transgender rights

A South Dakota legislative committee has approved a bill championed by Gov. Kristi Noem to ban transgender women and girls from participating in school sports leagues that match their gender identity.

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A farmworker in northern New England, who is a member of two marginalized communities, is sharing a rarely heard story with NECN, aiming to open eyes to what drives some LGBTQ+ people to seek political asylum in the United States. “For as long as I can remember, I’ve known that I’ve been a man,” said Christian, through an interpreter....

Comedian Dave Chappelle said Monday he’d be willing to meet with transgender employees of Netflix who have called for the streaming platform to remove his October comedy special, “The Closer.” But Chappelle said any meeting would have to be on his terms: “You will not summon me.” “First of all, you cannot come if you have not watched my...

Camille Rey recently moved her family out of Texas after watching her transgender child’s mental health suffer in the face of proposed state laws that would restrict their medical care and access to school sports. Rey and Equality Texas CEO Ricardo Martinez explain what is at stake for trans kids in the state, and across the U.S.

Federal judges have temporarily blocked new laws in Arkansas and West Virginia restricting transgender people’s rights.

Kataluna Enriquez, who was crowned Miss Nevada USA on Sunday, will become the first openly transgender woman to compete in the Miss USA pageant.

The U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear a court case over a transgender student’s fight to use the boys’ bathroom at his high school, upholding a lower court’s finding that treating transgender students differently violates federal law banning sex discrimination in schools.

The Supreme Court has rejected a Virginia school board’s appeal to reinstate its transgender bathroom ban

One man was arrested, another man was ticketed for trespassing and a third person was hurt at a chaotic public meeting Tuesday on equity issues in Loudoun County Public Schools.

They’ve spent months in limbo, anxiously waiting to figure out how they would be able to celebrate Pride Month 2021. They could emerge from more than a year of isolation to celebrate their identities with the rest of their community, free to live as their authentic selves. Or they would have to prepare to fight for their right to simply…

Kayla Gore is the co-founder and executive director of My Sistah’s House, a Memphis-based organization that serves trans and queer people of color.

According to an analysis of company reviews by Glassdoor, LGBTQ employees are less satisfied at work compared to their non-LGBTQ counterparts.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Tuesday signed a bill banning transgender girls and women from playing on public school teams intended for student athletes born as girls. NBC 6’s Jamie Guirola reports

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The Biden administration says the government will protect gay and transgender people against sex discrimination in health care

The NCAA has reached a delicate moment: It must decide whether to punish states that have passed laws limiting the participation of transgender athletes.

“We frankly right now have more laws being proposed to oppose transgender children participating [in sports], than we have transgender children who are actually participating,” said Palm Springs, California councilmember Lisa Middleton, the first transgender person elected to a political office in the state. She and Tony Hoang of Equality California sound off with LX News.

The National Black Justice Coalition says no other year on record has seen as many anti-trans pieces of legislation compared to 2021. More than 117 bills were introduced in state legislatures this year, including some that use the word “fairness” in their titles. NBJC’s David Johns breaks down the issue for LX News.

NBCLX is looking back at the most inspiring people we profiled this year as part of NBCUniversal News Group’s Inspiring America series. The first person we are recognizing is Nicolas Talbott, who sued the federal government after former President Donald Trump banned transgender servicemembers from the military.