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"Medical intervention for trans people, like all others, should be undertaken based on individual informed consent," writes Kyle Knight, co-interim director of Human Rights Watch's LGBT Rights Program.
In an impassioned speech at an award ceremony last Sunday, the designer denounced Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s far-right-led coalition for ongoing measures to restrict LGBTQ+ rights.
The world's swimming governing body, FINA, announced the policy on Sunday.
Government policy and legislation impact lives just as much as the availability of health care services.
U.S. Rep. Jim Banks's misgendering of the top transgender federal government official violated Twitter's hateful conduct policy.
At the World Economic Forum, Biden tells execs they can help change public opinion and government policy in homophobic nations.
The families, represented by right-wing attorneys, claim the federal government's policies on trans students amount to "discrimination" against cisgender students.
Even before the government completes its policy review, the vice president says transgender members of the military are qualified to serve openly.
The group will now let each sport's governing body set standards for trans inclusion, but some fear this will create a confusing patchwork of policies.
In a historic policy shift, the government-funded volunteer service organization will now consider committed same-sex couples married, offering joint placements, a benefit previously only available to opposite-sex spouses.
National Black Justice Coalition CEO H. Alexander Robinson discusses the U.S. government policy that "requires all federal agencies to recognize only opposite-sex marriages for the purposes of administering federal programs."
A same-sex marriage ban prevents governments and universities in Michigan from providing health insurance to the partners of gay workers, the state supreme court ruled Wednesday. The 5-2 decision affects up to 20 universities, community colleges, school districts, and governments in Michigan with policies covering at least 375 gay couples. Gay rights advocates said the ruling was devastating but were confident that public-sector employers have successfully rewritten or will revise their benefit plans so same-sex partners can keep getting health care.
The Barack Obama campaign announced Wednesday that David Noble, former executive director of the National Stonewall Democrats and current director of public policy and government affairs at the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, has been appointed as director of the LGBT vote for the campaign. Noble will be stepping down from his position at NGLTF and officially starting with the campaign on June 21. As the campaign switches gears to the general election, deputy campaign manager Steve Hildebrand said, "We have moved aggressively to set up our national LGBT vote operation and to staff it with the best people we can possibly get." Hildebrand, who is gay, called Noble a "well-seasoned" political operative.
Civil rights lawyer, Chase Strangio, weeds through the Trump lies and spin.
Transgender Washington, D.C., residents will now be able to purchase insurance policies that include coverage for transition-related care on the D.C. health exchange or through Medicaid benefits.
The House-approved bill, now going to the Senate, would mean the state and cities couldn't require companies they do business with to have nondiscrimination policies.
Ray Mabius made the remark on the one-year anniversary of Donald Trump's announcement of the ban.
He says the current restrictions on queer men from donating sperm in Canada is discrimination.
Young Life bars those who "practice a homosexual lifestyle" from staff and volunteer positions.
