All posts tagged "transgender"
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Missouri transgender teen’s killing will not be charged as a hate crime
The Missouri youths who killed a transgender teenager with whom they had been friends prior to her coming out will not be charged with a...
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Powerful trans rights doc “Raising Zoey” screens at HRC Equality Center
Documents teenage trans activist Zoey Luna's fight to be recognized by her school
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How “Transparent” is Transforming Television
Amazon's "Transparent" continues its steady, brilliantly determined march to change the way we experience gender and sexuality
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Positive Impact: Seeing transgender people on TV changes attitudes
How much do trans characters on TV impact cultural attitudes? A lot, actually.
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Two trans women challenging Iowa’s ban on Medicaid coverage for surgery
Lawyers for the two women claim the ban is discriminatory and violates Iowa's Civil Rights Act
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Anti-gay group pushing Michigan school district to reverse pro-transgender policy
Alliance Defending Freedom, an anti-gay group that is behind the bulk of challenges to pro-transgender policies in school districts throughout the nation, has raised the...
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Montana Supreme Court tells state to revise anti-transgender measure’s ballot statement
The Montana Supreme Court has ordered the Office of Attorney General Tim Fox (R) to rewrite language for the ballot statement and fiscal note associated...
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McCain supports blocking Trump’s trans military ban
Senator McCain said "we should welcome all those who are willing and able to serve"
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Pentagon’s guidance says transgender troops will be able to re-enlist through February
New guidance released last week by the Pentagon will allow currently serving transgender service members to re-enlist in the next several months until the Department...
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Harvard dean says offering Chelsea Manning fellowship was a “mistake”
—Douglas W. Elmendorf, the dean of Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government, writing in a 700-word statement apologizing for extending the offer of a visiting...
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Republicans block Gillibrand-Collins amendment to defense bill
Senate Republican leaders blocked a bipartisan amendment to the annual defense bill that would have stopped the Pentagon from implementing the bulk of President Trump’s...
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LGBTQ groups in second lawsuit against Trump trans ban seek injunction
The LGBTQ organizations behind a second lawsuit challenging President Trump’s ban on transgender military members have asked for a federal court to issue an injunction...
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ACLU requests “immediate halt” to Trump’s transgender military ban
The American Civil Liberties Union has filed a motion asking a judge to to “immediately halt” the Trump administration’s ban on out transgender service members...
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Family and friends launch GoFundMe to send Gavin Grimm to college
Family and friends of Gavin Grimm have launched a GoFundMe page to help the transgender teenage advocate pay for college, reports the Daily Press. Vanessa...
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Senators introduce defense bill amendment to halt Trump’s trans military ban
Amendment would force Department of Defense to continue reviewing open deployment of trans troops
