Transgender rights

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 &...

One local organization is petitioning for Worcester, Massachusetts, to become a sanctuary city for transgender and gender diverse people. The push has picked up steam after President Donald Trump signed an executive order requiring federal agencies to recognize only two sexes — male and female. He since signed another seeking to curtail anyone under 19 from transitioning. Queer Residents of…

After a debate Tuesday, the Worcester City Council voted in favor of a resolution to protect transgender and gender-diverse people.

The Department of Education took another step Tuesday in advancing the Trump administration’s new transgender policy for sports by asking the NCAA and a key high-school sports organization to restore titles, awards and records it says have been “misappropriated by biological males competing in female categories.”

The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children said it would be removing all references to transgender people from its public materials.

The NCAA changed its participation policy for transgender athletes on Thursday, limiting competition in women’s sports to athletes assigned female at birth only.

The U.S. Department of Education is investigating Massachusetts’ high school sports association after the Trump administration changed federal policy on transgender student athletes’ involvement in sports. The agency announced it’s investigating the Massachusetts Interscholastic Athletic Association, as well as San Jose State University and the University of Pennsylvania, for suspected violations of Title IX, which prevents discrimination based on...

President Donald Trump is ready to take his fight against transgender athletes to the International Olympic Committee ahead of the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics.

In a speech on Wednesday, President Trump said his administration was putting every school receiving federal funding on notice that if they “let men take over women’s sports teams” they would “be investigated for violations of Title IX.”

President Donald Trump signed an executive order Wednesday prohibiting transgender women and girls from competing in female sports.

A federal judge has agreed to temporarily block prison officials from transferring three incarcerated transgender women to men’s facilities and terminating their access to hormone therapy under an executive order signed by President Donald Trump.

One local organization is petitioning for Worcester, Massachusetts, to become a sanctuary city for transgender and gender diverse people. The push has picked up steam after President Donald Trump signed an executive order requiring federal agencies to recognize only two sexes — male and female. He since signed another seeking to curtail anyone under 19 from transitioning. Queer Residents of…

With President Donald Trump’s executive order on gender, activists are ramping up a petition for Worcester to stand behind transgender and gender diverse people.

President Trump signed two executive orders restricting transition care for minors and prohibiting federal funding from promoting “gender ideology.”

On Monday, Trump directed the Pentagon to conduct a review that is likely to lead to transgender people being barred from military service.

A trial is scheduled to begin Monday in Bismarck over North Dakota’s ban on gender-affirming medical care for kids.

The House passed legislation Tuesday that would ban transgender athletes from participating in women’s and girls’ sports at schools and institutions receiving federal funds.

A judge has rejected a request to block a San Jose State women’s volleyball team member from playing in a conference tournament on grounds that she’s transgender.