Tag: Gender identity
Indiana businesses urge Congress to pass LGBTQ protections
INDIANAPOLIS — More than 100 Indiana businesses are urging Congress to pass legislation stalled in the Senate that would extend federal civil rights protections...
Hungary: Writers, bookstores brace for ban on LGBT content
BUDAPEST, Hungary — Some bookstores in Hungary placed notices at their entrances this week telling customers that they sell "non-traditional content.” The signs went...
Booksellers association apologizes for anti-trans mailing
NEW YORK — The American Booksellers Association is apologizing for sending a publication widely criticized as anti-transgender, Abigail Shrier's "Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze...
Judge asked to dismiss lawsuit over WVa transgender ban
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Education officials are asking a federal judge to dismiss a lawsuit challenging West Virginia’s new law that bans transgender athletes from...
European watchdog warns Hungary over possible rights abuses
BRUSSELS — Recent laws introduced in Hungary regulating marriage and gender identity risk discriminating against LGBT people and should have been put to citizens...
Semenya misses Tokyo, may be forced out of Olympics for good
CAPE TOWN, South Africa — This could be it for Caster Semenya and the Olympics.
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Arkansas governor ponders future in GOP turned Trumpian
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — Leading a state that went heavily for Donald Trump in the 2020 election and that has enacted some of the...
In Mexico, transgender politicians make strides
MEXICO CITY — Salma Luévano was arrested for publicly identifying herself as transgender in provincial Mexico in 1985. Now she is set to take...
Girl, 13, sues Florida over transgender school athletes ban
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — A 13-year-old transgender girl sued Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Wednesday over a new law that will prevent her from...