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Exclusive: Trans students and their parents ask Education Department leaders to help them fight anti-LGBTQ+ bills
Families of trans youth spoke with top officials at the Education Department about their hopes and fears as anti-LGBTQ+ state legislation ramps up.
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Exclusive: Democrats reintroduce federal Trans Bill of Rights as GOP tries to advance restrictions
The legislation declares that the federal government has a duty to protect trans and nonbinary people as they experience discrimination in their day-to-day lives.
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Montana bill aimed at strictly defining sex would exclude transgender people
The effort is part of a growing trend across the country to narrowly define sex, leaving out transgender and non-conforming people from as many areas of the law as possible.
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Nashville shooting suspect’s gender sets attack apart from most mass shootings
Several conservative and far-right media figures are using the shooter’s reported transgender identity to shift the conversation away from gun control.
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19 Minutes with The 19th: Trans Day of Visibility
The 19th’s LGBTQ+ reporter Orion Rummler was joined by Oklahoma state Rep. Mauree Turner and TransLash Media founder Imara Jones for an Instagram Live conversation ahead of Trans Day of Visibility.
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Intersex surgery is condemned by the United Nations. Anti-trans bills are allowing it.
Exemptions for intersex surgery allow doctors to assign minors who are born with secondary sex characteristics as “male” or “female,” reinforcing rigid gender ideals and heterosexuality, experts say.
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Nebraska filibuster over trans rights echoes Wendy Davis’ 2013 abortion standoff
State Sen. Machaela Cavanaugh’s legislative blockade reflects how advocates for and against trans rights often rely on the playbook used in fights over abortion access.
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This Georgia county spent $1 million to avoid paying for one employee’s gender-affirming care
Officials in Houston County, Georgia, said gender-affirming surgery for sheriff’s deputy Anna Lange was too costly. They spent more than $1 million on private lawyers in a fight to keep transition-related care from being covered by their health plan.
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Mike Pence is ‘out of touch’ with the reality of parental leave, advocates say
'We all have an obligation to hold people accountable for when they say something wrong, especially when it's misogynistic, especially when it's homophobic,' Chasten Buttigieg said Thursday on ‘The View.’
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Trans youth in Florida can no longer start gender-affirming care, pushing families toward difficult decisions
A Florida board of medicine rule is now in effect, barring gender-affirming care for minors who have not yet begun treatment. A legal challenge in federal court is expected.