Showing posts with label Transgender. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Transgender. Show all posts
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...
Monday, November 10, 2025

6th Circuit En Banc: Banning Student-on-Student Use of Biological Pronouns Violates Free Speech Rights

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In Defending Education v. Olentangy Local School District Board of Education,  (6th Cir., Nov. 6, 2025), the U.S. 6th Circuit Court of Appea...
Friday, November 07, 2025

Supreme Court: Trump Administration Rules on Passport Gender Markers Can Go into Effect While Appeals Move Forward

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In Trump v. Orr , (Sup. Ct., Nov. 6, 2025), the U.S. Supreme Court by a 6-3 vote granted an emergency stay of a preliminary injunction that ...
Wednesday, October 15, 2025

Supreme Court Denies Review of School Policy on Hiding Students' Gender Dysphoria from Parents

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The U.S. Supreme Court yesterday denied certiorari in Lee v. Poudre School District R-1,  (Docket No. 25-89, certiorari denied (10/14/2025) ...
Sunday, October 05, 2025

Supreme Court Term Opens Monday with Several Cases of Interest on Its Docket

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The U.S. Supreme Court's fall term opens tomorrow, Oct. 6. There are a number of cases on the Court's Docket for this term that are ...
Friday, October 03, 2025

10th Circuit: Nondiscrimination Requirement Did Not Infringe 1st Amendment Rights of Catholic Preschools

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 In St. Mary Catholic Parish in Littleton v. Roy ,  (10th Cir., Sept. 30, 2025), the U.S. 10th Circuit Court of Appeals held that the nondis...
Saturday, September 20, 2025

School's Policy on Disclosure of Students' Social Transitioning Violated Due Process, But Not Parents' Free Exercise Rights

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In Mead v. Rockford Public School District ,  (WD MI, Sept. 18, 2025), parents of a middle school student, referred to as G.M., challenged a...
Wednesday, September 17, 2025

Department of Education Says School Violated Title IX in Handling Complaints About Locker Room Policy

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The U.S. Department of Education yesterday announced  that its Office for Civil Rights has found that the Louden County, Virginia, public sc...
Friday, September 12, 2025

11th Circuit En Banc: Exclusion of Sex-Change Surgeries from Health Care Coverage Is Not Facially Discriminatory Under Title VII

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In Lange v. Houston County, Georgia ,  (11 Cir., Sept. 9, 2025), the U.S. 11th Circuit Court of Appeals, sitting en banc , in an 8-5 decisio...
Wednesday, September 10, 2025

2nd Circuit: Christian School Wrongly Disqualified for Refusing to Play Against Team That Had Trans Athlete

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In Mid Vermont Christian School v. Saunders , (2d Cir., Sept. 9, 2025), the U.S. 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals held that a Christian school w...

School Rules on Non-gendered Pronouns Do Not Violate Free Exercise or Free Speech Rights

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In Hyland v. State Board of Education , (NJ App., Sept. 9, 2025), a New Jersey state appellate court rejected a 1st and 14th Amendment chall...
Friday, September 05, 2025

6th Circuit: Transgender Bathroom Rule Did Not Violate Objecting Parents' or Students' Free Exercise Rights

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In Jane and John Doe No. 1 v. Bethel Local School District Board of Education ,  (6th Cir., Aug. 26, 2025), the U.S. 6th Circuit Court of Ap...
Thursday, September 04, 2025

Christian Families Challenge Foster Care Rules on Support of Transgender Children

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Two families, asserting Christian religious beliefs, filed suit yesterday in a Massachusetts federal district court challenging on 1st and 1...
Friday, August 29, 2025

Pharmacists Sue for Religious Accommodation to Avoid Dispensing Gender-Affirming Drugs

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Two Walgreens pharmacists filed suit last week in a Minnesota federal district court challenging the drug chain's refusal to accommodate...
Friday, August 22, 2025

School Counselor's Office Display of Anti-Trans Books Is Permissible Only When No Students Are in His Office

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In Theis v. Intermountain Education Service Board of Directors ,  (D ORA, Aug. 20, 2025), a social worker employed by the district to admini...
Monday, August 11, 2025

Court Again Upholds Idaho Law on School Restroom Use by Transgender Students

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In Sexuality and Gender Alliance v. Critchfield ,  (D ID, Aug. 7, 2025), an Idaho federal district court refused to issue a preliminary inju...
Friday, August 08, 2025

10th Circuit Upholds Oklahoma's Ban on Gender-Affirming Care for Minors

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In Poe v. Drummond ,  (10th Cir., Aug. 6, 2025), the U.S. 10th Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed a trial court's refusal to preliminaril...