In their lawsuit, the National Center for Lesbian Rights (NCLR) and GLBTQ Legal Advocates & Defenders (GLAD) allege the White House has turned Trump’s tweets into “official guidance … to be communicated to the Department of Defense.” They argue that this guidance infringes upon the equal protection and due process rights of trans troops. According to their complaint, the “categorical exclusion …
Rachel Dovel didn’t mean to become a crusader for transgender rights. But the library employee found herself cast in that role last year when the library’s health insurance refused to pay for her gender confirmation surgery – and the library’s board wouldn’t budge. She underwent surgery in December – and Monday she and her legal team announced she settled a lawsuit against the Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County. …
The Justice Department on Friday said it was dropping a federal lawsuit filed last year against North Carolina over the state’s “bathroom bill,” which restricted the public bathrooms transgender people were allowed to use. Officials said that they were abandoning the lawsuit because North Carolina lawmakers last month enacted a law repealing the bathroom bill and replacing it with …
The 11 states suing to stop the Obama administration’s directive expanding transgender student rights agreed to drop their lawsuit against the move following the Trump administration’s move to rescind the order. The states, led by Texas, sued in May, arguing that the Obama administration had overstepped its authority when it directed the nation’s public schools to allow transgender students to …
A federal judge has ruled in favor of permitting three transgender students, including Jackie Evancho’s sister Juliet, to use the school restroom that aligns with their gender identity. Trump administration has clearly signaled it doesn’t care about trans students’ safety – but it can’t rescind a federal statute Jackie Evancho sang the National Anthem at Donald Trump’s inauguration; Juliet …
Lawyers for a transgender teenager say they will keep pushing his legal dispute with a Virginia school board to the Supreme Court. The American Civil Liberties Union’s (ACLU) announcement comes one day after the Trump administration rolled back protections for transgender students, potentially impacting 17-year-old Gavin Grimm’s upcoming case. “If anything, the confusion caused by this recent …
Just days before a state competition, a transgender Euless Trinity High School wrestler has been put into the middle of a lawsuit …
Trump Administration May Change Stance On Transgender Bathrooms For Students The topic of transgender bathroom rights has been a hotly contested issue between states and the federal government since North Carolina passed a law last March that would require individuals only to use the bathrooms that matched their sex as assigned at birth. Though the Justice Department sued the state, there …
On Sunday night in front of the millions of viewers watching the 2017 Grammy Awards, actress Lavern Cox stood on stage and gave a shout out to a Virginia high school student. “Everyone, please Google ‘Gavin Grimm,'” Cox said. “He’s going to the Supreme Court in March.
A federal magistrate recommended Tuesday that a district judge deny a group of parents’ request for an injunction to bar a suburban Chicago transgender high school student from the school’s restrooms and locker rooms. It now goes to U.S. District Judge Jorge Alonso, who is presiding over a lawsuit filed by the conservative group Students and Parents for Privacy on behalf of parents whose …