New Texas Tech University guidelines eliminating references to sexual orientation and gender identity from coursework forced nearly half of surveyed faculty members to make changes they described as harmful to their curricula.
Survey results released by the school’s Faculty Senate showed broad disapproval among educators regarding a memo issued by the university’s chancellors last…
On the heels of a court decision that Colorado LGBTQ+ advocates worried weakened protections against so-called “conversion therapy” in the state, a new law signed Monday will codify protections against the widely debunked practice.
Colorado Gov. Jared Polis, a Democrat, joined elected officials in Denver Monday morning to sign into law HB26-1322, a bill that bans therapists in the state from…
A Mississippi high school is facing backlash after a Facebook post celebrating its 2026 salutatorian deadnamed the transgender student and appeared to digitally alter his appearance.
The post, published Sunday by D'Iberville High School in Biloxi, congratulated salutatorian Jonas Hole with the caption, “Pride. Tradition. Excellence. Congratulations to our DHS Salutatorian,” before…
Colorado attorneys defended transgender students’ right to receive the same treatment as their peers during overnight school trips as a federal appeals court weighed a challenge to a school district policy allowing students to room according to gender identity.
On Tuesday, a three-judge panel on the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals heard arguments in a lawsuit backed by the conservative…
A circuit court judge has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to clarify how a recent emergency order impacts transgender citizens suing the State Department for not allowing their passports to display gender markers aligned with their identity.
Last November, the Supreme Court allowed the Trump administration to stop issuing passports to transgender residents who do not feature a gender marker…
A federal judge has ordered Oregon to house transgender women prisoners based on gender identity, issuing a ruling that conflicts with President Donald Trump’s executive order requiring that inmates be housed based on sex assigned at birth.
U.S. Magistrate Judge Mark D. Clarke issued a preliminary injunction blocking the placement of transgender women in men’s facilities and ordered the…
The Mississippi Legislature has approved a bill that would bar transgender people from changing the sex designation on new driver’s licenses except in narrow circumstances, embedding a new restriction into state law as part of a broader immigration-related measure.
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An appellate court said Iowa can enforce a ban on LGBTQ+-themed books in libraries and the Hawkeye State’s “don’t say gay” law.
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The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit removed preliminary injunctions that had blocked provisions of a law signed by Iowa Republican Gov. Kim…
Following a controversial Supreme Court decision striking down Colorado’s conversion therapy ban, advocates gathered in solidarity at the site of America’s most famous LGBTQ+ protest.
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Many of New York’s most prominent activists, from conversion therapy survivors to celebrated drag…
The International Olympic Committee has approved a new policy restricting participation in women’s events to athletes deemed “biological females,” a decision set to take effect at the 2028 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles and expected to exclude transgender women while expanding scrutiny of athletes’ bodies.
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Just 7 in 10 Americans aged 18 to 29 support nondiscrimination protections for LGBTQ+ residents, a new survey has found.
That is down from 80 percent expressing support in 2015, just ten years prior, primarily driven by a decrease in support from young Republicans, according to the Public Religion Research Institute.
While support has decreased overall in recent years, protections for…
A new phase in the fight over transgender rights is unfolding, not in legislatures, but at the ballot box.
In at least four states, voters are poised to decide measures targeting transgender people in 2026, as a coordinated wave of Republican proposals advances through citizen initiatives and legislative referrals. Some have already qualified for the ballot, while others are moving…
Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds, a Republican, signed a new law prohibiting local governments from protecting transgender Iowans’ civil rights.
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The law comes a year after Iowa became the first state in the country to roll back its civil rights code by removing gender identity from…
In most of New England, the question of whether transgender people may use bathrooms consistent with their gender identity has largely been settled. In New Hampshire, lawmakers are reopening it.
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The Republican-controlled New Hampshire House voted 181–164 on…
The Iowa House of Delegates passed a bill Thursday that would disallow local governments from including gender identity in their non-discrimination policies.
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Protections for trans residents had already been struck from the Iowa Civil Rights Act in 2025. The new bill…
Hundreds of federal surveys have removed questions tied to sexual orientation and gender identity, according to a new report from the Williams Institute, which cites President Trump’s executive orders as the reason.
The report cites the scrubbing of the questions as made by “non-substantative change requests.” This means that the removal requests lacked a valid reason or evidence to back up…
Kansas legislators have overridden Gov. Laura Kelly’s veto of a draconian anti-transgender bathroom bill, so it will become law. It goes into effect as soon as paperwork is filed with the Secretary of State’s office.
Kelly, a Democrat in a heavily Republican state, Friday vetoed Senate Bill 244, passed by lawmakers in January along party lines, Republicans for, Democrats against. But the…
Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly has vetoed what LGBTQ+ advocates are calling an anti-transgender “bathroom bounty” bill.
Kelly, a Democrat in a heavily Republican state, Friday vetoed Senate Bill 244, passed by legislators in January along party lines, Republicans for, Democrats against. It would have required trans people to restrooms and other single-sex facilities in government buildings…
Transgender women athletes do not have an inherent advantage over cisgender competitors, according to a new study.
That’s what advocates of trans inclusion have been saying for years, while anti-trans forces have been saying the opposite. Now a report in the _British Journal of Sports Medicine, _which its authors call “the most comprehensive synthesis to date,” counters the idea of inherent…
The Texas A&M professor who was fired for teaching about gender identity has filed a lawsuit against the university, accusing officials of violating her First Amendment rights.
Melissa McCoul went viral last summer when a student in her literature class objected to her correct statement that there are more than two genders, resulting in her being fired and dean of the College of Arts and…
LGBTQ+ employees at companies that have rescinded inclusionary policies are finding their workplaces hostile, and some say they’ve become less productive, according to a new Human Rights Campaign Foundation study. But inclusion pays off for workers and companies.
The foundation, the educational arm of HRC, released its 2026 State of the Workplace for LGBTQ+ Americans and Corporate Equality…