Utah joins 10 other states in regulating bathroom access for transgender people
10 months, 3 weeks ago

Utah joins 10 other states in regulating bathroom access for transgender people

Associated Press  

Utah became the latest state to regulate bathroom access for transgender people after Republican Gov. Spencer Cox signed a law Tuesday that requires people to use bathrooms and locker rooms in public schools and government-owned buildings that match their sex assigned at birth. The legislation also requires schools to create “privacy plans” for trans students and others who may not be comfortable using group bathrooms, for instance by allowing them to use a faculty bathroom — something opponents say may “out” transgender children. “This bill perpetuates discrimination, needlessly imposes barriers to the everyday needs of people in Utah, and risks harmful and discriminatory enforcement against transgender, non-binary, and gender non-conforming people,” the American Civil Liberties Union of Utah said Tuesday in a letter urging the governor to veto the legislation. Opponents said the law would still legally require a trans man who was taking testosterone and who may have grown facial hair to use women’s bathrooms and locker rooms.

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Ohio governor signs bill limiting bathroom use by transgender students
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3 weeks, 6 days ago

Ohio governor signs bill limiting bathroom use by transgender students

Associated Press  

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Transgender students from kindergarten through college at Ohio public and private schools will be banned from using multiperson bathrooms that fit their gender identities under a measure that Republican Gov. The Republican-backed measure — labeled the “Protect All Students Act” — requires public and private schools, colleges and universities to designate separate bathrooms, locker rooms and overnight …

Ohio governor signs bill limiting bathroom use by transgender students
4 weeks ago

Ohio governor signs bill limiting bathroom use by transgender students

Politico  

The Republican-backed measure — labeled the “Protect All Students Act” — requires public and private schools, colleges and universities to designate separate bathrooms, locker rooms and overnight accommodations “for the exclusive use” of either males and females, based on one’s gender assigned at or near birth, in school buildings and other facilities used for school- “It revolves around safety, security, …

Republicans support bathroom ban after US transgender lawmaker elected
1 month ago

Republicans support bathroom ban after US transgender lawmaker elected

Al Jazeera  

Republicans have pushed an effort barring the first federal transgender lawmaker from women’s restrooms in the US Capitol. The Republican majority leader in the US House of Representatives has said that bathrooms in the US Capitol will be restricted based on “individuals of that biological sex”, following the election of the first transgender person to Congress. The announcement by Majority …

Rollout of transgender bathroom law sows confusion among Utah public school families
7 months, 3 weeks ago

Rollout of transgender bathroom law sows confusion among Utah public school families

Associated Press  

SALT LAKE CITY — Utah public schools have been rushing to prepare students and teachers as the state starts cracking down Wednesday on any school found not enforcing new bathroom restrictions for transgender people. Principals in the Granite, Alpine, Davis and Salt Lake City school districts have been trained to address bathroom concerns on an individual basis, with discretion and …

Rollout of transgender bathroom law sows confusion among Utah public school families
7 months, 3 weeks ago

Rollout of transgender bathroom law sows confusion among Utah public school families

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Utah public schools have been …

Conservative states challenge federal rule on treatment of transgender students
7 months, 3 weeks ago

Conservative states challenge federal rule on treatment of transgender students

Associated Press  

Several Republican state attorneys general are challenging a federal regulation that seeks to protect the rights of transgender students in the nation’s schools by banning blanket policies that bar transgender students from school bathrooms aligning with their gender, among other provisions. “The central feature of the Final Rule is the Department’s extraordinary move to transform Title IX’s prohibition of discrimination …

Supreme Court allows Idaho to enforce its ban on gender-affirming care for transgender youth
8 months, 1 week ago

Supreme Court allows Idaho to enforce its ban on gender-affirming care for transgender youth

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court is allowing Idaho to enforce its ban on gender-affirming care for transgender youth while lawsuits over the law proceed, reversing lower courts. Lawyers for the teens wrote in court papers that the teens’ “gender dysphoria has been dramatically alleviated as a result of puberty blockers and estrogen therapy.” The American Civil Liberties Union, representing the …

Louisiana’s transgender ‘bathroom bill’ clears first hurdle
8 months, 2 weeks ago

Louisiana’s transgender ‘bathroom bill’ clears first hurdle

Associated Press  

— A bill that that would effectively bar transgender people in Louisiana from using restrooms, locker rooms and sleeping quarters that correspond with their gender identity — in public schools, jails and domestic violence shelters — advanced out of a state legislative committee Monday. While a handful of other GOP-controlled states have recently passed legislation dubbed “bathroom bills,” LGBTQ+ advocates …

Some states are trying to make sex binary. Transgender people see their existence denied
9 months, 4 weeks ago

Some states are trying to make sex binary. Transgender people see their existence denied

Associated Press  

TOPEKA, Kan. — Mack Allen, an 18-year-old high school senior from Kansas, braces for sideways glances, questioning looks and snide comments whenever he has to hand over his driver’s license, which still identifies him as female. That law and others introduced around the nation this year — often labeled as “bills of rights” for women — are part of a …

Utah Governor Signs Anti-Trans Bathroom Bill Into Law
10 months, 3 weeks ago

Utah Governor Signs Anti-Trans Bathroom Bill Into Law

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING Utah Gov. Spencer Cox signed a bill on Tuesday that will bar transgender people from using bathrooms that align with their gender identity. The law, titled Sex-Based Designations for Privacy, Anti-Bullying and Women’s Opportunities, defines “male” and “female” by a person’s genitals rather than gender identity and requires that transgender people use bathrooms that correspond with the …

West Virginia GOP majority pushes contentious bills arming teachers, restricting bathrooms, books
11 months ago

West Virginia GOP majority pushes contentious bills arming teachers, restricting bathrooms, books

Associated Press  

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — West Virginia’s Republican-dominated Legislature pushed forward a slate of contentious bills Wednesday that would arm teachers, allow people to sue libraries over books that offend them and restrict where transgender kids can use the bathroom at school. Carol Miley, a former elementary school librarian who retired in 2011, said the proposal is really about “protecting our minor …

A tale of 2 states' trans laws
1 year, 5 months ago

A tale of 2 states' trans laws

NPR  

A tale of 2 states' trans laws Families with trans children in states where gender-affirming care has been banned are deciding whether to uproot to states where care is protected. So lawmakers here - because Democrats have the majority in the Senate, the House and the governor's office - were able to pass gender-affirming care protections this year, so that …

North Dakota limits bathroom use for transgender people
1 year, 7 months ago

North Dakota limits bathroom use for transgender people

Associated Press  

Transgender kids and adults in North Dakota won’t be able to access bathrooms, locker rooms or showers that match the gender they identify with in places like college dorms or jails, under a new law signed by Republican Gov. Last week, the governor signed a bill that restricts transgender health care in the state, immediately making it a crime to …

North Dakota advances suite of restrictions on trans rights
1 year, 8 months ago

North Dakota advances suite of restrictions on trans rights

Associated Press  

The North Dakota Senate has passed a series of bills that would restrict transgender people’s rights in sports, health care, schools, workplaces and daily life. Doctors would be prohibited from providing gender-affirming care to people under 18, and transgender girls and women wouldn’t be allowed to join female sports teams in K-12 and college, under bills that passed with veto-proof …

Arkansas restricts school bathroom use by transgender people
1 year, 9 months ago

Arkansas restricts school bathroom use by transgender people

Associated Press  

Sarah Huckabee Sanders on Tuesday signed a law prohibiting transgender people at public schools from using the restroom that matches their gender identity, the first of several states expected to enact such bans this year amid a flood of bills nationwide targeting the trans community. The bill signed by the Republican governor makes Arkansas the fourth state to place such …

Arkansas restricts school bathroom use by transgender people
1 year, 9 months ago

Arkansas restricts school bathroom use by transgender people

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Sarah Huckabee Sanders on Tuesday signed a law prohibiting …

Advocates Say Montana Bill Would Erase Trans And Nonbinary Identities
1 year, 9 months ago

Advocates Say Montana Bill Would Erase Trans And Nonbinary Identities

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING Republicans in Montana are moving forward with legislation that advocates say would effectively eliminate the legal existence of trans, nonbinary, two-spirit and intersex people in the state by codifying the definition of sex to be based on a person’s reproductive system. Introduced in late February by Montana state Sen. Carl Glimm and passed via an initial vote …

Iowa lawmakers send school bathroom bill to governor
1 year, 9 months ago

Iowa lawmakers send school bathroom bill to governor

Associated Press  

DES MOINES, Iowa — Transgender students won’t be allowed to use a public school restroom in Iowa that aligns with their gender identity under a bill that Republican Gov. Republican Rep. Steven Holt said the bill “applies to everyone equally.” Holt said children have long used different restrooms based on biological and physiological characteristics and this tradition should continue. “Forcing …

Arkansas Senate OKs bathroom bill that critics call extreme
1 year, 9 months ago

Arkansas Senate OKs bathroom bill that critics call extreme

Associated Press  

— A bill that would criminalize transgender people using restrooms that match their gender identity won initial approval in the Arkansas Legislature on Tuesday, introducing a restriction critics said would be the most extreme in the country. Republican Sen. John Payton, the Arkansas bill’s sponsor, called the measure narrowly crafted since it would only apply when minors are present and …

Utah bans gender-affirming healthcare for transgender minors
1 year, 10 months ago

Utah bans gender-affirming healthcare for transgender minors

The Independent  

The latest headlines from our reporters across the US sent straight to your inbox each weekday Your briefing on the latest headlines from across the US Your briefing on the latest headlines from across the US SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Gov Spencer Cox signed the ban into law …

Utah lawmakers approve ban on transgender treatments
1 year, 10 months ago

Utah lawmakers approve ban on transgender treatments

Associated Press  

SALT LAKE CITY — Utah’s Republican-dominated Legislature on Friday gave final approval for a measure that would ban youth from receiving gender-affirming health care like surgery or puberty blockers, bypassing concerns raised by opponents about the measure’s impact on transgender children and teens in the state. Utah’s measure prohibits transgender surgery for youth and disallows hormone treatments for minors who …

Bill to ban care for transgender minors gets heated hearing
1 year, 10 months ago

Bill to ban care for transgender minors gets heated hearing

Associated Press  

— A proposed bill to deny gender-affirming care to young transgender people in Montana drew emotional testimony Friday. The bill by Republican Sen. John Fuller threatens health care providers with the loss of their licenses for a year if they use puberty blockers, hormones or surgery to treat transgender minors. Ren Zaluski rejected the “fad” argument, noting “there was a …

Transgender youth reemerge as statehouse focal point in Utah
1 year, 11 months ago

Transgender youth reemerge as statehouse focal point in Utah

Associated Press  

SALT LAKE CITY — Utah lawmakers wasted no time this week before returning to an issue that has become a popular topic in GOP-led statehouses: Trying to limit medical options doctors are allowed to provide transgender youth. State Sen. Mike Kennedy, a Republican family doctor sponsoring Utah’s proposal, said it didn’t make sense that health care policy related to gender …

States target transgender health care in first bills of 2023
1 year, 11 months ago

States target transgender health care in first bills of 2023

Associated Press  

After a midterm election and record flow of anti-transgender legislation last year, Republican state lawmakers this year are zeroing in on questions of bodily autonomy with new proposals to limit gender-affirming health care and abortion access. Gender-affirming health care providers and parents of trans youths are the primary targets of these bills, many of which seek to criminalize helping a …

Utah Judge Reverses Law Banning Transgender Kids From Sports
2 years, 4 months ago

Utah Judge Reverses Law Banning Transgender Kids From Sports

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING SALT LAKE CITY — Transgender girls in Utah will be given the opportunity to participate in female sports as the school year begins after a judge on Friday reversed a ban pending legal challenges from parents. Utah state Judge Keith Kelly said in the ruling that attorneys representing the families of three transgender student-athletes who filed the …

Transgender athlete ban challenged in Utah lawsuit
2 years, 6 months ago

Transgender athlete ban challenged in Utah lawsuit

Associated Press  

SALT LAKE CITY — A ban on transgender athletes playing on girls’ sports teams is being challenged in court in Utah, one of more than a dozen states that have passed similar bans throughout the last two years. I just want to play on a team like any other kid.” For the Utah lawmakers who After observing courts strike down …

Montana not following transgender birth certificate ruling
2 years, 7 months ago

Montana not following transgender birth certificate ruling

Associated Press  

— It’s been a month since a Montana judge temporarily blocked enforcement of a state law that required transgender people to undergo surgery before they could change their gender on their birth certificate, and the state still isn’t in compliance with the court order, the ACLU of Montana said. “We have continued to be patient in allowing the state time …

Arizona governor signs bill outlawing gender-affirming care for transgender youth and approves anti-trans sports ban
2 years, 8 months ago

Arizona governor signs bill outlawing gender-affirming care for transgender youth and approves anti-trans sports ban

CNN  

Washington CNN — Republican Gov. Ducey’s approval of the health care ban, as well as a law prohibiting transgender athletes from competing on women’s and girls’ sports teams at some schools in the state, comes as GOP-led states are pushing laws that opponents say further marginalize members of the transgender community. Advocates have already vowed to challenge Arizona’s health care …

Utah bans transgender athletes in girls sports despite veto
2 years, 8 months ago

Utah bans transgender athletes in girls sports despite veto

Associated Press  

SALT LAKE CITY — GOP lawmakers in Utah pushed through a ban on transgender youth athletes playing on girls teams Friday, overriding a veto and joining 11 other states with similar laws amid a nationwide culture war. Cox was the second GOP governor this week to overrule lawmakers on a sports-participation ban, but the proposal won support from a vocal …

Utah proposes panel to decide when transgender athletes play
2 years, 10 months ago

Utah proposes panel to decide when transgender athletes play

Associated Press  

SALT LAKE CITY — Utah lawmakers advanced a proposal Monday to create a commission of political appointees to make decisions about transgender student-athletes participating in youth sports — diving into a heated debate that has taken place in dozens of Republican-led statehouses. Utah’s proposed “School Activity Eligibility Commission” would create criteria and evaluate transgender student-athletes’ physical characteristics and how they …

Utah affirms transgender right to change birth certificates
3 years, 7 months ago

Utah affirms transgender right to change birth certificates

Associated Press  

SALT LAKE CITY — The Utah Supreme Court affirmed the right of transgender people to change their sex designation on birth certificates Thursday, a ruling that came as a bright spot for advocates amid a wave of legislation targeting transgender people around the country. Every U.S. state except Tennessee allows people to change their gender markers on birth certificates, though …

No big backlash for states passing anti-transgender laws
3 years, 7 months ago

No big backlash for states passing anti-transgender laws

Associated Press  

Five states have passed laws or implemented executive orders this year limiting the ability of transgender youths to play sports or receive certain medical treatment. It’s just a matter of time.” The president of a major national LGBTQ-rights organizations, Alphonso David of the Human Rights Campaign, attributed the lack of backlash to lack of awareness about the potential harm that …

Tennessee lawmakers pass new transgender ‘bathroom bill’
3 years, 8 months ago

Tennessee lawmakers pass new transgender ‘bathroom bill’

Associated Press  

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Tennessee lawmakers have passed a bill that would put public schools and districts at risk of civil lawsuits if they let transgender students or employees use multi-person bathrooms or locker rooms that do not reflect their gender at birth. “The distinctive nature of this bill is how far it’s gotten — it’s the furthest bathroom bill to …

Transgender youth bills in US states reflect deep divisions
3 years, 11 months ago

Transgender youth bills in US states reflect deep divisions

Associated Press  

— Transgender kids would be banned from playing on school sports teams for the gender with which they identify under a GOP-backed bill that advanced Thursday in Montana, one of more than a dozen states where lawmakers are proposing restrictions on athletics or gender-confirming health care for trans minors this year. Proponents of the Montana bill say allowing transgender athletes …

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