Tag: transgender
SCOTUS rules on ban on gender transition care for minors
The Supreme Court ruled that Tennessee's ban did not violate "U.S. constitutional guarantee of equal protection under the law by discriminating on the basis of sex" and upholds ban against treatment for minors.
Utah passes bill banning transgender youth from receiving gender-affirming health care
The bill "prohibits surgery for all transgender youth and disallows hormone treatment for transgender minors who have not been professionally diagnosed with gender dysphoria."
Study shows link between early access to gender-affirming hormone therapy and...
The research is overwhelming, and the anecdotal evidence is also hard to ignore.
GOP state laws attacking trans kids’ rights are ‘unconstitutional’: DOJ
"These filings from the Department of Justice confirm what we have been telling legislatures all year: Banning trans youth from sports and denying trans youth health care violates the Constitution and federal law."
Biden reverses Trump’s trans military ban, but assault on rights continues...
And Biden ordered the Pentagon to review the files of troops who were forced out because of the ban and to immediately halt discharges of transgender troops now serving.
Justice for Layleen Polanco: Community demands answers after trans black Latinx...
Layleen’s death came at the beginning of Pride Month and just one day after the NYPD apologized for the first time for its raid a half-century ago on the Stonewall Inn, a gay- and trans-friendly bar in Manhattan’s Greenwich Village.
HUD to rollback protections for transgender people in taxpayer-funded homeless shelters
“The ACLU will fight back against this attempt to write discrimination into the law. Shelters funded by taxpayers should be open to all – period.”
ACLU: Trump’s anti-trans ban has no military justification, is driven by...
We speak to Chase Strangio, staff attorney at the ACLU, which is challenging the Trump administration’s ban on service members who are transgender.
Trump admin. attempts to erase existence of trans people after years...
If enacted, the proposal would reverse the expansion of transgender rights that took place under President Barack Obama.
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Bipartisan bill introduced in House to ban use of pesticide paraquat in US agriculture
The bill would "direct the Environmental Protection Agency to cancel all existing paraquat registrations, revoke any tolerances permitting paraquat residue in food, and ban the sale and use of existing stocks upon enactment."
Anti-ICE protesters sentenced to decades as Trump turns ‘antifa’ label into prosecution tool
The Prairieland case transformed a July 4 protest outside a Texas immigration jail into a terrorism prosecution, with sentences from 30 to 100 years and warnings of a new federal playbook against left-wing dissent.