ACLU Sues Catholic Hospital for Not Performing Transgender Surgery
A transgender individual whose hysterectomy surgery was canceled by a Catholic hospital due to religious objections sued the medical institution last week, alleging discrimination and violations of constitutionally protected rights. Jesse Hammons, who was born female but identifies as male, was scheduled to undergo a hysterectomy in January. Yet one week prior to the surgery, […]
US Dept. of Justice Agrees It Is Not Fair for Males Who Identify as Female to Compete in Girls’ Sports
The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) has filed a Statement of Interest in a case involving three female high school track athletes who sued the Connecticut Interscholastic Athletic Conference (CIAC) and other entities over a policy allowing students to compete in sports in accordance with their stated “gender identity.” “Title IX and its implementing regulations […]
Georgia Republican introduces bill to make child transgender surgeries, drugs illegal
Georgia Republican State Representative Ginny Ehrhart introduced a bill in the Georgia House of Representatives last week that would ban health care professionals from performing transgender surgeries on children. The bill specifies criminal penalties for medical professionals who perform surgeries such as mastectomies, vaginoplasties, castration, penectomies, etc. “for the purpose of attempting to affirm the […]
Alabama Senate passes ban on puberty blockers, hormones, surgeries used to gender-transition youth
The Alabama Senate passed a bill barring the experimental medicalized gender-transition of youth, including puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and body-altering surgeries. Following a successful committee vote last week, the state senate passed legislation criminalizing the act of prescribing opposite sex hormones and drugs used to arrest puberty to youth under the age of 19, AL.com […]
EDUCATION Gender-neutral bathroom closed following ‘isolated’ incident
A Wisconsin public school has closed its gender-neutral bathroom after an 18-year-old male student was arrested for fourth-degree sexual assault and child enticement. Austin Sauer allegedly exposed himself to a child in the bathroom at Rhinelander High School, according to the Oneida County Sheriff’s Office. A spokesperson for the sheriff’s office told WSAW.com that the school didn’t […]
Teacher Forces 7th Graders To Do Trans Homework
A government school in California is under fire from parents and children after a 7th grade “English” teacher forced young students, mostly about 13-years old, to do a “Literary Analysis” on a story about a “transgender” make-up artist and his so-called “transition.” The controversial assignment, which was still online on the school district’s website as […]
Starbucks UK partners with LGBTQ charity that helps trans kids find hormone treatments
Starbucks U.K. is launching a partnership with a charity that advises transgender children on gender dysphoria, including, but not limited to, locating access to hormone treatments. The charity also connects children and their parents with resources to help determine what resources they may need should they decide to transition. Starbucks will sell “mermaid tail cookies” […]
Woman who wants to transition 7-year-old son loses second court case
A Texas woman who wants to transition her 7-year-old son into a girl has been defeated in a second court hearing. Dr Anne Georgulas, a pediatrician, believes her son, James, has gender dysphoria and wants to be a girl named Luna. Last October, a jury awarded Dr Georgulas sole managing guardianship of James, making it possible […]
Democrats want to block a law that would ban sex change operations for children in Florida
Meanwhile, Jon Harris Maurer, a policy director with Equality Florida, an LGBTQ activist group, described Sabatini’s bill and its Senate version as “a clear attack on some of our state’s most vulnerable youth.” Children with gender identity issues are certainly vulnerable, but not in the way Harris suggests. Florida State Rep. Anthony Sabatini (R-Lakeland) was […]
A very LGBTQ decade: Gay marriage, trans rights and a ‘rainbow wave’
At the dawn of the year 2010, few Americans could predict that the coming decade would revolutionize the legal and cultural landscape for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer people. After all, it was only in 2003 that homosexuality was decriminalized across the country, thanks to a landmark Supreme Court ruling. Over the past 10 […]