Tag: LGBT Issues

Preparing more than 23,000 military recruiters and medical evaluators for the recruiting ordered to begin in two weeks by federal courts would not be difficult or time-consuming, former surgeons general of the Navy and Army and a former Coast Guard director of health and safety wrote in the paper set to be published by the Palm Center rights group Monday. (AP Photo)

National Security

The Pentagon’s claim that it needs to train 23,000 personnel to accept transgender recruits is ‘suspicious,’ former military surgeons general say

Travis J. Tritten · December 18, 2017 4:43 pm

"It's clearer than ever: this administration has disdained women's health, LGBTQ people, and science since day one," Planned Parenthood tweeted Friday night. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki, File)

Planned Parenthood says Trump administration’s ‘disdain’ for women’s health is ‘clearer than ever’ after CDC ban on word ‘fetus’

Katie Leach · December 16, 2017 5:16 pm

University of Oklahoma Student Government president holds a sign favoring the resignation of Regent Kirk Humphreys. The regent made comments comparing gay people to pedophiles. Humphreys issued a statement to KFOR, apologizing for his comments as well as granting a bit of transparency from his perspective on the heated matter. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki)

Red Alert Politics

University of Oklahoma regent compares homosexuality to pedophilia, students call for his resignation

Isaiah Denby · December 14, 2017 7:57 pm

In an essay for Inside Higher Ed, Chris Purcell, who serves as the director of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, and Intersex Life at Vanderbilt University, believes that university officials should embrace what he calls "burner activism." (Photo via YouTube screenshot)

Red Alert Politics

Vanderbilt University administrator: Disruptive student protesters should be ‘celebrated’

John Patrick · December 14, 2017 5:42 pm

Ted Crockett, the spokesman for Republican Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore, appeared on CNN Tuesday evening to make one final pitch before the polls close in the Cotton State. (Screenshot)

Beltway Confidential

This bizarre, unhinged CNN interview with Roy Moore’s spokesman is the perfect ending to a trash election

Becket Adams · December 13, 2017 1:12 am

Moore stated in a 2005 interview with C-SPAN2's "After Words" homosexual conduct was illegal, later comparing gay sex to bestiality. (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson)

Roy Moore spokesman: Moore ‘probably’ still believes homosexual conduct should be illegal because it’s ‘a sin’

Naomi Lim · December 12, 2017 10:38 pm

"Patriotic transgender Americans who are serving -- and who want to serve -- must not be dismissed, deprived of medically necessary health care or forced to compromise their integrity or hide their identity," the statement said. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)

National Security

The Pentagon says it has to train 23,000 personnel by Jan. 1 to prepare for transgender recruits

Travis J. Tritten · December 12, 2017 8:00 pm

Transgender U.S. army captain Jennifer Sims lifts her uniform during an interview with the Associated Press in Beratzhausen near Regensburg, Germany, on June 29. The legal battle over President Trump's effort to roll back the Obama administration policy of open transgender service may just be getting underway.

Trump’s transgender military ban enters a new legal thicket

Travis J. Tritten · December 12, 2017 5:01 am

In the mind of Jack Phillips, of Masterpiece Cakeshop, he designs unique works of art that reflect his own values. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)

Masterpiece Cakeshop: When the customer is not always right

Noemie Emery · December 12, 2017 5:01 am

Trump announced in July via Twitter transgender troops would be prohibited from serving in the military and, a month later, told Secretary of Defense James Mattis to discard plans for transgender enlistments that would start in January. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

National Security

Third federal district court orders Trump administration to allow transgenders to serve in US military

Diana Stancy Correll · December 12, 2017 1:48 am

A judge ruled that transgender people will be allowed to join the military starting Jan. 1. The ruling Monday was another legal setback for President Trump's effort to ban transgender troops and roll back the open service policy enacted by the Obama administration. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)

National Security

Transgender people can join the military Jan. 1 after court strikes down Trump’s request

Travis J. Tritten · December 11, 2017 6:13 pm

Attorneys representing Jameka Evans, the security guard, wanted the Supreme Court to overturn an 11th Circuit Court of Appeals ruling and decide that sexual orientation discrimination violates the Civil Rights Act. (Kevin Wolf/AP Images for Human Rights Campaign)

Supreme Court rejects discrimination case based on sexual orientation

Ryan Lovelace · December 11, 2017 2:51 pm