Tag: Gender Issues

Religious liberty battles may take center stage in Supreme Court’s new term

Ryan Lovelace · September 4, 2017 4:01 am

According to the flyer, Cornell's Safe Place project aims "to affirm LGBTQ identities and lives and promote and affirmative and supportive environment," and "to use inclusive language, avoid stereotyping, and not assume everyone is heterosexual," among other goals. (iStock by Getty Images)

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Cornell encourages students to report peers for ‘negative reactions’ to LGBT ‘Safe Place’ project

Emily Jashinsky · August 31, 2017 8:26 pm

As far as feminists go, Taylor Swift has never really been a poster-child for the movement, though it's hard not to view her that way: She's got business-savvy, helps other women in need, and often tells younger women to stand up to bullying and accomplish their goals. (Photo by John Salangsang/Invision/AP, File)

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Is Taylor Swift a feminist icon or a whiny grumbler?

Nicole Russell · August 31, 2017 7:12 pm

New plaintiff, Regan Kibby from U.S. Naval Academy, says preliminary injunction needed to stop ban before it "ruins transgender service members' lives."

National Security

Transgender troops, backed by Obama-era Pentagon officials, ask for injunction on Trump ban

Travis J. Tritten · August 31, 2017 7:04 pm

Unlike "Ghostbusters," gender meant a great deal to "Lord of the Flies," which focuses on a group of young boys who wind up stranded on an island and rapidly devolve into savages. (Photo by Eric Charbonneau/Invision for Sony/AP Images)

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‘Lord of the Flies’ is getting the ‘Ghostbusters’ treatment, new film set to swap boys for girls

Emily Jashinsky · August 31, 2017 6:07 pm

".@IvankaTrump, self-styled champion of women, you just supported end of pay-equity rule," the Anne Frank Center, a human and civil rights nonprofit, wrote on Twitter. "Your mirror has two faces."

Ivanka Trump slammed for not standing up to rollback of Obama-era equal-pay initiative

Naomi Lim · August 31, 2017 3:10 am

".@IvankaTrump, self-styled champion of women, you just supported end of pay-equity rule," the Anne Frank Center, a human and civil rights nonprofit, wrote on Twitter. "Your mirror has two faces."

White House kills Obama-era proposal forcing businesses to collect wage data based on gender, ethnicity

Anna Giaritelli · August 30, 2017 2:33 am

Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., has proposed an amendment that would bar the Pentagon from kicking out any transgender troops or rescinding their medical benefits until the military finished a study on recruitment and reported back to Congress. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

National Security

Senate could use defense bill to stall Trump’s transgender ban

Travis J. Tritten · August 29, 2017 8:22 pm

A bipartisan group of House lawmakers introduced a bill that prohibits the Defense Department and Coast Guard from ruling out service based on gender identity. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

National Security

143 House lawmakers urge Trump to back off military transgender ban

Travis J. Tritten · August 29, 2017 5:50 pm

A Wisconsin school district is asking the Supreme Court to review an appeals court's decision allowing a transgender teenager to use the boys' bathroom while the student's lawsuit proceeds through the courts. (AP Photo/Toby Talbot, File)

Transgender bathroom battle could be headed back to Supreme Court

Ryan Lovelace · August 28, 2017 3:32 pm

The groups represent two transgender people who want to enlist in the military and an enlisted service member who wants to become a warrant officer.

National Security

ACLU, two advocacy groups file two new lawsuits against Trump’s transgender military ban

Travis J. Tritten · August 28, 2017 2:15 pm

National Security

Ryan Zinke’s daughter goes after Trump for transgender military ban

Mandy Mayfield · August 26, 2017 5:23 pm