News for the LGBTQ+ Community Since 2010
News for the LGBTQ+ Community Since 2010
Sarah TocePresident Donald J. Trump issued a broad ban on health care for transgender youth Tuesday, including denying coverage to children of federal employees, postal employees, and military service members. The…
Read moreSarah ToceIn a historic moment for judicial diversity, the U.S. Senate confirmed Mary Kay Costello to serve as a district court judge in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania by a vote…
Read moreSarah ToceThe report reveals lack of protective policies, new harms, and little effort at preventing system involvement or meeting the needs of trans and nonbinary youth. National experts alongside a group…
Read moreSarah ToceWest Virginia is one of 19 states that have banned transgender student-athletes in just the last three years as part of an escalating wave of state-level restrictions on the rights of transgender people. Similar federal lawsuits are pending in Idaho and Tennessee.
Read moreSarah ToceA federal district judge struck down as unconstitutional the U.S. Social Security Administration’s categorical denial of survivor’s benefits to surviving same-sex partners who were barred from marrying due to discriminatory state marriage bans.
Read moreSarah ToceThe order immediately blocks HHS from implementing two key parts of the health care discrimination rule that invited discrimination against LGBTQ people and providers to elevate their own religious beliefs above the needs of patients.
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