Showing posts with label Transgender. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Transgender. Show all posts
Tuesday, April 14, 2026

Catholic Hospice Sues Over NY Standards for Care of Transgender Patients

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Last week, Dominican Sisters who operate a home that provides palliative care for indigent, terminally ill cancer patients filed suit in a N...
Monday, March 30, 2026

DOJ Investigating California and Maine for Housing Transgender Women in Women's Prisons

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Last Thursday, the Department of Justice announced that it has notified the governors of California and Maine that DOJ is initiating investi...
Monday, March 16, 2026

9th Circuit Denies En Banc Review of Spa's Policy on Transgender Women, With Unusually Controversial Dissent

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Olympus Spa v. Armstrong , (9th Cir., March 12, 2026), is the denial of a panel and en banc rehearings to two Korean Spas that lost their 1...
Monday, March 02, 2026

Supreme Court in Shadow Docket Case Rejects California's Policy on Informing Parents of Student's Gender Transition

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On Monday evening, the U.S. Supreme Court in Mirabelli v. Bonta , (Sup. Ct., March 2, 2026), barred enforcement against objecting parents of...

Lawsuit Challenges Recent Kansas Law on Sex Designation for Restrooms, Birth Certificates, Driver's Licenses

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On Feb.18, the Kansas legislature overrode Governor Laura Kelly's veto of SB 244  which requires the use of biological sex at birth to ...
Saturday, February 28, 2026

EEOC Says Federal Agencies May Base Restroom Access on Biological Sex

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 In a February 26 press release , the EEOC announced: The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) voted 2-1 today to approve a f...
Friday, February 27, 2026

9th Circuit: Anti-Transgender Comments Justify Mayor's Veto of Membership on Police Advisory Board

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In Hodges v. Gloria ,  (9th Cir., Feb. 26, 2026), the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals rejected free speech and free exercise challenges to...
Thursday, February 19, 2026

DOJ Opens Title IX Investigations of 3 Michigan School Districts

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The Department of Justice announced yesterday that it has opened Title IX investigations into three Michigan school districts. The announce...
Thursday, January 29, 2026

4th Circuit: School Gender Identity Guidelines Do Not Violate Teacher's 1st Amendment Rights

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 In Polk v. Montgomery County Public Schools ,  (4th Cir., Jan. 28, 2026), the U.S. 4th Circuit Court of Appeals, in a 2-1 decision, affirme...
Thursday, January 15, 2026

Parents Seek Emergency Order from SCOTUS Reinstating Trial Court's Voiding of School Policy on Disclosure of Students' Gender Transition

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As previously reported , last December in Mirabelli v. Bonta,  a California federal district court held unconstitutional the policy of Calif...
Monday, January 12, 2026

Supreme Court Will Hear Oral Arguments Tomorrow In Transgender Athlete Cases

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Tomorrow (Tuesday), the U.S. Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in two cases involving alleged illegal discrimination against transgende...
Wednesday, December 24, 2025

California Policy Barring School's Disclosure of Student's Change in Gender Expression Is Unconstitutional

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In Mirabelli v. Olson ,  (SD CA, Dec. 22, 2025), a California federal district court held unconstitutional the policy of California school b...
Friday, December 19, 2025

HHS Proposes Rules to Bar Hospitals from Performing Gender Affirming Care to Minors

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The Department of Health and Human Services today published in the Federal Register two Releases proposing rule changes that would effective...
Wednesday, December 10, 2025

DOJ Seeks to Intervene in Suit Over Christian Males' Reaction to Transgender Use of Boy's Locker Room

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The Justice Department this week filed a Motion to Intervene  and a Memorandum In Support of its motion in S.W. v. Loudoun County School Bo...
Saturday, December 06, 2025

HHS Replaces Label on Portrait of Former Official to Reflect Administration's Refusal to Recognize Changes in Gender Identity

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NPR reports  that the U.S. Public Health Service has altered the official portrait of Admiral Rachel Levine who served for four years as dep...
Wednesday, December 03, 2025

Church Autonomy Doctrine Requires Dismissal of Catholic School Employee's Discrimination Claim

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In  MoChridhe v. Academy of Holy Angels , (MN App. Dec. 1, 2025), a Minnesota state appellate court rejected an employment discrimination cl...
Tuesday, November 25, 2025

State Department Human Rights Reports Will Have Changed Focus

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Yesterday the State Department announced  a change in focus for future Country Reports on Human Rights Practices. The Daily Signal  and the ...
Tuesday, November 18, 2025

9th Circuit Remands Discrimination Suit Against Third-Party Health Plan Administrator

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In Pritchard v. Blue Cross Blue Shield of Illinois ,  (9th Cir., Nov. 17, 2025), the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals remanded to the distr...
Sunday, November 16, 2025

Certiorari Filed in Exclusion of Catholic Schools from Colorado's Preschool Program

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A petition for certiorari ( full text ) was filed last week with the U.S. Supreme Court in St. Mary Catholic Parish in Littleton v. Roy,  (S...
Friday, November 14, 2025

New Executive Order on Foster Care System Includes Focus on Religious Concerns

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President Trump yesterday issued an Executive Order titled "Fostering the Future for American Children" ( full text ). The Executi...