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Here’s how the Biden administration plans to fight trans sports bans
While advocates are hopeful Biden’s proposals will help trans kids, many say it has taken too long for the administration to take action.
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Marjorie Taylor Greene says trans people don’t face discrimination in bizarre rant
She said that trans people don’t face job discrimination, despite plenty of evidence to the contrary.
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Jeopardy! champion Amy Schneider to testify against trans youth health care ban
One advocate said the bill wants “to force trans people out of public life and restrict gender-affirming care access for all trans people, regardless of age.”
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Darling of the “detransition” movement comes out again as transgender
She tried to “do everything to make these feelings go away,” but the only thing that worked “was accepting them.”
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Transgender voters risk losing their voice in 2022 midterms
According to the latest research from UCLA’s Williams Institute, over 200,000 trans voters could be disenfranchised this November.
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Democrats introduce Transgender Bill of Rights to fight Republican anti-LGBTQ attacks
“Our transgender and non-binary siblings are hurting.”
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Over 5% of young adults identify as transgender or non-binary
Adults over 50 are much less likely to identify as trans or non-binary compared to those under 30.
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Supreme Court upholds male-only military draft by refusing men’s rights group’s suit
The ACLU called it “one of the last sex-based classifications in federal law” and it doesn’t take trans people’s identities into account. But the Supreme Court isn’t going to touch it.
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Trump guidance on “how to spot a transgender person” at homeless shelters ended
The Biden administration announced yesterday that it was ending one of Donald Trump’s cruelest anti-LGBTQ policies.
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Rodrigo Heng-Lehtinen to replace Mara Keisling at the National Center for Transgender Equality
He is a Cuban-American trans man and seasoned advocate poised to replace NCTE founder Mara Keisling.
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Here are critical resources to help transgender seniors face the challenges of growing older
Trans older adults face unique challenges, but fortunately, there are resources to help empower them to age with dignity.
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Trump administration will let homeless shelters refuse transgender people
Transgender people may be forced to sleep in the street as a result of the policy meant to “better accommodate religious beliefs of shelter providers.”
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The number of LGBTQ seniors will double in ten years. Here’s what you need to know.
LGBTQ seniors face special challenges. Fortunately, there are resources dedicated to helping them thrive as they age.
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Judge rules that it’s OK to ban women from going topless because breasts are “unpalatable”
But no one knows how the ruling would apply to transgender people who have breasts.
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Idaho GOP ignores coronavirus in favor of requiring medical tests for transgender student athletes
If the opposing team claims a student athlete is transgender, the athlete’s “internal and external reproductive anatomy” will need to be checked by a doctor.
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Facing backlash from trans community and racism accusations, Mara Keisling won’t step down from NCTE
Despite saying she doesn’t know if the trans community trusts her, the founder of the embattled transgender organization isn’t leaving: ‘I can’t even express to you how frustrating this is to me.’
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House Democrats almost overturned Trump’s trans military ban. But the GOP stopped them.
A provision was inserted in a military spending bill to overturn the trans military ban. But it was dropped due to Republican pressure.
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Trans people are suing because Illinois has banned them from changing their names on ID cards
“You just kind of walk around feeling incomplete as a person.”
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170 trans inmates are suing out Gov. Jared Polis for rape & assault in Colorado’s prisons
Often transgender women are placed in solitary confinement “for their own protection,” something which is tantamount to psychological torture.
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Union files labor dispute charges against National Center for Transgender Equality
This comes after ex-employees of the NCTE banded together to write a scathing open letter explaining the alleged institutional discrimination that caused them to leave.