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The US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit ruled on Tuesday that West Virginia’s ban on transgender girls competing on girls’ sports teams violates a transgender student’s rights under Title IX. The law, which is known as the “Save Women’s Sports Act,” prohibits individuals who were assigned male at birth from competing on girls’ [...]

LGBTQ rights group Lambda Legal announced a lawsuit Monday seeking to block enforcement of a Louisiana ban on gender-affirming procedures for transgender youth. The civil rights organization prepared the lawsuit, along with the Center for Health Law & Policy Innovation of Harvard Law and a Louisiana law firm, on behalf of five Louisiana minors and [...]

The US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit ruled on Saturday in favor of Tennessee, removing a temporary injunction placed on a Tennessee law banning gender-affirming healthcare for minors, including hormones and puberty blockers. This ruling will allow the ban to be in effect immediately, despite ongoing litigation. Chief Judge Jeffrey Sutton, writing for [...]

Montana Governor Greg Gianforte Friday signed into law a bill banning gender-affirming medical care for transgender minors in the state. Gianforte signed the bill, the Youth Health Protection Act, after the legislature banned Montana lawmaker Zooey Zephyr from the floor for speaking out against it. The Youth Health Protection Act claims to “enhance the protection [...]

The Texas Supreme Court Friday ruled that state agencies in Texas may investigate gender affirming care as child abuse but that the Department of Family and Protective Services (DFPS) is not bound to undertake any such investigations. On February 18, Attorney General Ken Paxton issued an opinion stating that many forms of gender affirming care [...]

US District Judge Leonie Brinkema of the Eastern District of Virginia Wednesday ordered the US military to stop restricting HIV-positive service members from advancing in their careers.  Under the current military policy, individuals with HIV are prohibited from enlisting or being deployed overseas. This policy has faced criticism from a variety of sources. In 2018, [...]

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis Monday signed into law the controversial Parental Rights in Education Bill, commonly referred to as the “Don’t Say Gay” bill. The bill, approved by the Senate earlier this month, restricts “lassroom instruction by school personnel or third parties on sexual orientation or gender identity” for students in kindergarten through third grade [...]

The Third Texas Court of Appeals Monday reinstated an injunction to stop the state from proceeding with an investigation into the parents of a transgender teenager. On February 22, Texas Governor Greg Abbott directed state health agencies to investigate the medical treatment of transgender youth as “child abuse.” The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), the ACLU of [...]

Travis County Judge Amy Clark Meachum granted an injunction Friday in Doe v. Abbott, preventing Texas from investigating the parents of a transgender teenager. The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and Lambda Legal filed a lawsuit on March 1, 2022 to challenge a directive from Governor Greg Abbott ordering the Texas Department of Family and [...]

A judge in Travis County, Texas, has issued a temporary restraining order blocking the Department of Family and Protective Services (DFPS) from investigating the family of a transgender youth who filed a lawsuit earlier this week. The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), the ACLU of Texas and Lambda Legal filed the lawsuit Tuesday after Texas [...]