The U.S. Department of Education has concluded that four school districts in the Kansas City metropolitan area, including Topeka Public Schools, violated federal law through their transgender student policies and now face the potential loss of federal funding if no resolution is reached.
A transgender employee’s discrimination lawsuit against her former employer has been allowed to proceed after she was terminated shortly after disclosing her gender identity, with the judge ruling that the allegations were sufficient to survive early dismissal.
The U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights rescinded protections for transgender students by nullifying portions of Title IX resolution agreements, reversing policies adopted under previous administrations and prompting criticism from LGBTQ+ advocates.
Advocates and lawmakers are calling for urgent intervention at Bedford Hills Correctional Facility in New York due to multiple deaths and mounting reports of unsafe and inhumane conditions affecting transgender, gender non-conforming, non-binary, and intersex individuals, and are demanding an independent investigation into the unjustified uses of force.
Trans people are punished for exposing the construction of gender, while cis people are rewarded for maintaining the illusion of a “natural” gender identity, when in reality everyone is performing.
Nikson Mathews, a transgender man living in Idaho, has testified against Republican-backed legislation that would criminalize trans people for using bathrooms that align with their gender identity, and has faced the choice of risking arrest or potential violence for being in public.
The Tennessee House passed legislation requiring the collection and public reporting of detailed medical data related to transgender patients, drawing criticism from advocates who warn the measure threatens medical privacy.
A growing number of states are advancing legislation that restricts the rights of transgender individuals, prompting advocates to warn of sweeping national consequences.
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission voted 2-1 to allow federal agencies to restrict transgender employees to bathrooms corresponding with their sex assigned at birth, overturning nearly a decade of workplace protections.
Nearly 30 judges on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals have issued written rebukes of a colleague after his coarsely worded dissent in a case involving a spa that refused service to a transgender woman, with 27 judges condemning the remark as “vulgar barroom talk” that could undermine public trust in the courts.
A judge in Kansas rejected a request for a temporary restraining order to block the enforcement of SB 244, a state law that invalidates the driver’s licenses of transgender people and allows anyone to sue someone they suspect of being transgender for using the “wrong” restroom in government buildings.
A Kansas district court judge declined to temporarily block enforcement of a new state law that invalidates updated driver’s licenses and birth certificates for transgender people and restricts restroom access in government buildings, allowing the measure to remain in effect while litigation proceeds.
Trans Liberty has launched “Operation Lifeboat” to provide assistance to transgender Kansans affected by the enactment of Senate Bill 244, which invalidates previously issued identity documents and imposes criminal penalties for restroom use in government buildings.
Two transgender Kansas residents have filed a lawsuit challenging a newly enacted Kansas law that invalidates certain driver’s licenses, restricts updates to gender markers, and authorizes private lawsuits based on suspected transgender identity, citing violations of the Kansas Constitution.
Trans Liberty PAC has issued an evacuation warning for transgender residents of Kansas following the Legislature’s override of Gov. Laura Kelly’s veto of Senate Bill 244, which could expose individuals to civil lawsuits, criminal penalties and the invalidation of previously issued identity documents.
The leaked memorandum from U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi reveals that the government is exploring a cash reward system to incentivize people to provide information on individuals or groups promoting “radical gender ideology”, potentially leading to surveillance, investigation and punishment of trans people and their allies.
The Department of Justice released a memo under the Trump administration that threatens to roll back key protections for transgender and intersex people under the Prison Rape Elimination Act, potentially putting them at increased risk of sexual assault in federal prisons, jails, and youth facilities.
LeAnne Withdrow, a civilian employee of the Illinois National Guard, has filed a class-action lawsuit challenging a Trump-Vance administration policy that blocks intersex and transgender federal employees from using bathrooms aligned with their affirmed gender, arguing that it violates Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
Governor Gavin Newsom has signed two bills by Senator Scott Wiener, SB 59 and SB 497, expanding California’s legal and privacy protections for transgender people and reinforcing the state’s commitment to serve as a refuge for transgender individuals seeking safety, privacy, and access to medical care.
California Attorney General Rob Bonta has co-led a coalition of 17 attorneys general in filing an amicus brief urging the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals to uphold a lower court’s injunction blocking Trump administration executive orders that seek to eliminate federal programs promoting diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility (DEIA).