The Department of Justice released a memo under the Trump administration that threatens to roll back key protections for transgender and intersex people under the Prison Rape Elimination Act, potentially putting them at increased risk of sexual assault in federal prisons, jails, and youth facilities.
LeAnne Withdrow, a civilian employee of the Illinois National Guard, has filed a class-action lawsuit challenging a Trump-Vance administration policy that blocks intersex and transgender federal employees from using bathrooms aligned with their affirmed gender, arguing that it violates Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
Governor Gavin Newsom has signed two bills by Senator Scott Wiener, SB 59 and SB 497, expanding California’s legal and privacy protections for transgender people and reinforcing the state’s commitment to serve as a refuge for transgender individuals seeking safety, privacy, and access to medical care.
California Attorney General Rob Bonta has co-led a coalition of 17 attorneys general in filing an amicus brief urging the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals to uphold a lower court’s injunction blocking Trump administration executive orders that seek to eliminate federal programs promoting diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility (DEIA).
The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to hear the case of a Massachusetts middle school student who challenged his school’s decision to prohibit him from wearing a T-shirt that read, “There are only two genders,” while a related case in Maryland is seeking the right to opt their children out of reading LGBTQ-themed books in elementary school classrooms.
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