Showing posts with label bathroom. Show all posts
Showing posts with label bathroom. Show all posts

Wednesday, July 16, 2025

Transgender bathroom bill added to Texas flood-relief special session

In addition to considering bills that would restrict hemp products, Abbott has also asked lawmakers to consider legislation "further protecting unborn children and their mothers from the harm of abortion" and legislation "protecting women's privacy in sex-segregated spaces."…

https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-politics-and-policy/transgender-bathroom-bill-added-texas-flood-relief-special-session-rcna218897 


 

Tuesday, November 26, 2024

Congresswoman says GOP attack on trans rights is ‘attempt to misdirect’ voters

"Every single time we hear them say the word 'trans', look at what they're doing with their right hand. Look at what they're doing to pick the pocket of American workers, to fleece seniors by privatizing social security and Medicare. Look at what they're doing, undermining workers." 

"Every bit of time and energy that has been used to divert the attention of the federal government to go after trans people is time and energy that is not focused upon addressing the cost of living for our constituents, and we have to be clear that there is a real cost to the American worker every time they focus on this."

Saturday, November 23, 2024

Ocasio-Cortez criticizes GOP's transgender restroom ban

"What Nancy Mace and what Speaker Johnson are doing are endangering all women and girls," Ocasio-Cortez told reporters late Wednesday. "Because if you ask them, 'What is your plan on how to enforce this?' they won't come up with an answer. And what it inevitably results in are women and girls who are primed for assault because people are gonna want to check their private parts in suspecting who is trans and who is cis and who's doing what."

Thursday, November 21, 2024

House Republicans’ troubling new anti-trans bathroom policy, explained | Vox

A 2018 UCLA study on the issue found no evidence that trans people using bathrooms that match their gender identity has increased safety risks, but that data has not changed GOP rhetoric. Instead, the GOP has kept investing in anti-trans attacks and channeling more harm toward trans individuals, who are already the disproportionate subjects of violence and who already experience high rates of self-harm...


Wednesday, January 17, 2024

US Supreme Court sidesteps fight over transgender student bathroom access | Reuters

In the Indiana case, A.C. is a transgender boy who was a seventh grade student in 2021 when his mother brought a lawsuit on his behalf against the school district and his school's principal. A.C. sought unspecified money damages and a court order to be allowed to use bathrooms for males. 

U.S. District Judge Tanya Pratt in 2022 ruled in favor of A.C., ordering the school to allow bathroom access corresponding with the student's gender identity. The 7th Circuit affirmed Pratt's ruling, prompting the school's appeal to the Supreme Court, which has a 6-3 conservative majority...

Thursday, August 19, 2021

Monday, July 12, 2021

‘Not welcome’: Advocates slam Tennessee law requiring transgender bathroom signs

"Gov. Lee and Tennessee lawmakers are determined to discriminate against the transgender community and roll back the clock on equality instead of focusing on real problems facing Tennesseans," he said in a statement...

Tuesday, June 6, 2017

Appeals court sides with transgender student in bathroom fight

The Chicago-based 7th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Tuesday that a transgender student has the right to use the bathroom that corresponds with his gender identity under federal law....
http://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/335675-appeals-court-sides-with-transgender-student-in-bathroom-fight


Saturday, May 20, 2017








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