transgender rights

Federal judges have temporarily blocked new laws in Arkansas and West Virginia restricting transgender people’s rights.

New Jersey’s prison system is about to begin housing inmates based on gender identity

Kataluna Enriquez, who was crowned Miss Nevada USA on Sunday, will become the first openly transgender woman to compete in the Miss USA pageant.

The Supreme Court has rejected a Virginia school board’s appeal to reinstate its transgender bathroom ban

The U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear a court case over a transgender student’s fight to use the boys’ bathroom at his high school, upholding a lower court’s finding that treating transgender students differently violates federal law banning sex discrimination in schools.

One man was arrested, another man was ticketed for trespassing and a third person was hurt at a chaotic public meeting Tuesday on equity issues in Loudoun County Public Schools.

Kayla Gore is the co-founder and executive director of My Sistah’s House, a Memphis-based organization that serves trans and queer people of color.

According to an analysis of company reviews by Glassdoor, LGBTQ employees are less satisfied at work compared to their non-LGBTQ counterparts.

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The Biden administration says the government will protect gay and transgender people against sex discrimination in health care

The NCAA has reached a delicate moment: It must decide whether to punish states that have passed laws limiting the participation of transgender athletes.

“We frankly right now have more laws being proposed to oppose transgender children participating [in sports], than we have transgender children who are actually participating,” said Palm Springs, California councilmember Lisa Middleton, the first transgender person elected to a political office in the state. She and Tony Hoang of Equality California sound off with LX News.

The National Black Justice Coalition says no other year on record has seen as many anti-trans pieces of legislation compared to 2021. More than 117 bills were introduced in state legislatures this year, including some that use the word “fairness” in their titles. NBJC’s David Johns breaks down the issue for LX News.

NBCLX is looking back at the most inspiring people we profiled this year as part of NBCUniversal News Group’s Inspiring America series. The first person we are recognizing is Nicolas Talbott, who sued the federal government after former President Donald Trump banned transgender servicemembers from the military.

A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit that sought to prevent transgender athletes from competing in girls high school sports in Connecticut

Tennessee House lawmakers have passed a bill that would put public schools at risk of civil lawsuits if they let transgender students or employees use multi-person bathrooms or locker rooms that don’t reflect their gender at birth.

Arkansas’ governor has vetoed legislation that would have made his state the first to ban gender confirming treatments for transgender youth, though lawmakers could enact the restriction over his objections.

Despite a growing number of athletes coming out as LGBTQ in college, fewer than 3% of NCAA D-I athletes compete in departments that fully protect their LGBTQ identities. Ohio State University, Boston University, the University of Miami and the University of Southern California were among the schools that performed the best.

Athlete Ally reported that the vast majority of NCAA Division I athletic departments did not have fully inclusive trans athlete policies as of March 2021, according to a summary of this year’s equality index.

Transgender people have more visibility in America than ever before, but that visibility has come at a deadly cost.