Gender Identity
The unsigned ruling on the government's emergency application declared that having to demonstrate sex assigned at birth did not violate equal protection principles.
"I’ve seen what happens when kids grow up under the weight of expectations that have nothing to do with who they actually are."
“Some days, I felt euphoria, as if I’d finally found my true home. Others, I broke down.”
"All I knew was that when I yelled, people stopped what they were doing. When I broke things, people listened."
WHAT'S HAPPENING
The letter from the Texas Tech chancellor comes just weeks after Texas A&M fired an instructor over speaking about gender and sexuality.
"I internalized what she thought of my hair. I hadn’t left the house with my natural hair texture in years."
"What kids need most in those moments is to feel accepted, understood and emotionally safe."
“We don’t need to be treated like children,” one tourist fumed about Trump bullying museums to rewrite history and erase transgender people from exhibits.
Artist Mary Catherine Starr illustrates some frustrating parenting double standards that still exist today.
“When I glanced up, cheeks burning with embarrassment from my nakedness, I found Adam fully absorbed elsewhere.”