#transgender-rights

#transgender-rights

the health board was found to have harassed her by: failing to revoke the grant of permission to Dr Upton on an interim basis after Peggie complained, taking an unreasonable length of time to investigate the allegations raised against Peggie, making reference to patient care allegations against her on 28 March 2024 and giving her an instruction not to discuss the case - until a further message confirmed that only applied to the investigation.

Last April, the supreme court issued a ruling confirming that the word sex in the Equality Act 2010 refers to biological sex, not a person's legal gender. This has a wide-reaching impact on how equality law is applied in practice, particularly in providing sex-based rights such as single-sex spaces. Six months later, a draft code on the ruling's implementation was sent by the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) to the equalities minister, Bridget Phillipson.

The Peggie ruling concluded that the supreme court judgment did not make it inherently unlawful for a trans female, who is biologically male under the Equalities Act, to be given permission to use a female changing room at work. And a week earlier, another employment tribunal reached a similar conclusion, ruling in favour of the trans-inclusive toilets policy at aerospace firm Leonardo UK's office in Edinburgh.

"Comments and conduct that violate students' privacy rights or create a hostile school environment harm children, sow discord in communities, and expose school districts to costly litigation," the letter stated. "Purely ideological statements [made during board meeting public comment periods] opposing students' rights under New York law are an unproductive diversion from boards' important work... [and can] harm children who unwillingly find themselves" scrutinized, harassed, or stigmatized by school community members, the letter added.

Using the chosen names and pronouns of LGBTQ+ youth isn't just respectful - it's life-saving. Transgender and nonbinary youth (ages 13 to 24) whose pronouns are respected were 31 percent less likely to attempt suicide in the past year than those whose pronouns are not respected, according to a new report from The Trevor Project. Nearly one-fourth (23 percent) of those who said none of the people they know use their correct name and pronouns also said they have attempted suicide in the past year,

The latest legal maneuver in a months-long dispute invoking competing definitions of Title IX, the federal civil rights law prohibiting sex-based discrimination, saw the Department of Justice file suit against Virginia's Loudoun County School Board, accusing the school district of discriminating against two Christian students who were suspended after objecting to a transgender student using a boys' locker room. "Loudoun County's decision to advance and promote gender ideology tramples on the rights of religious students who cannot embrace ideas that deny biological reality," Assistant

The lawsuit was brought by several school districts but was led by District 49. That district's board passed a controversial trans sports ban back in May by a narrow margin. The lawsuit against the state was filed the day after the policy was voted in, calling for Colorado to allow the ban to be enacted and to align policies with the demands laid out in the president's "two sexes" executive order.

🏒 The gay hockey romance Heated Rivalry has been a massive hit, and the show has fans taking a closer look at the NHL -- the only major North American men's sports league with no current or former out gay players. Mey Rude explores whether that might change soon. Speaking of professional sports, the World Cup is coming to the U.S. this summer, and this week we learned that the Seattle-based game designated locally as the "Pride Match" will feature two countries where being gay is illegal.

On Tuesday, Kansas also passed a separate bill, , which ties together a number of restrictions on how trans people of all ages can move through public spaces, including a ban on transgender people using public restrooms and locker rooms and a prohibition on changing one's name and gender markers on driver's licenses. The bill, which Republicans call the "Women's Bill of Rights," defines sex in binary terms as "either male or female, at birth,"

'There were summers that I would wear two shirts just to feel comfortable enough to go outside, even if it was 100 degrees,' one man said, adding, 'When you have this condition, you're willing to go through anything and everything to overcome it.'

It was the privilege of a lifetime to be able to serve in the National Guard for 13 years and do the things that I got to do there, meet the people that I met, but really, it was about service to others, which I think is an important thing for all of us to keep in mind and something we should dedicate a little bit of our time to every day.

Stein was raised in an Orthodox Hasidic Jewish family. After suppressing her gender identity since childhood, she left the Hasidic community in 2012 and came out as trans in 2015. Now identifying as ex-Orthodox, Stein is still a practicing Rabbi, serving part-time at Brooklyn's Kolot Chayein synagogue. She released her first book in 2019, a memoir titled Becoming Eve: My Journey from Ultra Orthodox Rabbi to Transgender Woman. That memoir has since been adapted into the off-Broadway play of the same name.

In April, the supreme court ruled in a long-running case against the Scottish government brought by gender critical campaigners For Women Scotland (FWS). The landmark judgment said that, for the purposes of the Equality Act, the legal definition of a woman was based on biological sex. We look at what has happened since the ruling. The judgment has significant ramifications for who can now access women-only services and spaces, such as refuges or toilets, but most public bodies, businesses

The announcement came amid ongoing tension and break between the congresswoman and President Donald Trump. Once a vocal supporter of Trump, Congresswoman Greene voted in favor of releasing the Jeffrey Epstein files held by the Department of Justice. She had called for the release earlier, when Trump had resisted it. He finally signed a bill for the release into law this week after it was passed overwhelmingly by both the House and Senate.

The Alabama Public Library Service Board of Directors approved a rule Thursday that orders the removal of content related to "transgender procedures, gender ideology or the concept of more than two biological genders" from children's and young adult sections across the more than 200 libraries in its system. The directive bans all "sexually explicit or other material deemed inappropriate" from youth sections, though it does not define sexually explicit content.

"When I started wearing makeup and being more feminine and wanting to do certain things... it wasn't like, 'Oh my God, Jeffree needs, what do they call it now, gender-affirming care?' It's like when you're a tomboy. Did your mom... did she cut your tits off at 13? Nowadays, it's all these f*****g weirdos telling their kids, 'OMG you like a Barbie? You're a woman!'"

"We have heard calls by members of congress to institutionalise all transgender people, comments referring to transgender people as mentally ill, and false suggestions by high-level political figures that transgender people are inherently violent and must be addressed as a national security threat," the signatories to the letter claimed. That language, along with a "rising number of legislative and administrative attacks" on the community, "is taking a real toll", they added.

"In the first week of school, when I was kind of trying to convince my teachers to call me Ethan, I was like, 'Hey, look, it's still on my ID,' said Brignac, who did not want The Texas Tribune to publish his birth name because it causes him discomfort. 'Then one of my teachers this year said, 'Okay, they're gonna fix that soon.''