When the Americans with Disabilities Act was passed in 1990, Jesse Helms insisted on tacking on an amendment which excluded application of the ADA to transgender people.
Kate Lynn Blatt of Pottsville, PA sued Cabella, Inc. in 2014 for sex discrimination in her dismissal after she suffered much harassment, including being forced to wear a name tag with the name she was assigned at birth.
YouGov has published a new survey about the conditions in which transgender people live.
Twenty-four percent of American adults think being transgender is a mental disease. Fort-seven percent think being transgender is a choice.
Recall that SCOTUS sent the case Grimm v Gloucester County School Board back to the Fourth District after the Trump DOJ and DOE withdrew interpretation of Title IX protections against discrimination from transgender students.
Alaska Governor Bill Walker won election in 2014 after merging his campaign as an independent with that of Democratic nominee Byron Mallott. Mallott is currently the Lieutenant Governor.
Yesterday Judge Louis Guirola Jr. of the US District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi sentenced Joshua Vallum to 49 years in prison for the hate crime murder of Mercedes Williamson, a transgender Alabama teenager.
This was the first ever application of federal hate crime laws in regards to the murder of a transgender person.
Chelsea Manning is scheduled to be released from the United States Disciplinary Barracks at Fort Leavenworth on Wednesday.
Pvt. Manning will remain on unpaid active duty pending her final appellate review. As such, she will continue to receive health care and have access to commissaries and military exchanges.
On Wednesday the Oregon Senate voted 23-6 to pass HB 2673, which removes barriers to transgender people obtaining state official document in keeping with our gender identity.
The bill now moves on to Gov. Kate Brown's desk.
Canadian Sen. Grant Mitchell of Alberta is the sponsor of Bill C-16 and the government whip in the Senate.
There is currently a transgender cadet at each of the Air Force Academy and at West Point, who are set to graduate if they pass their final exams.
Conservative blogs have been having themselves some lols at the expense of Buzzfeed and transgender people.
A right wing troll named Sly Buehl Rigilio and his trolling group Rigatoni Family tried to enter the Counter-Strike: Global Offensive 5-on-5 Female Open Summer 2017 tournament hosted by ESL and conducted by Munich Finest Gaming.
