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December 21, 2011
A federal appeals court upheld an Alabama policy requiring transgender individuals to undergo gender confirmation surgery in order to change the gender marker on their driver's licenses.
In 2018, three transgender residents of Alabama sued to challenge the state's Policy Order 63, arguing that the surgical requirement violates their constitutional rights by forcing them to undergo a costly, invasive, and -- depending on their unique form of gender dysphoria -- potentially unnecessary medical procedure just to have their identities recognized as valid by the state. Currently, eight other states have similar requirements in place.
A Pennsylvania school board has come under fire for cutting windows into gender-inclusive restrooms that would allow the public to peer into them from the hallway.
In August, a new right-wing school board for the South Western School District, in Hanover, Pennsylvania, passed the policy to "increase oversight of the wash area." School Board President Matthew Gelazela said that the district would be adding additional privacy measures, including taller stalls, for the toilets in the restroom, according to the York Dispatch.
The bathrooms targeted explicitly for these new renovations were those where students may use facilities based on their gender identity.
The Trump presidential campaign has doubled down on its anti-transgender rhetoric, running an attack ad against Vice President and Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris for her support of allowing incarcerated transgender individuals to receive gender-affirming care, including surgeries.
The ad, titled "Nonsense," features clips of Harris speaking about her record as California's attorney general with Mara Keisling, former executive director of the National Center for Transgender Equality. Harris discusses whether transgender inmates would be allowed to receive treatments for gender dysphoria that their doctors had classified as "medically necessary."