Vicky Hartzler (R-MO), kept her promise of a couple of weeks ago to go after service by transgender people when the Defense budget hit the floor of the House.
Hartzler introduced an amendment intended to ban medical treatment for transgender troops and their families.
Twenty-year-old Bree Holloman admits that she was someplace she shouldn't have been, doing something that she shouldn't have been doing.
Michael David Battle is the 29-year old director of the Garden of Peace Project in Pittsburgh.
Garden of Peace Project was created to uplift, uphold, and empower the narratives and lived experiences of LGBTQIA+ individuals and to address the lack of education, employment, healthcare, and housing, and the violence that impacts all LGBTQIA+ individuals.
It's dangerous for transgender women in the District these days.
Desiree Copeland was walking to visit family near the Waterfront/Navy Yards in Southwest DC on July 2 when a young man started following her. The dude then shot off a Roman candle at Desiree which struck her. She asked him to stop, but he he continued to shoot fireworks at her, causing burns to her neck and face.
I am totally not a religious person. But I find comfort in the thought that when religious sects support transgender people it opens the Constitutional right of freedom of (or from) religion for use by our side. I'm so tired of seeing that used only to claim a dubious freedom to discriminate.
The Church of England has "turned a corner" after its ruling body voted overwhelming in favour of welcoming transgender people, the vicar who brought the motion said.
On the Fourth of July someone walking by the Morris Home (an alcohol and drug treatment center for transgender people in Southwest Philadelphia), hurled an M80 at a pair of residents sitting on the porch.
On the Fourth of July an employee of the nonprofit in Southwest Philadelphia was the target of fireworks hurled from a passing vehicle while waiting for a trolley.
A transgender couple out for a walk near the Morris Home on Thursday afternoon were shot by paint guns from a dark grey Infiniti M35 sedan with silver trim.
Petitions were due yesterday afternoon to qualify initiatives to be on the ballot for the November election.
The anti-transgender group, Just Want Privacy, had been gathering signatures for proposed initiative 1552. But they needed 260,000 valid signatures to reverse a 2015 state regulation guaranteeing access to restrooms and locker rooms according to the gender a person lives with rather the sex assigned at birth. They say they came up 20,000 signatures short.
Once again I acknowledge that I am not a lawyer. But news is news.
In Wisconsin the Kenosha Unified School District is having a tough time digesting their loss at the US Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit in the case of high school senior Ash Whitaker.
The news media are often slow on adopting correct terminology for phenomena with which they have insufficient experience.
Case in point:
Male fish are turning into females thanks to chemicals from birth control pills and makeup being flushed down drains, according to a new study.
California has some new regulations that have been approved during the past year by the Department of Fair Employment and Housing. These regulations expand workplace protections for transgender and gender variant people.
