Iowa Lawmakers Pass Bill to Eliminate Transgender Civil Rights Protections
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Iowa Lawmakers Pass Bill to Eliminate Transgender Civil Rights Protections

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Iowa lawmakers overwhelmingly passed a bill on Thursday that would end state civil rights protections for transgender people. Advocates for L.G.B.T.Q. rights said that Iowa would become the first state to remove such broad and explicit protections for trans people if the Republican-backed…

Meet the Trans Troops the Trump Administration Is Barring
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Meet the Trans Troops the Trump Administration Is Barring

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Officers and enlisted. Combat veterans and recent recruits. Transgender service members say their military experience has looked nothing like the portrayal of them in the political arena. Feb. 27, 2025 Sgt. First Class Julia Becraft circled up a dozen infantry soldiers at Fort…

Kansas Lawmakers Override Veto of Ban on Transition Care for Minors
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Kansas Lawmakers Override Veto of Ban on Transition Care for Minors

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines The Republican-controlled Kansas Legislature on Tuesday overrode the Democratic governor’s veto of a bill that bans gender-transition treatments for minors, fulfilling a longtime goal of conservative lawmakers and joining about half of the country’s states in enacting bans or sharp limits on those…

Trans Man Killed in New York Was Tortured for Two Months, Police Say
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Trans Man Killed in New York Was Tortured for Two Months, Police Say

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines A 24-year-old transgender man from Minnesota who had been missing since December was subjected to violence and torture before his body was found this week in a field in the Finger Lakes region of upstate New York, the authorities said. Five people were…

Trump Signs Executive Order Barring Transgender Athletes From Women’s Sports
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Trump Signs Executive Order Barring Transgender Athletes From Women’s Sports

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines President Trump signed an executive order on Wednesday aimed at prohibiting transgender women and girls from competing in women’s sports, directing agencies to withdraw federal funding for any schools that refused to comply. “From now on, women’s sports will be only for women,”…

N.Y. Attorney General Warns Hospitals Against Canceling Transgender Care
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N.Y. Attorney General Warns Hospitals Against Canceling Transgender Care

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines The New York attorney general, Letitia James, has warned New York hospitals that complying with the White House’s executive order that seeks to end gender-affirming medical care for transgender youth could well violate state law. The warning, in a letter the attorney general’s…

N.Y. Hospital Stops Treating 2 Children After Trump’s Trans Care Order
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N.Y. Hospital Stops Treating 2 Children After Trump’s Trans Care Order

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines A leading New York City hospital system has begun canceling appointments for transgender children following President Trump’s executive order threatening to withhold federal funding to hospitals that provide gender-affirming treatments, according to the children’s parents. The hospital system, NYU Langone Health, has not…

Health Officials Struggle to Comply With D.E.I. and Gender Orders
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Health Officials Struggle to Comply With D.E.I. and Gender Orders

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Federal and state health officials and staff members scrambled on Friday to comply with a 5 p.m. deadline by the Trump administration to terminate any programs that promote “gender ideology,” and to withdraw documents and any other media that may do so. Federal…

Trump Signs Order Restricting Gender-Affirming Treatments for Minors
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Trump Signs Order Restricting Gender-Affirming Treatments for Minors

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines President Trump signed an executive order on Tuesday taking steps to end gender-affirming medical treatments for children and teenagers under 19, directing agencies to take a variety of steps to curtail surgeries, hormone therapy and other regimens. The order continued to chip away…

Trump Moves Toward Pushing Openly Transgender People Out of Military
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Trump Moves Toward Pushing Openly Transgender People Out of Military

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines President Trump on Monday moved toward pushing openly transgender people out of the military, directed the Pentagon to end diversity programs and ordered the reinstatement of many service members dismissed for refusing the coronavirus vaccine as he sought to reshape America’s armed forces….