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A proposed bill in Congress would ban trans people from bathrooms in museums, national parks and other federal property. How would it be enforced, and what are the consequences?
Anti-LGBTQ+ Attorney General Ken Paxton says the Biden administration's guidance on equal treatment of trans workers is a "radical attempt at social change."
Phillips, who won a qualified victory at the Supreme Court in another case, says it would violate his free speech rights to make a cake celebrating a gender transition.
Under a proposed rule announced by Ben Carson, federally funded shelters could turn away trans people or force them into unsafe situations.
A new rule proposed by the Department of Housing and Urban Development would gut antidiscrimination protections.
The worker and the company will now try to settlte the case; if that doesn't work out, she can sue.
Last year activists worried that the Supreme Court's ruling in Burwell v. Hobby Lobby opened the door to discrimination — but in one trans employee’s case, the bias was already occurring.Â
The Office of Civil Rights of the U.S. Department of Education declared that a school in Palatine, Ill., violated federal law by denying a trans student access to females' locker room facilities.
Billie Matthews says it was particularly disheartening to face alleged bias in an LGBT space, and was joined Monday by protesters calling for a boycott.
People with gender dysphoria are protected by the Americans With Disabilities Act, said Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke, and their rights "are not given up at the jailhouse door."
It's the first known discrimination complaint by a trans elder against such a facility.
The groups are calling on the public to raise objections to a plan to let shelters discriminate against trans clients.
A regulation being prepared by the administration would weaken protections against anti-trans discrimination in health care.
The new federal rule stands to empower discrimination against trans people, PrEP users, and more, the plaintiffs said.
