The Biden administration has already started nixing multiple Trump-era policies on gender, transgender rights, and reproductive healthcare through executive order. It’s also planning to further entrench those rights into federal to show its commitment to gender equality. Some actions will take more than an executive order or require Congress to […]
HUD Secretary Ben Carson horrified aides by making derogatory comments about transgender individuals in a staff meeting in the agency’s San Francisco office, the Washington Post reported. HUD employees told the Post that he made the comments in front of approximately 50 staffers at a recent event when he referred […]
The Justice Department outlined, in a Friday court filing, its reasons why transgender discrimination in the workplace is illegal under federal law. The filing is related to an upcoming Supreme Court case involving a transgender funeral worker Aimee Stephens, who was fired from her position after announcing her transition. Per […]
The Victoria’s Secret brand PINK is facing criticism on Twitter, following a tweet celebrating the LGBTQ community during Pride Month. “Here at PINK, we’re proud to celebrate our LGBTQ associates & customers that make an impact in their communities,” the tweet reads. “Inclusion makes us stronger and we’re committed to […]
Map Pesqueira, a freshman at the University of Texas at Austin said he is losing his Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC) scholarship over the new transgender military policies. Under the Department of Defence’s new policy, anyone who has already started hormone treatments or gender-affirmation surgeries are unable to enlist in […]
Over a thousand Google employees have signed a petition calling for the removal of Kay Coles James, the president of the conservative Heritage Foundation think tank, from Google’s recently announced artificial-intelligence ethics board. James has previously made anti-trans comments, including calling transgender women “biological males.” Googlers Against Transphobia, the group […]
The 12th District Court of Appeals in Middleton, Ohio, overturned a judge’s decision to not let a 15-year-old transgender teen legally change his name. The teen, who was born female but identifies as male, realised he was transgender in 2017, and his parents took him to therapy and discussed starting […]
Police have accused Nikki Joly, 54, of burning down his home in Jackson, Michigan, with a fire that killed his two dogs and three cats in August 2017. According to a police report obtained by The Detroit News, police believe he may have burned down the home because there were […]
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez called into a Twitch fundraising stream organised by British YouTube star Hbomberguy, whose real name is Harry Brewis. Brewis launched the Donkey Kong 64 stream to raise money for the charity Mermaids, which raises money for transgender youth. Ocasio-Cortez spoke about the government shutdown when she called […]
Viral footage appears to show a transgender woman being kicked out of Denny’s after using the women’s restroom. Jazmina Saavedra, who’s running for US Congress and is the spokeswoman for Latinos for Trump, posted a video of herself monitoring the restroom and saying there was “a man inside saying he’s […]
Chelsea Manning, the transgender former Army private best known for leaking the largest batch of classified government documents in US history, filed papers this week to run for the US Senate in Maryland. She will challenge Democratic Sen. Ben Cardin in his party’s primary later this year. President Barack Obama […]
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