Tag: LGBT Issues

Plaintiffs Cathrine Schmid, second left, and Conner Callahan, second right, listens with supporters during a news conference in front of a federal courthouse following a hearing there in Seattle. U.S. District Judge Marsha Pechman says she won't immediately consider President Trump's new policy banning transgender people from serving in the military.

National Security

Transgender rights groups launch Christmas Eve bid to block Trump policy for military

Travis J. Tritten · December 24, 2018 5:00 am

Boy Scouts and Cub Scouts salute the flag during ceremonies at the Los Angeles National Cemetery ahead of Memorial Day in 2018.

Beltway Confidential

The Boy Scouts may declare bankruptcy — let them fade into obscurity

Nicole Russell · December 17, 2018 7:46 pm

U.S. Army soldiers wear boots as they march in formation.

National Security

DOJ worried transgender enlistments could continue into 2020

Travis J. Tritten · December 16, 2018 5:00 am

A demonstrator opposed to the roll back of net neutrality rules holds a sign outside the Federal Communications Commission headquarters ahead of an open commission meeting in Washington, D.C., on Thursday, Dec. 14, 2017.

Beltway Confidential

A year after net neutrality’s demise, the Internet is faster

Philip Wegmann · December 14, 2018 5:53 pm

In this Feb. 25, 2017, file photo, Mika Brzezinski attends FX's "The Americans" season five premiere in New York.

Mika Brzezinski apologizes on the air for ‘butt boy’ comment: ‘The term is crass and offensive’

Katelyn Caralle · December 14, 2018 4:16 pm

The Stand-Up Stands Down

The Scrapbook · December 14, 2018 7:26 am

In this Sept. 27, 2018, file photo, the Supreme Court building is seen at dawn on Capitol Hill in Washington. The Trump administration is asking the Supreme Court to fast-track cases on the president's decision to prevent certain transgender people from serving in the military. The administration asked the court on Nov. 23 to take up three cases on the issue.

National Security

Trump administration asks Supreme Court to allow transgender ban to begin

Melissa Quinn · December 13, 2018 11:45 pm

President Trump.

Trump blasts ‘crazed’ Mika Brzezinski after ‘butt boy’ remark

Dominick Mastrangelo · December 13, 2018 6:15 pm

Despite the cries from the LGBT Left, the decision may not have been political. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

Beltway Confidential

I’m a gay conservative and I refuse to ‘shut the f–k up,’ Deadspin

Brad Polumbo · December 13, 2018 3:48 pm

Crowd of people shaped like transgender symbol.

Beltway Confidential

DC-area public schools are bending over backwards for the transgender movement

Nicole Russell · December 11, 2018 8:03 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

Judge presses opponents of Trump transgender ban on ‘who is combat ready’

Travis J. Tritten · December 10, 2018 8:03 pm

In this Sunday, June 26, 2016 photo Nicole Maines poses at her home in Portland, Maine. Maines, a transgender activist who won a discrimination lawsuit after her school refused to let her use the girls' bathroom will be TV's first transgender superhero. Maines will star in The CW/Warner Bros.' "Supergirl" as Nia Nal, aka Dreamer. Producers describe her character as a "soulful young transgender woman with a fierce drive to protect others."

Beltway Confidential

‘Supergirl’ now has a transgender character just to be ‘woke’

Nicole Russell · December 10, 2018 7:58 pm