Transgender rights

The Trump administration is suing Maine’s education department for not complying with the government’s push to ban transgender athletes in girls sports.

On the first day of his administration, President Donald Trump signed an executive order directing the federal government to no longer consider a person’s gender and to recognize people as either male or female, as defined by the size of their reproductive cells

A transgender college student declared “I am here to break the law” before entering a women’s restroom at the Florida State Capitol in Tallahassee and being handcuffed by police.

The Departments of Education and Justice said the new team will “protect students, and especially female athletes, from the pernicious effects of gender ideology.”

As a transgender man, Nicolas Talbott’s lifelong dream of joining the U.S. military was put on hold when President Donald Trump signed the transgender military ban. After suing for the right to serve his country, Talbott is now suing the Trump administration again– this time, to stay enlisted.

This is the first time South Dakota has had a state law restricting transgender people’s bathroom access.

The Trump administration is pausing $175 million in federal funding to the University of Pennsylvania over its transgender athlete policies, the White House announced Wednesday in a post on X.

In a 12-1 vote Wednesday, the Boston City Council approved a resolution supporting transgender people

Pointing to what they see as harmful rhetoric against LBTQ+ people coming from the White House, city councilors voted 12-1 Wednesday on a measure supporting the community.

A House hearing ended abruptly ended Tuesday after an exchange between a Republican and a Democratic committee member over the GOP chair’s misgendering Rep. Sarah McBride.

Legislation that aimed to bar transgender women and girls nationwide from participating in school athletic competitions designated for female athletes failed to advance Monday.

Texas is suing three physicians over claims that they violated the state’s ban on gender-affirming care for minors, calling the doctors “scofflaws” in lawsuits filed last fall that threaten to impose steep fines and revoke their medical licenses.

Maine Gov. Janet Mills says President Donald Trump does not have the right to withhold funding appropriated by Congress and paid for by taxpayers “in an attempt to coerce someone into compliance with his will.”

The complaint marks an escalation of the Republican administration’s criticism of the judiciary, which has been weighing a slew of legal challenges to Trump’s actions.

The back-and-forth came in the middle of the president’s remarks welcoming the nation’s governors to the White House.

During a meeting of governors at the White House on Friday, President Trump asked Maine Gov. Janet Mills if she would comply with his order barring transgender female athletes from competing at schools receiving federal funding.

The Trump administration recently issued guidance that uses sex assigned at birth to determine gender markers on newly issued passports.

Just last year, the EEOC updated its guidance to specify that deliberately using the wrong pronouns for an employee, or refusing them access to bathrooms corresponding with their gender identity, constituted a form of harassment.

A federal judge on Thursday temporarily blocked President Donald Trump’s executive order aiming to restrict transgender health care for anyone under 19.

Two students challenging New Hampshire’s ban on transgender athletes on girls sports teams will also fight President Donald Trump’s executive order, “Keeping Men Out of Women’s Sports,” after a judge approved their request Wednesday....

It’s believed to be the first time that the constitutionality of the executive order signed by Trump last week is being challenged in court, according to Boston-based GLBTQ Legal Advocates &...