national/world - Acting head of civil rights agency defends decisions undercutting transgender workers

Alexandra Olson, Claire Savage

Federal News Network

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Department of Labor

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national/world - Judge says Trump administration must provide hormone therapy, accommodations to transgender inmates

Melissa Quinn

CBS News

Washington DC

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ezs note:  It's forgivable to skim this over, but check this out - Judge Royce Lamberth was nominated by President Ronald Reagan!!!  Damn hippie!!! 😂

national/world - Supreme Court upholds Trump's ban on transgender military members while appeals continue

Nina Totenberg, Christina Gatti

NPR

SCOTUS

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national/world - Health care for transgender children questioned in 400-page Trump administration report

Selena Simmons-Duffin

NPR

government report (not same)

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ezs note:  This from the helmetheaded dunce...

national/world - Trump is working to restrict trans rights. That’s not what Americans want.

Jasmine Mithani

The 19th*

Washington Monument, nearing completion

(ca. 1884)

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100 Days of Chaos/The Lincoln Project (video)

 

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national/world - EEOC instructs staff to sideline all new transgender discrimination cases, employees say

Claire Savage

AP

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LIVE: Cory Booker sets record for longest Senate floor speech (video)

 

national/world - Elon Musk Goes On Transphobic Rant The Same Day His Estranged Daughter Speaks Out

Paige Skinner

Huffpost

Elon Musk, perfectly normal (!)

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national/world - Federal judge blocks Trump effort to ban transgender troops from military service

Elena Moore

NPR

Grumpy, Donald?  😂

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Washington (state) - Mead School District calls for federal investigation over clash with Washington's transgender policies

Rob King 

KXLY

Mead, WA

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ezs note:  Oh, don't worry. I'm sure Der Fuëhrer will help you out.  😒

national/world - VA rescinds transgender veterans' health guidance as department denies policy change

Huo Jingman

NPR

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Washington DC

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ezs note:  Glad you served.  Oh, you're transgender?  Well, f*** you.

national/world - DOGE mischaracterizes a study as transgender, and USDA cancels it

Dan Ruetenik

CBS News

Jamie L. Whitten Department of Agriculture

Washington DC

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national/world - Trans women transferred to men’s prisons despite rulings against Trump’s order

Kaley Johnson, Sam Levin

The Guardian

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(houses Federal Bureau of Prisons)

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national/world - All the ways Trump wants to exclude trans people from public life

Orion Rummler, Kate Sosin

The 19th

transgender protest

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national/world - Fact-checking Trump’s anti-transgender comments in his address to Congress

Jo Yurcaba

NBC News

obviously transgender (!)

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national/world - US threatens permanent visa bans on trans athletes based on sex markers

Joseph Gedeon

The Guardian

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Washington DC

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ezs note:  Connecticut, can we follow Maine's lead?  Please?

national/world - Civil and Human Rights Organizations Sue Trump Administration Over Executive Orders Banning Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, Accessibility and Erasing Transgender People

Staff

Legal Defense Fund

Washington DC

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national/world - 'Unadulterated animus': Judge blasts DOJ about transgender military restrictions

Peter Charalambous, Tesfaye Negussie

ABC News

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national/world - EEOC seeks to drop transgender discrimination cases, citing Trump's executive order

Staff

CBS News

Washington DC

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