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Former Olympian Caitlyn Jenner backs New York county's ban on transgender female athletes
Olympic gold medalist Caitlyn Jenner on Monday said she supported a local New York official’s order banning female sports teams with transgender athletes from using county-owned facilities.
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Transgender veterans sue to have gender-affirming surgery covered by VA
A group of transgender veterans filed a lawsuit Thursday seeking to force the Department of Veterans Affairs to begin providing and paying for gender-affirming surgeries. The lawsuit from the Transgender American Veterans Association seeks to compel the VA to codify in its regulations verbal assurances the department has made that it would begin providing those services, said Rebekka Eshler, the…
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LGBTQ+ Community Rallies Against Restrictive Laws Being Passed Across the Country
On this International Transgender Day of Visibility, members of the LGBTQ+ community are making sure they are seen with a rally in downtown New Haven. “I’m gonna be loud,” Dixie, a drag queen from Milford, said. “Love is Love” is the message from drag queens, transgender men and women, and LGBTQ+ allies at the demonstration. They marched from the...
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Over 200,000 Trans People Could Face Voting Restrictions Because of State ID Laws
Transgender people often have to vote with IDs that don’t represent who they are or not vote at all while they navigate the complicated process to update their IDs.