gender identity

Over 20 GOP-led states sue Biden administration over Title IX rules for LGBTQ students

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Amanda Smith

At least 22 Republican-led states are suing the Biden administration over its new rules to protect LGBTQ students from discrimination in federally ...

As States Resist Federal Gender Rules, Schools Are Caught in the Middle

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Amanda Smith

New civil rights regulations released last month by the Biden administration presented school districts across the nation with a clear choice: Either ...

Mississippi Republicans revive bill to regulate transgender bathroom use in schools

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Amanda Smith

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi’s Republican-led Legislature completed a last-ditch effort Thursday to revive a bill to regulate transgender people’s use of ...

Conservative states challenge federal rule on treatment of transgender students

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Amanda Smith

At least five Republican state attorneys general are challenging a federal regulation that seeks to protect the rights of transgender students in ...

Transgender Louisianans lost their ally in the governor’s seat. Now they’re girding for a fight

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Amanda Smith

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — As transgender people in Louisiana watched surrounding states in the deeply conservative South implement a slew of ...

Education Department boosts legal defenses for transgender students

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Amanda Smith

The Biden administration is cementing its efforts to codify new protections for transgender students and overhaul much of a Trump-era policy that ...

New York AG sends cease-and-desist over transgender sports ban in Nassau County

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Amanda Smith

The New York Attorney General’s Office sent a cease-and-desist letter to Nassau County over its recent anti-transgender sports ban. “The Order’s immediate ...

West Virginia lawmakers push to remove a suicide risk exemption from gender-affirming care bill

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Amanda Smith

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — Some Republican lawmakers in West Virginia want to ban transgender youth at risk for self-harm or suicide from ...

GOP candidates elevate anti-transgender messaging as a rallying call to Christian conservatives

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Amanda Smith

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Thousands of people in one of South Carolina’s most conservative counties roared when Donald Trump promised to cut ...

Florida state congressman introduces bill to ban Pride flags from campuses

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Amanda Smith

A Florida state congressman, convinced students in the state are being “subliminally indoctrinated with critical race theory, Marxism and transgender ideology”, has ...