#transgender-rights

#transgender-rights

Professionally, the impact was absolute. For decades, I managed complex IT projects for global giants and, most recently, for Sanford Health. I am a builder of systems. But this year, I watched the federal government systematically dismantle the data structures that acknowledge LGBTQ+ people exist. When the administration stopped collecting Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity (SOGI) data, it wasn't just a policy change; it was an erasure.

"But you got to win the midterms, because if we don't win the midterms, it's just going to be - I mean, they'll find a reason to impeach me," he said. "I'll get impeached." "We don't impeach them. You know why? Because they're meaner than we are. We should have impeached Joe Biden for 100 different things. They are mean and smart. But fortunately for you, they have horrible policy," he continued.

"During a Board meeting prior to the December break, there was a discussion regarding Policy AC (Nondiscrimination/Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action)," Superintendent Audra Beauvais said in a statement.

The Global Government Affairs department at X has posted that the company is offering legal support in the case of a far-right Republican activist in Texas who posted just such a photo on X in 2023. Michelle Evans, who is now head of the Williamson County Republican Party, is being investigation and facing criminal charges for posting the photo. She in turn has sued the Travis County district attorney for violating her free speech rights.

In a year marked by escalating attacks on transgender people, the Trump administration has seemed to outdo its own cruelty at every turn. While the administration has led a series of attempts to curtail trans people's rights, recognition, and safety, neither Congress nor the Supreme Court seem willing to provide a meaningful check on the administration's brazen targeting of trans people and other demonized communities.

And we just clean out that whole thing I don't know, something has to happen, but it's literally a demolition site right now. Almost everything's demolished, and people are dying there, so I'd rather get involved with some of the Arab nations and build housing in a different location where I think they could maybe live in peace for a change.

Soon after Ireland passed its Gender Recognition Act in 2015, Kevin Humphreys, a Labour politician, visited a residential home for senior citizens where an older woman thanked him for the new law. It was Humphreys who, as the minister of state for social protection 10 years ago, guided through the legislation that has meant transgender people in Ireland can apply to have their lived gender legally recognised by the state through a simple self-certification process.

Among the ideologies flagged are "adherence to radical gender ideology," along with positions favoring mass migration, anti-capitalism, anti-Christianity, and hostility toward "traditional views on family, religion, and morality," the memo states. While the directive does not explicitly name transgender people, advocates say the language effectively targets trans communities and those who support them, given the administration's repeated use of "gender ideology" as a catchall for transgender identity, health care, education, and civil rights advocacy.

I basically only got out of bed when I was hungry. Then I'd grab a bag of chips, lie back down, and Netflix all day,

My friend got away but the man chased me down the street punching me on the forehead and kicking me in the back. The reason? A "man [my friend] was wearing a skirt". More than seven years on, I bear no physical scars from the attack but that moment when I locked eyes with that stranger is etched indelibly in my memory. This person had never seen me in his life but still he hated me.

"deliberate indifference"

In a presidency defined by perpetual attention - meetings bleeding into photo ops, policy announcements collapsing into monologue - few refrains have proved as durable for President Donald Trump as the line "transgender for everybody." It arrives in his remarks like a reflex, surfacing in moments where it has no organic relevance, signaling not policy precision but the durability of a grievance.

the health board was found to have harassed her by: failing to revoke the grant of permission to Dr Upton on an interim basis after Peggie complained, taking an unreasonable length of time to investigate the allegations raised against Peggie, making reference to patient care allegations against her on 28 March 2024 and giving her an instruction not to discuss the case - until a further message confirmed that only applied to the investigation.

Last April, the supreme court issued a ruling confirming that the word sex in the Equality Act 2010 refers to biological sex, not a person's legal gender. This has a wide-reaching impact on how equality law is applied in practice, particularly in providing sex-based rights such as single-sex spaces. Six months later, a draft code on the ruling's implementation was sent by the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) to the equalities minister, Bridget Phillipson.

The Peggie ruling concluded that the supreme court judgment did not make it inherently unlawful for a trans female, who is biologically male under the Equalities Act, to be given permission to use a female changing room at work. And a week earlier, another employment tribunal reached a similar conclusion, ruling in favour of the trans-inclusive toilets policy at aerospace firm Leonardo UK's office in Edinburgh.

"Comments and conduct that violate students' privacy rights or create a hostile school environment harm children, sow discord in communities, and expose school districts to costly litigation," the letter stated. "Purely ideological statements [made during board meeting public comment periods] opposing students' rights under New York law are an unproductive diversion from boards' important work... [and can] harm children who unwillingly find themselves" scrutinized, harassed, or stigmatized by school community members, the letter added.

Using the chosen names and pronouns of LGBTQ+ youth isn't just respectful - it's life-saving. Transgender and nonbinary youth (ages 13 to 24) whose pronouns are respected were 31 percent less likely to attempt suicide in the past year than those whose pronouns are not respected, according to a new report from The Trevor Project. Nearly one-fourth (23 percent) of those who said none of the people they know use their correct name and pronouns also said they have attempted suicide in the past year,

The latest legal maneuver in a months-long dispute invoking competing definitions of Title IX, the federal civil rights law prohibiting sex-based discrimination, saw the Department of Justice file suit against Virginia's Loudoun County School Board, accusing the school district of discriminating against two Christian students who were suspended after objecting to a transgender student using a boys' locker room. "Loudoun County's decision to advance and promote gender ideology tramples on the rights of religious students who cannot embrace ideas that deny biological reality," Assistant

🏒 The gay hockey romance Heated Rivalry has been a massive hit, and the show has fans taking a closer look at the NHL -- the only major North American men's sports league with no current or former out gay players. Mey Rude explores whether that might change soon. Speaking of professional sports, the World Cup is coming to the U.S. this summer, and this week we learned that the Seattle-based game designated locally as the "Pride Match" will feature two countries where being gay is illegal.

On Tuesday, Kansas also passed a separate bill, , which ties together a number of restrictions on how trans people of all ages can move through public spaces, including a ban on transgender people using public restrooms and locker rooms and a prohibition on changing one's name and gender markers on driver's licenses. The bill, which Republicans call the "Women's Bill of Rights," defines sex in binary terms as "either male or female, at birth,"

'There were summers that I would wear two shirts just to feel comfortable enough to go outside, even if it was 100 degrees,' one man said, adding, 'When you have this condition, you're willing to go through anything and everything to overcome it.'