is set to rescind Obama-era guidance to schools barring discrimination against transgender students and ensuring they have access to the restroom consistent with their gender identity, reports The Washington Blade. “This is the first day of the president’s second month in office and he is now fully coming after LGBT people,”…
WASHINGTON – Today, in response to the U.S. Department of Justice’s announcement that it will no longer challenge a nationwide hold on protections for transgender students, nearly 800 parents of transgender children sent a letter to President Donald Trump condemning the decision and calling on his administration to fully enforce federal civil rights laws. The…
SACRAMENTO, Calif. —Sen. Toni G. Atkins (D-San Diego) announced today that she has introduced SB 310, legislation that establishes the right of people incarcerated in state prisons and county jails to access the court to obtain a name or gender change. Currently, people incarcerated in state prisons seeking a court order for a name change…
SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. – Michelle-Lael Norsworthy, most notably known for setting a precedent that the state of California needs to provide gender reassignment surgery for trans inmates, is finally undergoing her surgery this Friday, Feb. 10. In April 2015, in the landmark decision of Norsworthy v. Beard, U.S. District Judge Jon Tigar ruled the state…
The Boy Scouts of America (BSA) announced today that that they will begin accepting members based on the gender listed on their application. Chief Scout Executive Michael Surbaugh made the announcement via video (above). In a press release the BSA stated, While we offer a number of programs that serve all youth, Cub Scouting and…
FORT WORTH, Texas — The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) Monday filed a motion to stay a nationwide court order preventing the federal government from enforcing an Affordable Care Act regulation that protects transgender people and women from discrimination in health care. The ACLU also asked the court to issue a formal ruling on its…
GREATER FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla.— The Greater Fort Lauderdale Convention & Visitors Bureau will launch a new global marketing and advertising campaign Jan. 9 featuring three transgender models, and will become the world’s first destination to use transgender models in mainstream destination advertising. Greater Fort Lauderdale’s campaign, which also features straight, gay and lesbian models, follows the…
Despite recent gains in visibility, more trans people were killed in 2016 than in any other year on record and a long-standing lack of trust in the police means many other crimes in the LGBT community go unreported. But a few pioneering transgender police officers, and their departments, are helping to bridge that divide. VICE News…
“Phil Berger, the powerful Republican leader of North Carolina’s Senate, couldn’t stop the debacle,” wrote Jonathan M. Katz for Politico in the article In North Carolina, Some Democrats See Their Grim Future. “A state law that effectively banned legal protections for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people – a law he’d pushed through the statehouse…
A federal judge has decided to issue an injunction blocking enforcement of federal protections that were set to go into effect Jan. 1 barring discrimination in health care services based on an individual’s gender identity, as well as reproductive health services. U.S. District Judge Reed O’Connor’s decision came in response to a lawsuit filed by…
