Showing posts with label gender identity. Show all posts
Showing posts with label gender identity. Show all posts
Tuesday, September 29, 2026
Trump administration reinstates sexual misconduct rule for schools - POLITICO
“While the administration is unlawfully eroding protections for trans students under the guise of ‘protecting women and girls,’ they are systematically weakening the very laws that keep students safe and schools accountable,” said Shiwali Patel, senior director of education justice at the National Women’s Law Center. “Protecting women and girls means not limiting Title IX protections based on students’ reproductive traits and anatomy and enforcing Title IX to make sure schools are inclusive spaces that provide equal educational opportunity for all students.”…
Saturday, May 2, 2026
Trump administration report accuses Biden of anti-Christian bias - POLITICO
The report accused Biden’s Education Department of focusing its enforcement actions against Christian universities, but it did not mention President Donald Trump’s ties to these schools or that some of these efforts started during the first Trump administration...
Friday, April 24, 2026
Trump’s FCC weighs whether to flag shows with trans or non-binary ‘programming’
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is launching a new inquiry into the TV ratings system, including whether content related to gender identity is not adequately flagged for parents, in the latest warning shot to broadcasters from the agency headed by the Trump loyalist Brendan Carr...
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2026/apr/22/trump-fcc-inquiry-gender-identity-tv-shows
Friday, March 27, 2026
Trump’s Minions Have Quietly Disappeared Most Federal Data on Gender Identity – Mother Jones
These change have affected "really critical programs like the 988 suicide and crisis lifeline or data collections about runaway and homeless youth," Klein says. These have been among the removals that, over the past year, have garnered widespread concern because trans people are known to experience higher rates of suicide and homelessness than others—crises that have grown worse as a result of the administration's anti-trans policies and rhetoric.
"Without the data, disparities don't just magically disappear, but they do become more difficult to document and address," says Caroline Medina, a senior advisor for data policy at the Movement Advancement Project (MAP)…
Friday, March 13, 2026
Michigan Board of Education rejects resolution on ending gender identity lessons in schools
A Republican-led resolution to end instruction about gender identity and require that parents be informed about issues around gender transition in Michigan public schools was rejected by the Michigan's State Board of Education Tuesday...
Sunday, September 28, 2025
US refuses to back UN declaration on noncommunicable diseases | United Nations | The Guardian
Addressing the assembly, Kennedy said: "We cannot accept language that pushes destructive gender ideology. Neither can we accept claims of a constitutional or international right to abortion. [The declaration] exceeds the UN's proper role while ignoring the most pressing health issues, and that's why the United States will reject it."
There is no mention of reproductive rights or gender in the declaration except in reference to specific challenges facing women.
Despite the US's stance, the declaration is expected to be agreed on in the coming weeks. Katie Dain, the chief executive of the NCD Alliance, an NGO, said: "The unity we saw today proves that most governments are ready to take the baton on NCDs."…
Saturday, August 16, 2025
What happened to me at Buffalo Wild Wings was wrong. That’s why I’m speaking out.
I'm used to being stared at or whispered about in bathrooms and other spaces. It has happened more times than I can count. But this was different...
Friday, January 24, 2025
Rubio instructs staff to freeze passport applications with ‘X’ sex markers | Trump administration | The Guardian
"The policy of the United States is that an individual's sex is not changeable," the email read...
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/23/trump-rubio-x-gender-passport
Monday, January 20, 2025
Wednesday, May 8, 2024
Florida sues Biden administration over new transgender healthcare rule | Reuters
The lawsuit by Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody and the Catholic Medical Association (CMA), filed in federal court in Tampa, takes aim at a new rule published by the U.S. Department of Health and Services (HHS) on Monday that would ban discrimination in healthcare on the basis of gender identity…
Saturday, March 23, 2024
What is ‘sex’? What is ‘gender’? How these terms changed and why states now want to define them - PolitiFact
Although they're sometimes used synonymously, "sex" and "gender" have different meanings to medical professionals. Sex traditionally refers to one's biological characteristics, whereas gender is how a person identifies…
Friday, March 15, 2024
Arkansas rolls back gender-neutral ID policy - ABC News
Residents who wish to change genders on drivers licenses and state identification documents will need to have the gender as indicated on an original or amended birth certificate…
The move was criticized by the ACLU of Arkansas, which argued in a statement that the policy threatens "the safety and dignity of transgender, nonbinary, and intersex Arkansans."…
Tuesday, March 12, 2024
Florida Settlement Clarifies Reach of ‘Don’t Say Gay’ Law - The New York Times
The settlement says that students and teachers are allowed to talk about sexual identity and gender orientation in public schools, as long as it is not part of formal classroom instruction...
Friday, March 8, 2024
Student sues Fairfax, Va. schools over transgender policy - The Washington Post
The lawsuit was filed by the conservative group America First Legal — founded by former Donald Trump adviser Stephen Miller — on behalf of an unnamed Fairfax high school senior. It alleges that the school district's policy, which allows students to use facilities that match their gender identity and requires the use of a students chosen pronouns and name, are "fundamentally at odds with her religious beliefs" as a practicing Roman Catholic...
Tuesday, December 5, 2023
Why Montana’s Two-Spirit people are challenging a state law that defines sex as binary | CNN
As they fight to reclaim their history, some in Montana's Two-Spirit community are challenging a state law that defines sex as binary because it "infringes" on their spiritual and cultural beliefs...
Friday, August 11, 2023
Florida says it doesn’t want indoctrination in schools — but look at the materials it just approved - The Washington Post
The materials include videos, magazines and books that in some cases disparage the Black Lives Matter movement, deny that police unfairly target Blacks, question the impact of human use of fossil fuels on the environment, and call out "climate alarmism." There are videos on "How to Embrace Your Femininity" and "How to Embrace Your Masculinity," one on "How to Be a Rational Patriot" that says the United States was founded on "Judeo-Christian values," and one under the categories of "Life Lessons and "Judeo-Christian values" called "How to Learn to Forgive." Topics covered under the PragerU Kids banner are divided into categories for grades K-2, 3-5 and 6 and higher and are wide-ranging, including financial literacy, history, civics, character development and life lessons...
Thursday, August 10, 2023
Boy Problems – Mother Jones
Jordan Peterson, the Canadian psychologist whose lectures pack concert halls around the world, was the first to find fame for speaking to a generation of lost boys. In 2016, he went viral for pushing back against legislation in Canada requiring teachers to adhere to a student's preferred gender pronouns. Peterson told people like Mark to stiffen up but also that it was not their fault. He said men have long been stifled by a world that is set up for women to succeed at their expense. He had lectures that might deconstruct episodes of The Simpsons or expound on the psychology of Pinocchio. Then, he would explain that feminism is part of "the murderous equity doctrine," or that white privilege was a "Marxist lie."
If Tate has been the brawn, then Peterson parades as the brain: A former professor who specializes in the works of Carl Jung, Peterson conceals bigotry in pseudo-intellectual digressions. "There's this whole narrative that masculinity is being attacked. And these guys are the heroes of it," said Mark, during a phone conversation we had in July...
This has given some politicians an opportunity. Reclaiming a mythology of manhood has become an important project for the nascent populist right. Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) has been the most prominent politician to take on masculinity.
"The loss of high paying, blue collar work for men has been a catastrophe for this nation and for men," writes Hawley in his book Manhood: The Masculine Virtues America Needs, "robbing them of employment, family, dignity and hope." In Hawley's vision of gender, men can only find their purpose in the old breadwinner role, which is why he opposes a welfare state. "If government can supply everything a father or husband once did by working," he writes, "what is the point of manhood? The culture of dependence destroys men's agency and their sense of self-worth."…
Saturday, August 5, 2023
Florida tells schools AP Psychology course with LGBTQ+ content violates law | Florida | The Guardian
Florida has told school superintendents that the Advanced Placement psychology course offered to high school students violates the state's new law prohibiting instruction on sexual orientation and gender identity, effectively banning the class, the non-profit that develops the courses said on Thursday...
Saturday, July 8, 2023
Nonbinary genders beyond 'male' and 'female' would have been no surprise to ancient rabbis, who acknowledged tumtums, androgynos and aylonot
Rabbinic literature, the body of texts written by Jewish leaders in antiquity, includes several other categories. In these texts, a person with both sets of external genitalia is called an "androgynos," a term borrowed from Greek. A person with neither is called a "tumtum," and a person who loses his male sexual organs is called a "saris." There is also a term for someone whose sex assigned at birth is female but does not develop to female sexual maturity – in some cases, because they develop "male" traits: an "aylonit."…
Friday, July 7, 2023
Moms for Liberty is part of a long history of rightwing mothers’ activism in the US
As the group has grown, so too have its political ambitions. Moms for Liberty places particular emphasis on capturing local school boards in order to secure greater control over school policy. More broadly, the group endorses legislation that would limit the topics that can be discussed in the classroom (for instance, Florida's so-called "Don't Say Gay" legislation), and they promote policies that allow parents to target books for removal from school libraries and classrooms.
The materials challenged by Moms for Liberty reflect the "war on wokeness" announced by conservative figures such as Tucker Carlson and Ron DeSantis. Group members regularly disrupt school board meetings to rail against books that address the nation's history of racial violence (maligned under the fuzzy category of "critical race theory"). Likewise, the group condemns materials that explore gender identity or advocate for LGBTQ+ acceptance – particularly those that explore transgender identity. Librarians, teachers and parents who defend these materials have been repeatedly harassed by group members as "groomers" or "pedophile sympathizers"...
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