Utah House passes bill that restricts all trans people's use of bathrooms in the state — and threatens jail
H.B. 257 would not only ban transgender folks from many public facilities but also call for jail time.
January 24, 2024
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Trans Woman Wins Settlement in Suit Against California Gym
Crunch Fitness of El Cajon had denied Christynne Wood access to the women's locker room and other facilities.
December 9, 2021
Denied Female Identity at Barnes & Noble, Calif. Trans Woman Files Suit
Victoria Ramirez claims her managers at Barnes & Noble refused to recognize her as female, barring her from using women's facilities, female pronouns, or even discussing her transition with coworkers.
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May 8, 2015
Michigan Court Insults Trans Women, Punishes Gym for Pro-LGBT Policy
An appeals court declares trans women aren't really women but "men who self-identify as women."
August 1, 2018
N.Y. court won't block Nassau County's anti-trans sports law
The New York Civil Liberties Union plans to appeal, but for now, the law will stay in place while a suit against it is heard.
January 22, 2025
CeCe McDonald Prison Confinement Raises Concerns
CeCe McDonald, the transgender woman sentenced to 41 months in jail after pleading guilty to second-degree manslaughter in a violent attack against her, is being held in a male facility in Minnesota, including time in solitary confinement.
June 11, 2012
NY court strikes down Nassau County order banning transgender athletes from competing on girls’ sports teams
Civil rights groups lauded the court decision, saying it struck down a harmful policy.
May 12, 2024
Judge Orders Transgender Woman Prisoner to Women’s Facility
The judge said his hands were tied by state law in the ruling.
November 22, 2023
Trans Man Strip-Searched, Files Human Rights Complaint
Boyd Kodak faced three days of horror, he says, when he was detained by police and placed in women's facilities where he was stripped, forced to wear women's clothing, and humiliated by other inmates.
November 16, 2014
Mississippi bill would let those incarcerated sue state over trans inmates
The bill is from the same Republican who introduced last year’s ban on gender-affirming care for trans youth.
February 23, 2024
Federal judge blocks Trump’s transfer of transgender women to men’s prisons
He ruled that the Trump administration’s policy likely violated the Constitution’s prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment.
February 25, 2025
Trans Women to Get Own Housing Unit on Rikers Island
The New York City jail is opening a new housing unit for transgender women to offer protection against rape and other violent incidents.
November 19, 2014
University of Arkansas Changes Trans Bathroom Policy for Student After DOJ Gets Involved
Jennifer Braly scores a win.
May 25, 2012
Woman Sues Planet Fitness Over Trans-Inclusive Policy
Yvette Cormier claims she suffered emotional damage after sharing a gym locker room with a trans woman who entered briefly to hang up her coat.
March 25, 2015
Trans Comic Avery Edison Flying Home to U.K. Thursday
After thousands of tweets using the #FreeAvery hashtag, trans detainee Avery Edison was transferred out of an all-male correctional facility, to one with a female population. On Wednesday afternoon, her partner announced that Edison would be returned to the United Kingdom on Thursday.
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February 12, 2014
New Immigration Guidelines Are Not Enough, Say Activists
A new memorandum from Immigration and Customs Enforcement indicates the agency will house transgender women in women's detention facilities.
June 29, 2015
Trans Teen Girl Placed in Boys' Reform School
Now out of a women's adult correctional facility, Conn. teen Jane Doe finds herself placed in a school for delinquent boys following accusations of another assault.
July 14, 2014
Melissa Etheridge on being a 'proud mother' to queer artists and the healing power of music
“I know that my art has healed me just year after year after year. It keeps healing me," Etheridge says. "I’m just so grateful and always hope that my music can do that for people."
August 27, 2024
Trump will ban trans women from women's prisons by removing trans inmates from rape protections
Provisions in one of the first orders signed by Trump mandate that transgender women be housed in men's prisons by stripping protections for trans prisoners in the Prison Rape Elimination Act.
January 24, 2025
Congress has always been hostile to women trying to use the bathroom
Nancy Mace’s proposal to cut bathroom access for trans women in the Capitol is the latest in the building’s long history of excluding women lawmakers.
November 19, 2024
Trans Inmates Often Led to Slaughter, Even in Blue States
Massachusetts -- viewed as a bastion of tolerance -- only recently began recognizing the humanity of trans prisoners.
February 1, 2019