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Trump directive ‘dangerously’ conflates gender-affirming care with a human rights violation
Groups that work to end female genital mutilation and cutting worry about an executive order that co-opts the policies they’ve worked to pass over nearly 30 years.
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Judge blocks Trump order seeking to halt gender-affirming care for trans youth
The Trump administration cannot enforce restrictions on care for Americans under 19 for at least two weeks.
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Trump's executive order sows confusion for transgender federal prisoners
Without guidance from the Bureau of Prisons, trans people are “told one thing from one staff person and a totally different thing from another.”
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Sarah McBride wants the LGBTQ+ rights movement to fight smarter, not harder
"We have to reclaim the narrative and the humanity in the public’s mind of trans people," she told The 19th.
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NCAA bans trans women from women's sports in reversal of 15-year policy
The largest college sports governing body in the country made the change following President Trump’s executive order banning trans girls from girls’ school sports.
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‘Find your allies’: Trans advocates offer guidance on how to support kids in schools
Vanessa Ford and Rebecca Kling, authors of “The Advocate Educator,” have been inundated with questions from parents, teachers and students about navigating a rapidly changing landscape.
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Families sue after losing access to gender-affirming care under Trump's executive order
The lawsuit announced by LGBTQ+ advocates Tuesday was filed on behalf of transgender people under the age of 19 in Maryland, New York and Massachusetts.
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Trump executive order on birthright citizenship casts a narrow view of family
The order only acknowledges children born to man and woman “biological progenitors.” How it would affect LGBTQ+ families is one of many questions causing worry and confusion.
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‘Patriotic education’: Trump orders federal push to monitor K-12 curriculum
Former Education Department staff describe the move as unprecedented interference into the country’s education system.
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Gender-affirming care isn’t new. An upcoming book sheds light on its history.
More than 40 authors contributed to “A History of Transgender Medicine in the United States,” which took its expert editors more than a decade to compile.