Biden’s Title IX sexual orientation and gender identity protections blocked in 26 states
The new rule protecting LGBTQ+ students in schools accepting federal funds took effect in the rest of the country on Thursday.
August 2, 2024
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The new rule protecting LGBTQ+ students in schools accepting federal funds took effect in the rest of the country on Thursday.
The students can use the restrooms and locker rooms for their gender identity while their lawsuits proceed, an appeals court has ruled.
But lawyers for transgender troops say one block remains.
Republican Gov. Kay Ivey signed the bill into law in 2022, and it was the subject of a lawsuit almost immediately.
Health care practitioners in the state decried the ruling as a decision that "will push abortion care almost entirely out of reach in Iowa."
A memo published today says troops who aren't willing to serve in their birth gender will be out in a month.
An appeals court ruled against the state's refusal to list both same-sex spouses on birth certificates.
The decision means the two girls can play sports this school year.
The Sixth Circuit had ruled similarly in a case out of Tennessee.
The Supreme Court ruling could leave some immigrant families in legal limbo. It also weakens the power of lower courts to block Trump’s policies from taking effect.
Those who sued to challenge the ban are likely to succeed in proving it violates their privacy rights, the court ruled.
Numerous courts placed a hold on Trump's ban on trans service members. The Supreme Court, in a 5-4 ruling, allowed it to move forward.
The court had temporarily stayed a block on the law in February and now has lifted it altogether.
The military contends the men can't be deployed overseas, despite all scientific evidence to the contrary.
Judge Liles Burke is trying to force the lawyers to reveal what they argue is attorney-client privileged information.
The court reversed a lower court's decision blocking the ban while a lawsuit against it is heard.
“This is an important victory for common sense, equality, and the rights of transgender youth under the law,” the ACLU's Chase Strangio said.
The president continues to use trans people as a scapegoat.
The justices declined to immediately overrule a lower court’s block on South Carolina’s bathroom ban law.
The case challenged a Tennessee law banning gender-affirming care for trans youth in the state.