Transgender Health Care Ban | GLAAD https://glaad.org GLAAD rewrites the script for LGBTQ acceptance. Fri, 18 Apr 2025 20:06:11 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8 https://media.glaad.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/20110814/cropped-glaad-cyan-icon-32x32.png Transgender Health Care Ban | GLAAD https://glaad.org 32 32 Heroes of the Resistance: Standing Up for LGBTQ Rights in Employment, the First Amendment, Health Care, Marriage Equality, and More. https://glaad.org/heroes-of-the-resistance-standing-up-for-lgbtq-rights-in-employment-the-first-amendment-health-care-marriage-equality-and-more/ https://glaad.org/heroes-of-the-resistance-standing-up-for-lgbtq-rights-in-employment-the-first-amendment-health-care-marriage-equality-and-more/#respond Fri, 18 Apr 2025 14:47:30 +0000 https://glaad.org/?p=934914 Much has happened this week in positive changemaking for the LGBTQ community at this time of challenge and uncertainty. Heroes in government, law, and in faith communities, are standing up to enormous pressure by the Trump administration and those emboldened by anti-LGBTQ rhetoric. Standing Up for LGBTQ Protections in Employment At the Equal Employment Opportunity [...]

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]]> https://glaad.org/heroes-of-the-resistance-standing-up-for-lgbtq-rights-in-employment-the-first-amendment-health-care-marriage-equality-and-more/feed/ 0 GLAAD RESPONDS TO PRESIDENT TRUMP’S DISINFORMATION TARGETING LGBTQ AMERICANS DURING JOINT ADDRESS TO CONGRESS https://glaad.org/releases/glaad-responds-to-president-trumps-disinformation-targeting-lgbtq-americans-during-joint-address-to-congress/ Wed, 05 Mar 2025 19:24:22 +0000 https://glaad.org/?post_type=releases&p=930359 (New York, NY  – March 5, 2025) GLAAD, the world’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) media advocacy organization, is responding to President Donald Trump’s joint address to Congress and the administration’s continued attempts at spreading false and harmful rhetoric about LGBTQ people.  Among the Falsehoods: Trump falsely claimed he “brought back free [...]

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]]> GLAAD STATEMENT AND FACTS FOR REPORTERS ON LATEST DISCRIMINATORY AND INACCURATE EXECUTIVE ORDER TARGETING TRANSGENDER AMERICANS https://glaad.org/releases/glaad-statement-and-facts-for-reporters-on-latest-discriminatory-and-inaccurate-executive-order-targeting-transgender-americans/ Wed, 05 Feb 2025 19:34:33 +0000 https://glaad.org/?post_type=releases&p=928200 GLAAD: “This administration’s latest inaccurate and incoherent piece of paper smears an entire group of Americans but does not change the law or the facts. All women and girls, including transgender women and girls, should be welcome to play sports if they want, make decisions about their own bodies, be hired for jobs they are [...]

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]]> Cabinet Confirmation Hearings Largely Ignore LGBTQ Issues Despite Disparate Impact of Agency Policy on LGBTQ People https://glaad.org/trumps-nominees-hearings/ Mon, 03 Feb 2025 13:44:16 +0000 https://glaad.org/?p=927202 The Senate confirmation hearings for President Donald Trump’s nominees began January 14, 2025. Despite the critical roles these nominees, if confirmed, will play in shaping national policy, the hearings notably lack substantive questioning or responses regarding the safety and equality of LGBTQ people, even as President Trump has taken high interest in targeting the community [...]

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]]> Congress Sends National Defense Authorization Act With Dangerous Anti-Transgender Provision to President Biden’s Desk https://glaad.org/congress-sends-national-defense-authorization-act-with-dangerous-anti-transgender-provision-to-president-bidens-desk/ https://glaad.org/congress-sends-national-defense-authorization-act-with-dangerous-anti-transgender-provision-to-president-bidens-desk/#respond Thu, 19 Dec 2024 22:28:32 +0000 https://glaad.org/?p=925482 Despite vigorous opposition from LGBTQ military families and civil rights organizations, the U.S. Senate yesterday passed and sent the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) to President Biden’s desk with a dangerous provision that discriminates against military families raising transgender youth, supporting a version of the bill that previously passed in the U.S. House. The provision [...]

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]]> https://glaad.org/congress-sends-national-defense-authorization-act-with-dangerous-anti-transgender-provision-to-president-bidens-desk/feed/ 0 U.S. SENATE PASSES NATIONAL DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION ACT WITH DISCRIMINATORY PROVISION TARGETING MILITARY FAMILIES WITH TRANSGENDER DEPENDANTS https://glaad.org/releases/us-senate-passes-national-defense-authorization-act-with-discriminatory-provision-targeting-military-families-with-transgender-dependants/ Wed, 18 Dec 2024 21:08:38 +0000 https://glaad.org/?post_type=releases&p=925320 Final version of defense bill includes harmful language impacting an estimated 7,000 families’ access to lifesaving health care (New York, NY – December 18, 2024) – GLAAD, the world’s leading LGBTQ media advocacy organization, is responding to the U.S. Senate’s vote in favor of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), a federal bill that contains [...]

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]]> Dangerous Provision in Federal Defense Bill Seeks to Discriminate Against Military Families Raising Trans Youth https://glaad.org/dangerous-provision-in-federal-defense-bill-seeks-to-discriminate-against-military-families-raising-trans-youth/ https://glaad.org/dangerous-provision-in-federal-defense-bill-seeks-to-discriminate-against-military-families-raising-trans-youth/#respond Tue, 17 Dec 2024 16:52:40 +0000 https://glaad.org/?p=924816 Original article published on December 11, 2024 Congress is considering a dangerous provision in the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) that targets the dependents of active military service members and retirees and their essential health care. The provision would effectively ban nearly all forms of gender-affirming care through TRICARE, health care that is supported by [...]

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]]> https://glaad.org/dangerous-provision-in-federal-defense-bill-seeks-to-discriminate-against-military-families-raising-trans-youth/feed/ 0 MILITARY FAMILIES IN LIMBO AS U.S. SENATE CONSIDERS NATIONAL DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION ACT WITH ANTI-TRANSGENDER PROVISION https://glaad.org/releases/military-families-in-limbo-as-us-senate-considers-national-defense-authorization-act-with-anti-transgender-provision/ Tue, 17 Dec 2024 16:05:55 +0000 https://glaad.org/?post_type=releases&p=925276 20+ Senators introduce amendment removing harmful language that could impact 7,000 families’ access to lifesaving health care (New York, NY – December 17, 2024) – GLAAD, the world’s leading LGBTQ media advocacy organization, elevated transgender and military voices today in response to the pending National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), a federal bill pending in Congress [...]

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]]> GLAAD STATEMENT IN RESPONSE TO DISCRIMINATORY PROVISION TARGETING ACTIVE DUTY AND RETIRED MILITARY FAMILIES IN THE NATIONAL DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION ACT https://glaad.org/releases/glaad-statement-in-response-to-discriminatory-provision-targeting-active-duty-and-retired-military-families-in-the-national-defense-authorization-act/ Mon, 09 Dec 2024 22:14:25 +0000 https://glaad.org/?post_type=releases&p=924784 (New York, NY — December 9, 2024) GLAAD, the world’s leading LGBTQ media advocacy organization, is responding to a dangerous and discriminatory provision in the final draft of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) targeting the dependents of military service members and retirees and their essential health care. The provision would effectively ban nearly all forms [...]

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]]> RECAP: Oral Argument in Landmark Supreme Court Case on Transgender Health Care https://glaad.org/recap-oral-argument-in-landmark-supreme-court-case-on-transgender-health-care/ https://glaad.org/recap-oral-argument-in-landmark-supreme-court-case-on-transgender-health-care/#respond Thu, 05 Dec 2024 16:44:16 +0000 https://glaad.org/?p=924459 The U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments yesterday in U.S. v. Skrmetti, a landmark case that could have widespread impacts on the availability of health care for transgender youth and their families nationwide, as well as the freedom of health providers to offer care. The case challenges Tennessee’s law banning health care such as hormone [...]

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