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A school board in Virginia will continue to defend its transgender bathroom ban, arguing in court filings Friday that a federal appeals court should decide if it violated the rights of former student Gavin Grimm. The board's request follows a legal defeat last week in U.S. District Court in Norfolk.
A close friend and colleague of Chelsea Manning said Monday that the convicted leaker of government secrets and longshot candidate for U.S. Senate is safe after a photo on her Twitter account apparently showed the 30-year-old woman standing on the edge of an upper-story window ledge. The photo was posted to her Twitter account late Sunday with the words: "I'm sorry."
A close friend and colleague of Chelsea Manning said Monday that the convicted leaker of government secrets and longshot candidate for U.S. Senate is safe after a photo on her Twitter account apparently showed the 30-year-old woman standing on the edge of an upper-story window ledge. The photo was posted to her Twitter account late Sunday with the words: "I'm sorry."
Education Secretary Betsy DeVos apparently wasn't around to see it, but a message to her was projected on the Education Department's headquarters in Washington about policy on LGBTQ youth, asking, "How do you sleep at night?" The Human Rights Campaign, with artist Robin Bell, displayed data Wednesday night from a recently released survey revealing experiences of about 12,000 LGBTQ teens, taking aim at Trump administration policies that advocates say have targeted these young people. The survey was conducted by the Human Rights Campaign - the largest civil rights organization working in the United States to achieve equality for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer people - and University of Connecticut researchers.
A California woman live-streamed her confrontation with a transgender person using the women's restroom at a Denny's restaurant. Jamina Saavedra, who is running for a congressional seat in California's 44th District, posted the video to Facebook Tuesday in which she can be seen walking toward the restroom and filming the door of a bathroom stall.
The Trump administration is rolling back an Obama-era protection for the LGBTQ community with a reversal of guidelines designed to defend transgender inmates from being harassed, assaulted or sexually assaulted while in prison. The Bureau of Prisons posted a change notice on Friday to their Transgender Offender Manual outlining new recommendations to use biological sex as the "initial determination" for housing designation.
Chelsea Manning is no longer living as a transgender woman in a male military prison, serving the lengthiest sentence ever for revealing U.S. government secrets. She's free to grow out her hair, travel the world, and spend time with whomever she likes.
Photo of Sara Ann Makenzie, one of two transgender Wisconsin residents challenging a state regulation that prohibits low-income Medicaid beneficiaries from obtaining medically necessary treatments for gender dysphoria. Credit: Spencer Micka Photography Top surgery, a common reference for chest reconstruction surgery for transgender patients, is a widely accepted and effective surgical procedure for treating gender dysphoria.
The Trump administration is coming under fire for rewriting a federal rule that bars discrimination in health care based on "gender identity." Critics say it's another attempt to undercut acceptance for transgender people.
The Trump administration is coming under fire for rewriting a federal rule that bars discrimination in health care based on "gender identity." Critics say it's another attempt to undercut acceptance for transgender people.
Henry, a small-business owner and radio host, said he felt the urge to get involved with politics after the election of President Donald Trump, whom Henry feared would roll back protections for the LGBTQ community. His wife, a substitute school teacher, woke him at 2 a.m. after election night in tears.
What started as a local high student planning a local event to celebrate diversity has ballooned into a festival drawing national attention that could bring 1,600 people to downtown Columbus today. Erin Bailey, a senior at Columbus Signature Academy-New Tech High School, said much of what she proposed to the Columbus Board of Works Feb. 20 has remained the same.
Council member Anita Bonds is finding LGBT support in her bid for re-election. Fourteen prominent LGBT Democrats have announced their support for the re-election of D.C. Council member Anita Bonds in a race in which a lesbian is running as an independent for one of the two at-large Council seats up for grabs in November.
Attorneys for a Nebraska death row inmate whose case inspired the 1999 movie "Boys Don't Cry" say he should be ruled ineligible for execution because he has the intellect of a young child. John Lotter was sentenced to death for his role in the 1993 killings of Brandon Teena, a 21-year-old transgender man, and two witnesses, Lisa Lambert and Philip DeVine, at a rural farmhouse in Humboldt, about 75 miles south of Omaha.
After The Atlantic hired former National Review writer Kevin Williamson, Media Matters and a number of others called out Williamsons' history of problematic commentary -- including his belief that "the law should treat abortion like any other homicide" and, as Rewire.News characterized it, that "women who have had abortions should face capital punishment, namely hanging." It turns out there are plenty of other reasons that The Atlantic should feel bad about the new hire and his self-proclaimed commitment to "raising a brand new kind of hell."
Does CNSNews.com managing editor Michael W. Chapman still hate the LGBT community with a passion ? You betcha! Chapman grumbled in a Feb. 13 blog post : In a stunning example of moral sanity and common sense, the Department of Education will now reject any cases dealing with bathroom complaints by transgender students, reported BuzzFeed , and which leftist Rep. Nancy Pelosi addressed in a tweet with #ProtectTransStudents. The story noted that the Trump administration, back in February 2017, rescinded Obama-era rules that said public schools should allow transgenders to use the bathroom of their choice, e.g., a male student who imagines he is female may use the ladies room.
A local LGBT advocacy group is holding a protest this weekend in response to a new proposal from the Trump administration on transgender military members. Organized by the We Exist Coalition, the rally is in opposition of President Donald Trump's recently-announced ban on transgender individuals serving in the military.
As politics has become more tribal and geared toward demonization instead of debate, it's amazing how many important questions don't seem to be asked any more. Instead of discussing issues rationally, people are stuck in little boxes based on where they fall on an issue.
Army whistleblower and transgender activist who spent seven years in military prison after leaking a trove of documents about the Iraq and Afghan wars and the State Department to WikiLeaks in 2010. She is now running for the U.S. Senate in Maryland.
US soldiers of the 502nd Infantry regiment 2nd Batallion 3rd Platoon of the Charger Company, stand at a checkpoint around Lakokhel camp in the Zari district of Kandahar city on December 02, 2010. AFP PHOTO / MARTIN BUREAU - See this story on www.politico.com President Donald Trump on Friday issued orders to ban transgender troops who require surgery or significant medical treatment from serving in the military except in select cases - following through on a controversial pledge last year that has been under review by the Pentagon and is being fought out in the courts.