A group of soldiers are challenging President Donald Trump’s decision to reprise a ban on transgender Americans serving in the military in court, reigniting a legal fight over the controversial effort that was met with pushback by federal courts – but not definitively settled – during his first term.
GLAD Law and the National Center for Lesbian Rights filed a federal suit on behalf of six transgender service members and two trans people seeking to enlist.
With Trump proclaiming the U.S. will recognize two sexes, male and female, there are a host of implications for trans and nonbinary people.
Two national LGBTQ+ advocacy groups on Tuesday filed the first federal lawsuit challenging President Donald Trump’s executive order banning transgender people from serving in the military. GLBTQ Legal Advocates and Defenders and the National Center for Lesbian Rights filed the suit,
Under President Trump's executive order, the U.S. State Department has suspended all passport applications for the gender changes. Here's the impact.
An executive order President Donald Trump signed on his first day back in office offers a new federal government definition of the sexes that could have a major impact on transgender people nationwide.
Few trans people receive gender-affirming housing and care in the federal prison system. This executive order would make it even harder.
A federal court weighs the case of a teacher who refused to use students' chosen names and pronouns, as similar questions arise elsewhere.
Sasha Buchert, a senior attorney at Lambda Legal who represented plaintiffs who sued and temporarily blocked a similar order in 2017 in the first Trump administration, called the new order "cruel" and said it "compromises the safety of our country."
The Boston lawsuit said Trump’s order directly targets transgender Americans by attempting to deny them legal recognition under federal law and to strip them of long-established legal protections.
In an executive order, the president also moved to end gender-related medical treatments for transgender people in prison.