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In Fowler v. Stitt, decided September 29, the Oklahoma Supreme Court answered questions from the Tenth Circuit by holding that state law bars changes to the sex designation on Oklahoma birth certificates, including changes based on gender identity.…
Four New Hampshire families filed a federal lawsuit on October 1 challenging the Trump administration’s restriction on Medicaid and CHIP funding for gender-affirming youth care, according to the ACLU of New Hampshire, which represents them alongside GLAD Law…
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The Second Circuit heard oral argument on September 30 in Aetna’s appeal of an order requiring it to reconsider denial of gender-affirming facial surgery coverage for Dr. Gennifer Herley, according to her lawyers at Advocates for Trans Equality.…
America First Legal sent the U.S. Departments of Justice and Education a September 21 complaint asking them to investigate South Kingstown School District’s policy for transgender and gender-expansive students. The group objects to provisions on names, pronouns, facilities,…
Federal
The Trump administration asked the U.S. Supreme Court on September 28 to pause a lower-court order requiring the Bureau of Prisons to continue gender-affirming care for people in federal custody while litigation continues. The emergency application seeks permission…
California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed six LGBTQ-related bills on September 26. The package includes AB 1775, which expands specified professional-licensing access for service members discharged solely under the federal transgender military ban and directs state veteran programs to…
Federal
Seven House Democrats have asked Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to explain reported delays in separation pay owed to transgender service members removed under the federal military ban. In a September 24 committee release, the lawmakers cited reporting that…
A federal judge has temporarily barred the University of California from applying parts of its harassment policy to members of Defending Education who use names or pronouns inconsistent with a trans person’s gender identity. The September 19 Los…
North Dakota’s Supreme Court upheld the state’s existing ban on specified gender-affirming medical care for minors in a September 17 decision. In T.D. v. Wrigley, the court affirmed a lower court’s ruling that the challenged provisions of North…
A Denver judge denied a contempt request against Children’s Hospital Colorado, finding that the hospital complied with a preliminary order by returning gender-affirming care for minors to its scope of services. The September 23 report from Colorado Newsline…
Federal
A challenge to federal restrictions affecting transgender patients in the Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program went to a bench trial on September 23. Lambda Legal, which represents the plaintiffs, says HHS and HRSA funding conditions prevent program recipients from…
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At least six major hospital systems have reached agreements with the U.S. Department of Justice that commit them to stop providing specified puberty blockers, hormones, or surgeries as gender-affirming care to patients under 19, according to the Associated…