No openly transgender person has been elected to any state’s senate, though four transgender lawmakers currently serve in lower chambers of state legislatures. Like those politicians, Ms. McBride said she
Alphonso David, the president of the Human Rights Campaign, the largest L.G.B.T.Q. civil rights group, responded, “We’re not taking the bait.” For years, now, Mr. David said, the president has
Over all, Chief Justice Roberts’s rate of agreement with Democratic appointees was 61 percent, up from 44 percent in the previous term. Mr. Trump has had a bad run at
For religious conservatives, the ruling was especially pointed because it came from a bench that leans conservative, and because Justice Neil M. Gorsuch, whom they had championed as a hero
WASHINGTON — Justice Neil M. Gorsuch is a profoundly conservative jurist and one of the two appointments President Trump has made to the Supreme Court that Republicans expected would fundamentally
The first case was filed by Gerald Bostock, a gay man who was fired from a government program that helped neglected and abused children in Clayton County, Ga., just south
He said: “They wonder, ‘What is going to happen when I go to the doctor? Am I going to be mis-gendered? Am I going to be mocked or ridiculed? Is
The bodies of two transgender women were found inside a charred car in Puerto Rico on Wednesday, outraging activists who said the killings were part of a disturbing history of
