national/world - Sumner County fails to pass transgender book ban after fourth attempt

Craig Shoup, Katie Nixon, Angele Latham

The Tennesean

Gallatin, TN (Sumner County)

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national/world - Missing Transgender College Student Lia Smith Died by Suicide: M.E.

Joshua Rhett Miller

Newsweek

Middlebury College

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national/world - Ninth Circuit frowns at military's reasons for banning transgender service members

Edvard Pettersson

Courthouse News Service

Ninth Circuit appellate

Pasadena, CA

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Maryland - Maryland Joins States In Legal Filing Concerning Federal DEI And Transgender Funding Rules

Anthony G. Brown

The Baynet

Annapolis, MD

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national/world - Supreme Court to decide if states may ban attempts to ‘convert’ gay and transgender youth

John Fritze

CNN

SCOTUS (female justices)

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New York - Trump administration cancels NYC magnet school funding over transgender student policies

Alex Zimmerman

Chalkbeat

Bayard Rustin Educational Complex

New York City, NY

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national/world - Trump asks the Supreme Court to allow him to enforce transgender and nonbinary passport policy

Lindsay Whitehurst

AP

White House

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ezs note:  F*** you, Trump!!!

national/world - Few Mass Shooters Have Been Transgender

Ashley Wang

Factcheck.org

mass shootings in US

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national/world - Report: Minnesota has highest share of adults who identify as transgender in U.S.

Nina Moini, Aleesa Kuznetsov

MPR

Brownsville, MN (r)

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Maryland - DHS plans to deport transgender Brazilian woman arrested in Md.

Michael K. Lavers

Washington Blade

Silver Spring, MD

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national/world - More than 2.8 million Americans identify as transgender, report finds

Joe Kottke

NBC News

UCLA School of Law

Los Angeles, CA

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Idaho - A disputed transgender bathroom law is intact — at Boise High and beyond

Kevin Richert

Idaho Ed News

Boise High School

Boise, ID

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Tennessee - The Transgender Road to Tennessee

Roseann Foley Henry

Psychology Today

Eagleville, TN (r)

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national/world - Transgender military members fight to continue serving despite Trump’s ban

Dan Ming

PBS

Fort Bragg

(near Fayetteville, NC)

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national/world - Transgender asylum seeker released from ICE custody after order from federal judge

Press/AP

ABC News

Tacoma, WA

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