19 h. ago Transgender TSA officer sues Kristi Noem after Trump’s executive order bars her from patting down travelers

Exclusive details: TSA officer Danielle Mittereder ‘just wants to do her job,’ her attorney told The Independent. ‘And she’s not allowed to do it, for the sole reason that she is transgender.’

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23 h. ago Lawsuit challenges TSA's ban on transgender officers conducting pat

A Virginia transportation security officer is accusing the U.S. Department of Homeland Security of sex discrimination over a policy barring transgender officers from performing security pat-downs

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42 h. ago A lawsuit challenges an Alaska program that allows killing bears as a way to rebuild a caribou herd

Conservation groups are suing over a program that authorizes killing brown and black bears as a way to help grow the size of a southwest Alaska caribou herd

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2 w. ago Trump demanded trans issues be excluded from sex education. 11 states complied

16 other states have sued the White House over the federal program, saying it’s trampling on authority of CongressUS politics live – latest updatesAt least 11 states and two territories are capitulating to a recent demand from the Trump administration to strip references to gender identity and the existence of transgender and non-binary people from a federal sex education program, officials confirmed to the Guardian.The administration set a Monday deadline to remove the references or risk losing millions of dollars of federal funding. Almost all of the states that are complying have Republican-controlled state legislatures and most have Republican governors. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Federal lawsuit challenges private school that gives preference to Native Hawaiians

A lawsuit in Honolulu challenges the admissions policy of Kamehameha Schools, which gives preference to Native Hawaiian applicants

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3 w. ago NYC schools sue US education officials over $47M grant cuts tied to transgender policies

New York City schools have sued federal education officials over the U.S. Education Department's decision to discontinue grants worth millions of dollars because of school policies supporting transgender students

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