HONOLULU (AP) — The top legal officers in 18 states and the District of Columbia have asked Congress to pass legislation prohibiting discrimination against transgender service members. Hawaii Attorney General Douglas Chin sent the letter dated Thursday in response to President Donald Trump’s announcement, via Twitter a day earlier, that he would ban transgender people […]
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Donald Trump to bar transgender individuals from military
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is barring transgender people from serving in the military “in any capacity,” citing “tremendous medical costs and disruption.” Trump’s announcement Wednesday morning on Twitter did not say what would happen to transgender people already in the military. The president tweeted that after consulting with “Generals and military experts,” the […]
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Supreme Court sends back case on transgender bathroom rights
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court is returning a transgender teen’s case to a lower court without reaching a decision. The justices said Monday they have opted not to decide whether federal anti-discrimination law gives high school senior Gavin Grimm the right to use the boys’ bathroom in his Virginia school. The case had been scheduled […]
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End of transgender bathroom rule gets conservative praise
WASHINGTON (AP) — Conservatives are praising the Trump administration’s rollback of public school bathroom requirements for transgender students, saying the move corrects a legal overreach by the Obama administration that is best left for states to decide. Transgender rights advocates, meanwhile, are vowing to overcome a major setback. “We’re not discouraged. And we’re going to […]
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Transgender in Maine
“We’ve always been open and open to truth, because that’s going to lead to more strength and understanding than fighting back, retaliating and being fearful,” Knight said. There are likely thousands of transgender Mainers. They’re your neighbors, co-workers, family. Their reality is much more than the bathroom thing. Today, they tell their stories. No one […]
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Gov. Paul LePage joins suit over Obama’s transgender directive
AUGUSTA — Gov. Paul LePage has pledged his name in support of a lawsuit against guidance from President Barack Obama’s administration that transgender students must be allowed to use the bathroom of their choice. Lepage joined a lawsuit spearheaded by the state of Texas and joined by the states of Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Oklahoma, Tennessee, […]
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Businesses push back at N.C. ant-discrimination restrictions
RALEIGH, N.C. — Corporations expressed disappointment and the NCAA vowed to monitor what North Carolina does next now that the state has banned any local government measures protecting people from discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity. American Airlines, which operates its second-largest hub in Charlotte; IBM and Biogen, which have facilities […]
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Paul LePage argues against changing Virginia transgender restroom use policy
AUGUSTA — Gov. Paul LePage and other conservative elected officials have asked a federal court in Virginia to block a transgender boy’s challenge of his school district’s bathroom-use policy, arguing he is “biologically of the female sex.” A brief from LePage and other state Republican officials Monday challenges the American Civil Liberties Union’s lawsuit on […]
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U.S. military ready to lift ban on transgender soldiers
WASHINGTON — Pentagon leaders are finalizing plans aimed at lifting the ban on transgender individuals in the military, with the goal of formally ending one of the last gender- or sexuality-based barriers to military service, senior U.S. officials told The Associated Press. An announcement is expected this week, and the services would have six months […]
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Maine Supreme Court allows transgender student to use girls’ restroom
PORTLAND — The Maine Supreme Judicial Court on Thursday reversed a lower court’s decision that banned a transgender child from using the girls’ bathroom in Orono schools. In a 5-1 decision, the justices said that Superior Court Justice William Anderson erred when he ruled in favor of what is now Riverside RSU 26. “Our opinion […]