President Trump signed a series of executive actions that would limit transgender and nonbinary people’s rights by focusing on “gender ideology.” But the term is loaded, without a universal definition.
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Federal websites down as agencies implement executive order ‘defending women’
After the president singed an executive order “defending women against gender ideology extremism,” several federal government websites on gender and sexual health disappear.
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Trump issues order to ban transgender troops from serving openly in the military
The executive order speaks of transgender identity in sweeping and dismissive terms, and sets the stage for a policy that is more restrictive and punitive than the ban from Trump’s first term.
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Dr. Rachel Levine focused on her job at HHS. Still, anti-trans politics followed her
Dr. Rachel Levine is the highest ranking, out transgender person ever to serve in the federal government. Her tenure at HHS ran concurrent with an explosion in state legislation targeting transgender people.
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Montana lawmakers cross the aisle to block a trans bathroom ban in the state capitol
Some Republicans joined Democrats in rejecting the measure, which would have restricted bathroom access. Rep. Zooey Zephyr, Montana’s first openly transgender legislator, won a second term last month.
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GOP ads on transgender rights are dominating airwaves in the election’s closing days
The ad spending, which includes at least $17 million by the Trump campaign, is part of a broader Republican strategy casting the Democratic Party as taking transgender rights to extremes.
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Her state bans gender-affirming care for teenagers. So she travels 450 miles for it
An estimated 110,000 trans teenagers live in states that ban gender-affirming care for minors. Some travel huge distances every few months to keep getting their treatment out-of-state.
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In just a few years, half of all states passed bans on trans health care for kids
The Supreme Court will hear a case on gender-affirming care in the next term after a flurry of legislation. Lower courts have come to conflicting conclusions when these bans were challenged.
