#transgender-rights

#transgender-rights

Eight nurses are challenging a policy which allows the single-sex room at Darlington Memorial Hospital to be used by Rose Henderson, a biological male who identifies as a woman.

A cisgender woman in Arizona is speaking out after she says she was harassed by cops in the women's restroom of a Tucson Walmart late last month. Kalaya Morton, 19, of Phoenix, says she and her ex-girlfriend were using adjacent stalls in the store's women's restroom when two male sheriff's deputies entered. 'They were flashing lights on our feet and saying, 'You have to get out of here. You have to come out. We need to talk to you,'' Morton told .

The Trump administration's "Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education" continues to make headlines. Nine selective institutions were originally asked to agree to reduce transgender and foreign students' rights and make other changes in exchange for federal funding priority and other unspecified benefits. All of these universities either rejected the compact or gave noncommittal responses, while a few relatively unknown, non-research-intensive institutions have publicly expressed interest in signing.

"I have spoken with Lia's family to express my heartbreak," Baucom said. "As president, and far more as a fellow parent, I ache for them. This is a profound loss that nobody should have to endure."

California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) is now saying that his state should consider rolling back its law allowing trans students to participate in school sports as their gender, while he argues that he isn't transphobic because he has signed many pro-trans rights bills and also has a trans godson. "I disagree with all the vitriol, but I agree on the issue of fairness in that respect, that it is unfair in these circumstances, and I haven't been able to reconcile it," he told KQED this past Friday about the issue of trans student-athletes.

A federal judge in Oregon has blocked President Donald Trump's administration from pulling sexual education funding over curricula mentioning diverse gender identities. U.S. District Judge Ann Aiken issued the preliminary injunction Monday as part of a lawsuit filed against the Health and Human Services Department by 16 states and the District of Columbia, which argued that pulling such money violated the separation of powers and federal law.

The Biden administration's interpretation of sex-based discrimination protections to include sexual orientation and gender identity in the list of protected characteristics in certain health programs and activities under the Affordable Healthcare Act (Obamacare) caused outcry on the right when implemented in 2024, causing them to sue so that health care providers wouldn't be obligated to treat LGBTQ+ people equally. In his ruling, the judge explicitly states that discrimination against people based on their gender identity is now legal.

A trans powerlifter in Minnesota scored a victory on Wednesday in her years-long battle with USA Powerlifting over her participation in the sports federation's competitions. The Minnesota Supreme Court ruled that barring trans powerlifter JayCee Cooper from women's competitions was discriminatory on its face and in violation of Minnesota's Human Rights Act. The justices sent part of the case back to a lower court to determine if USA Powerlifting had a legitimate business interest in discriminating against Cooper, a carve-out in the state's anti-discrimination laws.

Jackson will voice the role of Professor Trelawney, Martin will play journalist Rita Skeeter, and Nighy, who played Rufus Scrimgeour in the Harry Potter movies, will voice Professor Slughorn in the Audible series. Other stars announced yesterday (22 October) include David Holmes - who was a stunt double in the films - playing Stan Shunpike, Slow Horses star Ṣọpẹ́ Dìrísù as Sirius Black, The Office star Mackenzie Crook as Kreacher, comedian Stephen Mangan as Nearly Headless Nick, and EastEnders actress Tracy-Ann Oberman as Madam Hooch.

In these times of intensified fascism - marked by racist anti-trans violence and further abandonment by liberal politicians - it's harder to know where to find anything other than despair without her here. A freedom fighter and glamour gurl until the end, Major is probably most famous for being a survivor of the 1969 anti-police uprising at New York's Stonewall Inn. However, for those fortunate enough to inhabit her orbit, she's a mother and mentor who held on to us when others threw us out.

Many districts have refused to comply with the administration's directives, issued under an executive order that labeled transgender people "false," prompting the withholding of tens of millions of dollars in federal education funds. Now, in a major development, a federal judge in Oregon has informed all parties in a lawsuit brought by 16 states that she intends to issue a preliminary injunction blocking the restrictions-marking a significant victory for transgender students and a sharp rebuke to those who see capitulation as the only path forward.

"We are nurses who love our jobs and our patients and only want to be afforded the dignity of getting dressed and undressed for work without a man present,"

The new US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) policy has been issued to comply with president Donald Trump's "Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government" executive order, which directed airlines to disregard the "X" marker and ask for either "M" or "F" instead. The "X" non-binary marker was introduced in 2022, during Joe Biden's presidency, but has since been suspended for anyone applying for a new passport.

Trans people are the canary in the coal mine, but the air is getting thin for everyone,

"I think in particular now more than ever, we need to be showing support for those the Trump administration has been targeting," Romman told The Advocate on Saturday. "Especially if you're an elected official, this is the time to show up. Sometimes showing up really is the only thing we can do, but if that's the only thing, we should be doing it."

To put it simply, the Court has struggled with the correct outcome in this matter,

On Monday, California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) signed and vetoed the last of a slew of bills passed by the state legislature this year. Out of nearly a thousand measures awaiting his signature, Newsom signed 794 into law and vetoed 123. About the same ratio applied to bills designed to shore up state protections for transgender rights and the LGBTQ+ community, as the Trump administration's crusade against LGBTQ+ identity presses on.

She told bosses that she felt singled out, was subjected to name calling, touching and physical assault. The bullying included colleagues "burping" at her and moving her van mirrors in a bid to get her into trouble. She also highlighted that they would stare at her and try to mimic her voice. Cole said at times the harassment led to her feeling "concerned" for her life and "really depressed", and described the Royal Mail investigation as "a shambles".

"The lower courts have made abundantly clear how discriminatory and baseless the State Department's new policy is and the harm it poses for hundreds of thousands of people like our clients," said Li Nowlin-Sohl, Staff Attorney for the ACLU's LGBTQ & HIV Project. "People across the country depend on identity documents that accurately reflect their identity-who they are in their workplaces, their schools, and their communities. The administration's attempts to deny that right to transgender, nonbinary, and intersex people has no basis in law or policy, and we'll continue to fight this policy until it is permanently de

The consultation by the City of London Corporation (CLC) is now presenting six options for gender inclusivity in the historic institution, one of which would ban trans people from using their preferred ponds. It comes amid a battle between groups who swim in the natural pools, with a protest in 2018 in the men's pond by women wearing fake moustaches and beards to draw attention to the organisation's refusal to ban trans women from the ladies' pond.