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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?
Though the original law was written for public schools, the Florida Department of Education approved a new rule expanding it to private schools.
Utah's anti-transgender bathroom snitch line has gotten over 12,000 complaints — only five were investigated, and none turned up anything.
From slurs to false accusations, here are 12 times Nancy Mace manufactured political stunts just to feel the public eye's gaze.
A look at the attention-seeking political gamesmanship of the South Carolina congresswoman that will lead to real people getting hurt.
"All it does is allow these Republicans to go around and bully any woman who isn't wearing a skirt because they think she might not look woman enough," Ocasio-Cortez said.
The Buckeye State becomes the 11th state restricting trans bathroom rights.
After a decade and more than 16 tries, state lawmakers will send to the governor's desk an anti-trans bill, which restricts access to public facilities and places a $25,000 fine on the first violation.
“The only way anyone is going to realistically try to enforce this is by looking at a person and deciding they don’t look quite ‘feminine’ or ‘masculine’ enough,” said a policy strategist with the ACLU.
The justices declined to immediately overrule a lower court’s block on South Carolina’s bathroom ban law.
The move is the latest in a series of states that have tried to launch ways to report transgender issues to authorities; such attempts in other states have not been successful.
“I strongly support LGBTQ rights and equality. No one should be discriminated against. I do believe that religious liberty, the First Amendment, gay rights, and transgender equality can all coexist," Mace said in 2021.
The bathroom ban was attached to the "College Credit Plus" program designed to help students enter dual enrollment and is the first anti-trans law to pass after the 2024 elections.
Montana looks to have become the very first state to hear an anti-trans bill in 2025 — a bathroom ban targeting adult transgender people in any publicly owned building.
"It defies understanding, except for the fact that it's a pretty obvious part of a politics of misdirection and distraction," McBride said of Republicans' proposed federal anti-trans legislation.
About 15 activists were arrested in the U.S. Capitol today while protesting Republicans' transgender bathroom ban with a sit-in.
A Boise State University student and a member of the University of Idaho community brought the lawsuit in federal court.
The announcement was tucked away in the Congressional Record.
The Republican governor of Arkansas says it’s to protect children from the “left’s woke agenda.”
With the ruling, LGBTQ+ students are at risk of discrimination at school in the majority of states.
The signs at the University of Cincinnati were put up as a result of a new Ohio law. Students are outraged over them as well as the potential rollback of DEI programs.
