This week a judge in Virginia district court will consider a question coming before lawmakers and school principals across the country: should transgender Americans always be allowed to use the restrooms where they feel the most comfortable? And is it discrimination when they’re forced to do otherwise? Here is a primer on why the bathroom question is such a hot-button issue and why it’s likely to show up our newsfeeds in coming months. Bathrooms and fights for civil rights go hand-in-hand.

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  • Utah launches 'snitch line' to report trans people in bathrooms; memes flood In
    The move is the latest in a series of states that have tried to launch ways to report transgender issues to authorities; such attempts in other states have not been successful.
    05/5/2024 - 10:17 pm | View Link
  • I received life-saving care on a female-only ward. Don't transgender women deserve the same?
    As the debate about transgender patients on same-sex hospital wards rages on, GLAMOUR's Purpose Editor, Lucy Morgan, reflects on her own stay on a female-only hospital ward after surviving a ...
    05/3/2024 - 1:41 am | View Link
  • Texas attorney general threatens Austin over City Council’s effort to protect health care for transgender people
    Shortly after City Council acted Thursday to protect transgender people from discriminatory health care laws, Attorney General Ken Paxton issued a threatening statement, vowing to “consider every ...
    05/2/2024 - 6:03 pm | View Link
  • Transgender Tennesseans want state's refusal to amend birth certificates declared unconstitutional
    The fate of a decades-old Tennessee policy that does not allow transgender people to change the sex designation on their birth certificates is in the hands of a federal appeals court ...
    05/2/2024 - 8:19 am | View Link
  • South Carolina Senate takes up ban on gender-affirming care for transgender minors
    South Carolina Sen. Richard Cash, R-Powdersville, speaks in favor of a bill that would ban gender-affirming care for transgender minors on Wednesday, May 1, 2024, in Columbia, S.C. Credit: AP/Jeffrey ...
    05/1/2024 - 1:17 pm | View Link
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