Washington — The Supreme Court on Tuesday appeared likely to uphold state laws that ban transgender athletes from participating in girls’ and women’s sports, wading for the first time into the contentious issue. The justices heard more than three hours of arguments in a pair of cases challenging laws from West Virginia …
J.K. Rowling recently slammed Emma Watson, calling her “ignorant” and “privileged” in a lengthy X post, intensifying their rift over transgender rights. “Like other people who’ve never experienced adult life uncushioned by wealth and fame, Emma has so little experience of real life she’s ignorant of how ignorant she is,” …
Washington — The Supreme Court on Thursday said it will consider whether states can prohibit transgender athletes from participating in girls’ and women’s sports, setting up a high-profile clash that could have far-reaching implications across the country. The justices agreed to decide whether laws from Idaho and West Virginia that …
Washington — Transgender military service members must come forward and voluntarily leave active-duty service next week, by June 6, according to Defense Department guidance issued by Secretary Pete Hegseth. After that, the military is expected to begin involuntary separations for active-duty trans service members who remain. One of the service branches, the …
Washington — The Supreme Court on Tuesday said it will allow the Trump administration to implement its policy barring transgender people from serving in the military while legal proceedings move forward. The high court agreed to pause a lower court order that had blocked the administration from implementing its ban …
The Trump administration has scrapped more than $800 million worth of research into the health of L.G.B.T.Q. people, abandoning studies of cancers and viruses that tend to affect members of sexual minority groups and setting back efforts to defeat a resurgence of sexually transmitted infections, according to an analysis of …
Federal health officials published a report on Thursday declaring that the use of hormonal and surgical treatments in young people with gender dysphoria lacked scientific evidence and expressing concern about long-term harms, a stark reversal from previous agency recommendations and the advice of top U.S. medical groups. The report instead …
Washington — President Trump on Thursday asked the Supreme Court to allow his administration’s policy prohibiting transgender people from serving in the military to take effect while legal challenges to the ban move forward. The request for the Supreme Court’s intervention comes after a federal appeals court left in place …
When Asher Lucas’s co-workers started taunting him for being transgender, saying he was “born a girl and needed to be a girl,” he figured this type of bullying would not be tolerated at a well-known restaurant. But after complaining to his manager, Mr. Lucas was fired along with three employees …
It was early February, and Dylan Mulvaney was floating on the high seas — somewhere in the Caribbean, perhaps near St. Martin — on a cruise ship filled with nearly 5,000 gay men. Ms. Mulvaney, the 28-year-old performer, trans video diarist and cultural lightning rod at the center of an …