COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Ohio lawmakers advanced a ban on transgender students using bathrooms that fit their gender identity in a late-night state House vote Wednesday just before they left Columbus for the summer. The Republican-backed bill was sent back to the Senate with the amended provision, which pertains to public K-12 schools and institutions […]
The Ohio House on Wednesday voted to ban transgender students from using school bathrooms that align with their gender identity. The surprise, late-night vote concluded a marathon legislative session before lawmakers break for the summer − and potentially until after the November election. House Republicans tacked the measure onto a separate bill dealing with the […]
MINEOLA, N.Y. (AP) — A county legislature outside New York City has voted to bar transgender female athletes from playing on girls’ and women’s teams at county-owned facilities after a bid to restrict trans athletes by executive order was thrown out in court. The Republican-controlled Nassau County Legislature voted 12-5 on Monday to bar trans […]
By Andrew Chung WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court agreed on Monday to decide the legality of a Republican-backed ban in Tennessee on gender-affirming medical care for transgender minors, as the justices waded into another contentious issue implicating LGBT rights. They took up an appeal by Democratic President Joe Biden’s administration of a lower […]
BARNEGAT — The Barnegat Board of Education eliminated a policy on transgender and gender nonconforming students this month, following a growing movement among school boards across New Jersey that are scrutinizing their policies on LGBTQ+ youth. At issue is what is known as Policy 5756, which guides school staff on interacting with transgender youth and […]
SALT LAKE CITY (ABC4) — Utah Gov. Spencer Cox signed a resolution on Friday, June 21, officially setting Utah to ignore upcoming changes to Title IX meant to add protections for transgender children. Title IX was originally passed in 1972 and provides protections against sex-based discrimination in federally funded educational programs. The U.S. Department of […]
Transgender rights advocates protest at the Utah State Capitol on June 19, 2024, ahead of a House vote to not comply with a new Title XI rules that offer protection against discrimination based on students’ gender identity. (Alixel Cabrera/Utah News Dispatch) During a special legislative session on Juneteenth, Utah lawmakers declared they will not comply […]
By Brendan Pierson (Reuters) – A U.S. appeals court on Tuesday revived a lawsuit challenging an Oklahoma law prohibiting transgender people from changing their birth certificates to match their gender identity. The three-judge panel of the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that a lower court wrongly dismissed the case, finding that the law […]
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — A Florida public school employee who faces firing because she allowed her transgender daughter to play girls high school volleyball assailed those who outed her child, saying Tuesday that the ensuing investigation destroyed the girl’s life. Jessica Norton said her daughter was thriving at Monarch High School in suburban Fort […]
HOUSTON (AP) — A Texas doctor who calls himself a whistleblower on transgender care for minors is accused of illegally obtaining private information on patients from the nation’s largest pediatric hospital who were not under his care. Federal prosecutors said Dr. Eithan Haim, a 34-year-old surgeon, snatched the information and shared it with a conservative […]
Lynn Conway, a pioneer in the design of microchips that are at the heart of consumer electronics who overcame discrimination as a transgender person, has died at age 86. Her June 9 death was announced by the University of Michigan, where Conway was on the engineering faculty until she retired in 1998. “She overcame so […]
Lynn Conway, a pioneer in the design of microchips who overcame transgender discrimination, has died at age 86. Her death on June 9 was announced by the University of Michigan, where Ms Conway was on the engineering faculty until she retired in 1998. “She overcame so much, but she didn’t spend her life being angry […]