A new report from education watchdog Defending Education called out San Diego Unified School District’s "Equity and Belonging ...

A New Jersey judge ruled Friday that three school districts are temporarily prohibited from enforcing new policies on transgender students in which schools would be required to alert parents if their ...

HOUSTON — Civil rights groups are considering legal action after the Texas Department of Public Safety said it would no longer accept court orders to change the sex of individuals’ driver’s licenses ...

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The maddening experience of the average transgender US citizen is nothing next to the average transgender immigrant’s journey navigating the US immigration system. The government has clear answers for ...

Legal experts remind business leaders that it is is still illegal for most employers to discriminate against employees because of their transgender status. The Trump Administration’s campaign against ...

More than a dozen Iowa cities and counties shield trans people from discrimination. Will Iowa Republican lawmakers pass legislation to stop them?

Transgender Floridians can no longer change the listed gender on their driver licenses. The Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles quietly announced the change in a memo late last ...

The introduction to today's long opinion by Judge Roger Benitez in Mirabelli v. Olson (S.D. Cal.): Long before Horace ...

Iowa became the first state to remove gender identity from its civil rights code under a law that took effect Tuesday, meaning transgender and nonbinary residents are no longer protected from ...

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The island nation of Cuba will now allow transgender people to change the gender markers on their government-issued identity cards without having to undergo “bottom surgery,” a legal change long ...