Girls' high school sports participation has increased more than 1,000% since, according to the National Center for Education Statistics. Collegiate sport participation jumped more than 500%.
Someone in your life has struggled with their sexuality and identity. And it is dangerous for queer youth to grow up with people in authority viewing them as damaged, or as a threat.
It's a potential bright spot for Democrats heading into the Nov. 8 midterm elections, when Republicans are broadly favored to win a majority of at least one chamber in Congress.
The draft's legal reasoning, if adopted by the court when it issues its eventual ruling by the end of June, could threaten other rights that Americans take for granted in their personal lives.
In October, it issued the first American passport with an "X" gender marker, designed to give nonbinary, intersex and gender-nonconforming people a marker other than male or female on their travel document.
Republican governors in Utah and Indiana this week rejected legislation banning transgender athletes from competing in girls' sports, pushing back against a rising tide of similar Republican-sponsored legislation nationwide.
From the column: Today, March 15, is Equal Pay Day 2022, "the date (when) a woman who works full-time all year round has to work in order to get paid the same amount a man did the previous year."
Recent research from a nationwide survey published in 2018 delineates transgender and gender nonconforming (hereby TGNC) individuals may experience social ostracism, discrimination, family rejection, poverty, homelessness and violence at an elevated rate compared to their cisgender counterparts.
February 19, 2022 11:00 AM
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By Nesreen Jaber, Shaylah Anderson, Kim Tom and Anna Nguyen, Grand Forks
School board members across the United States have endured a rash of terroristic threats and hostile messages ignited by roiling controversies over policies on curtailing the coronavirus, bathroom access for transgender students and the teaching of America’s racial history.
February 15, 2022 09:31 AM
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By Gabriella Borter, Joseph Ax and Joseph Tanfani / Reuters
