Tag: LGBT Issues

Beltway Confidential

Culture clash: British Muslims battle liberal educators over homosexuality in schools

Abdi Mohamed · March 13, 2019 5:46 pm

President Trump has ordered Defense Secretary Jim Mattis to abandon plans to begin recruiting transgender troops, eliminate coverage for transgender surgeries by March, and to decide whether to kick out those who are currently serving.

National Security

Pentagon on new transgender policy: ‘This is not a ban’

Jamie McIntyre · March 13, 2019 4:54 pm

Army Capt. Alivia Stehlik, fourth from right, together with other transgender military members testify about their service before a House Armed Services Subcommittee.

Defense Department to implement trans military ban

Katelyn Caralle · March 13, 2019 2:00 am

Suspect.

Black transgender woman faces hate crime charges in New York over ‘anti-white’ chemical spray and scissors attacks

Claude Thompson · March 11, 2019 10:03 pm

Baker Jack Phillips, owner of Masterpiece Cakeshop, manages his shop after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that he could refuse to make a wedding cake for a same-sex couple because of his religious beliefs did not violate Colorado's anti-discrimination law.

Anti-Christian bigots in Colorado call retreat

Washington Examiner · March 9, 2019 5:00 am

Actor-singer Jussie Smollett, from the Fox series, "Empire," poses for a portrait.

Smollett indicted by grand jury on 16 felony counts

Diana Stancy Correll · March 8, 2019 11:21 pm

Iowa Supreme Court Chief Justice Mark Cady prepares to deliver his Condition of the Judiciary address.

Iowa Supreme Court rules that Medicaid must cover gender transition surgeries

Cassidy Morrison · March 8, 2019 11:17 pm

Equality March for Unity and Pride participants march past the White House in Washington, Sunday, June 11, 2017.

Trump’s right, no one deserves to die for being gay

Nathan Harvey · March 8, 2019 7:49 pm

Army Capt. Alivia Stehlik, second from left, together with other transgender military members, from left, Navy Lt. Cmdr. Blake Dremann, Army Capt. Jennifer Peace, Army SSgt. Patricia King, and Navy Petty Officer Third Class Akira Wyatt, testify about their service before a House Armed Services Subcommittee on Military Personnel hearing .

Pentagon tells currently serving transgender troops they can stay

Jamie McIntyre · March 8, 2019 7:38 pm

Baker Jack Phillips, owner of Masterpiece Cakeshop, manages his shop in Lakewood, Colo., after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that he could refuse to make a wedding cake for a same-sex couple because his religious beliefs did not violate Colorado's anti-discrimination law.

In Colorado, cake-maker Jack Phillips wins again

Jake Warner · March 8, 2019 5:31 pm

From left, transgender military members Navy Lt. Cmdr. Blake Dremann, Army Capt. Alivia Stehlik, Army Capt. Jennifer Peace, Army Staff Sgt. Patricia King and Navy Petty Officer Third Class Akira Wyatt, prepare for the House Armed Services Subcommittee on Military Personnel hearing on Capitol Hill.

National Security

Federal judge lifts injunction against Trump’s transgender military ban

Diana Stancy Correll · March 8, 2019 12:22 am

Figurines are depicted in an embrace as part of the wedding cake display at Masterpiece Cakeshop, in Denver, Thursday, June 6, 2013.

Beltway Confidential

Religious liberty advances via Kavanaugh and Colorado cakemaker

Quin Hillyer · March 7, 2019 7:28 pm