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Transgender protections bill fails to pass Maryland senate committee
ANNAPOLIS, Md. — A bill that would have prohibited discrimination against transgender Marylanders in the areas of housing, employment, and public accommodations, failed on Thursday to pass a committee vote.
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Ohio judge fines club in Columbus’ first-ever transgender discrimination case
COLUMBUS, Ohio — A municipal court judge in Columbus, Ohio, has ordered owners of a private dining and business networking club to pay a $1,000 fine in the city’s first-ever transgender discrimination case.
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Iowa judge says transgender woman faced discrimination
IOWA CITY, Iowa — A state administrative law judge has ruled that a transgender woman should not have been ordered out of a courthouse women’s restroom by a sheriff’s deputy.
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School district rejects mediation in complaint filed on behalf transgender girl
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — A Colorado school district is refusing to agree to mediation with the family of a transgender girl who wants to return to school.
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Nev. Senate committee advances bill to add gender identity to hate crime statute
CARSON CITY, Nev. — A Nevada state Senate committee on Thursday advanced a bill that would add gender identity to the list of protected identities in Nevada’s hate crime statute.
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California lawmaker seeks rights for transgender students
SAN FRANCISCO — A California lawmaker has introduced legislation aimed at guaranteeing transgender students the right to use public school restrooms and participate on the sports teams that correspond with their expressed genders.
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Nevada lawmakers consider adding gender identity to hate crime statute
CARSON CITY, Nev. — Lawmakers are considering a measure to include transgender persons to the list of protected identities in Nevada’s hate crime statute.
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Appeals court to hear case on gender reassignment surgery for convicted murderer
BOSTON — A federal appeals court will hear arguments in April in an appeal of a judge’s ruling granting a taxpayer-funded sex change for a Massachusetts transgender inmate.
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Transgender woman says she was kicked out of spa because ‘she looked different’
CENTREVILLE, Va. — A California transgender woman alleges that, while on a business trip last year, she was asked to leave a suburban Washington D.C. because the manager told her “she looked different.”
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Expelled transgender student sues California Baptist University
RIVERSIDE, Calif. — A transgender woman has filed a lawsuit after she was expelled from a Christian university after she revealed in an episode of MTV’s “True Life” that she is biologically male.