New Hampshire State

Two transgender teenagers and their families filed a lawsuit Friday against New Hampshire education officials over a new state law prohibiting them from competing on girls’ sports teams at their public high schools.

Transgender teens sue New Hampshire officials over new state law prohibiting them from competing on girls’ sports teams

Fox News

The Supreme Court voted 5-4 Friday to reject a Biden administration request to enforce changes to Title IX that many argued would allow biological men to participate in women's sports.

Supreme Court strikes down Biden-Harris Title IX change that some argued would allow men in women's sports

CONCORD, N.H. -- A federal judge temporarily cleared the way Monday for a transgender girl to play soccer for her high school team while she and another student challenge a New Hampshire ban. The families of Parker Tirrell, 15, and Iris Turmelle, 14, filed a lawsuit Friday seeking to overturn...

Judge allows transgender New Hampshire girl to play soccer as lawsuit challenges new law

Maine State

Massachusetts State

The Massachusetts Parentage Act redefines who is considered a parent to expand protections for LGBTQ families. Critics say the bill will hurt children.

Massachusetts bill redefining parenthood, stripping away 'mother,' 'father,' could soon be state law

Florida State

NewsRadio WFLA

The Florida law banning minors from being prescribed puberty blockers and hormonal treatments is being enforced again this morning after a federal appeals court's decision.

Federal Appeals Court Allows Transgender Health Ban To Move Forward

Texas State

A Trump-appointed federal judge in Texas ruled against a majority of the claims brought by a student who filed a lawsuit accusing school officials of racial and gender discrimination after he was punished because of his hairstyle. As previously reported by Face2Face Africa, Darryl George, 18, has been embroiled in...

Texas judge rules against Black teen who sued after being punished because of his hairstyle

Virginia State

Sweet Briar, VA

New York Post

Sweet Briar College in Virginia has instituted an admissions policy that bars transgender women next school year, making the school an outlier among the nation’s diminishing number of women’s colleges.

The private women’s liberal arts school said the policy stems from the legally binding will of its founder, Indiana Fletcher Williams, who died in 1900. Sweet Briar’s leadership said the document requires it to “be a place of ‘girls and young women.’”

The phrase “must be interpreted as it was understood at the time the Will was written,” Sweet Briar’s president and board chair wrote in a letter earlier this month to the...

Women’s college in Virginia bars transgender students based on founder’s will from 1900

Missouri State

Saint Louis, MO

A Life Time gym in St. Louis, Missouri, is facing an investigation from the state's attorney general over its alleged transgender inclusion policies.

Gym allegedly allowing biological male into women's locker room faces criminal probe from Missouri AG

Idaho State

Idaho Gov. Brad Little elaborated Friday on his new executive order to protect women's sports in an exclusive interview with Fox News Digital.

GOP governor reveals why he ordered schools to bar transgender athletes from girls sports

Washington, DC

HuffPost

“There’s no such thing as a transgender child,” the far-right group’s co-founder told HuffPost at a convention that platformed speakers fearmongering about LGBTQ+ rights.

Moms For Liberty Goes All In On Transphobia

Minnesota State

In an interview with ABC News on Sunday, JD Vance claimed that Minnesota Governor and Harris VP running mate Tim Walz signed a bill allowing the state to kidnap a transgender child if their parents did not approve of their transition. However, the bill Vance referenced actually provides refuge for transgender youth and their parents fleeing unsafe states where their care is criminalized. The legislation contains no provision allowing the state to “kidnap” children when their parents do not support their gender transition. These claims arise from an intentional misinterpretation of a provision that specifically applies to custody disputes between parents in different states.

Fact check: JD Vance falsely claims Tim Walz signed bill to let Minnesota 'kidnap kids' and 'trans them'

NBC News

Transgender people in Texas can no longer change the genders on their state-issued IDs or driver's licenses, officials confirmed Thursday. The Texas Department of Public Safety has stopped accepting court orders for the purpose of changing gender markers on driver's licenses, a department spokesperson said in an email. The statement...

Transgender people in Texas blocked from changing gender on state IDs

Quitman, MS

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Clarke County, MS

Mississippi News Group

Written with artificial intelligence assistance. Memory Smith, a former bookkeeper for Quitman High School, has been charged with embezzlement following an investigation by the State Auditor’s office.

Former High School Bookkeeper Charged with Embezzlement in Clarke County

Sagadahoc County, ME

Lewiston, ME

The Maine Monitor

Editor’s note: This story contains references to suicide. When a bill to strengthen Maine’s yellow flag law went into effect earlier this month, Sagadahoc County Sheriff Joel Merry said he felt a sense of relief.

Law enforcement officers can now get a warrant to take someone into protective custody

A retired teacher was sentenced on Wednesday to five years in prison for threatening in obscenity-filled voicemails to harm a federal judge in Florida who had rejected a challenge to the state’s so-called “don’t say gay” law restricting classroom discussion of sexual orientation and gender identity.

Ex-teacher gets 5 years in prison for threatening Florida judge in LGBTQ case

Montana State

The Associated Press

HELENA, Mont. (AP) — Montana’s Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that minors don’t need their parents’ permission to get an abortion in the state – agreeing with a lower court ruling that found the parental consent law violates the privacy clause in the state constitution. “We...

Montana Supreme Court rules minors don’t need parental permission for abortion

The Guardian

GOP lawmakers have made the state hostile for trans youth. These teens and their parents vow to ‘assert themselves’

‘Legislators don’t see me as human’: Missouri trans youth fight to survive anti-LGBTQ+ bills

PARIS — Zakia Khudadadi made history on Thursday at the Paris Paralympics by becoming the first athlete from the Refugee Paralympic Team to win a medal. Khudadadi won bronze in the women’s 47kg category after defeating Turkey’s Ekinci Nurcihan. When the final buzzer sounded at the Grand Palais in central Paris, Khudadadi erupted in joy, throwing her helmet and mouthpiece into the air.

Parataekwondo athlete Zakia Khudadadi wins first medal for the Refugee Paralympic Team

WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump lamented the growing acceptance of transgender Americans Friday in an appearance at the annual gathering of Moms for Liberty, a national nonprofit that has spearheaded efforts to get mentions of LGBTQ+ identity and structural racism out of K-12 classrooms.  Trump said transgender women should not be allowed to play in women’s sports and said access to gender-affirming health care should be restricted. He also lashed out at critics who have accused him of using Arlington National Cemetery for a campaign photo op.  But he largely stuck to his favorite topics during an hourlong “fireside chat” in Washington, where he lashed out at President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris, deplored illegal immigration and reminisced about his parents’ marriage, his path to being the reality television star of “The Apprentice” and the debate that ended Biden’s reelection campaign.  “Our country is being poisoned. And your schools and your children are suffering greatly because they’re going into the classrooms and taking disease, and they don’t even speak English,” Trump said of immigrants crossing the border illegally. “It’s crazy.”

Trump questions acceptance of transgender people as he courts his base at Moms for Liberty gathering

The incumbent attorney general has made his state unsafe for the LGBTQ+ community during his time in office.

A Republican Who Is Obsessed with Investigating Trans People Just Won A GOP Primary

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Judge extends temporary order for transgender New Hampshire girl to play soccer

CONCORD, N.H. — A federal judge extended a temporary order Tuesday for a transgender girl to play soccer for her high school team while considering arguments...

Judge extends temporary order for transgender New Hampshire girl to play soccer

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