Marty Walsh Responds To 'Free Speech Bus' By Raising Transgender Flag At City Hall
Boston Mayor Marty Walsh raised a flag supporting the transgender community after a bus with anti-transgender messages parked outside the State House.
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Boston Mayor Marty Walsh raised a flag supporting the transgender community after a bus with anti-transgender messages parked outside the State House.
Republican Gov. Charlie Baker signed a bill into law last year guaranteeing transgender people can use restrooms that correspond with their gender identities in Massachusetts.
The Boy Scouts of America says it will allow transgender children who identify as boys to enroll in its boys only programs.
A new Massachusetts law that prohibits discrimination against transgender people in public restrooms is "punishing" the protected religious speech of churches and pastors, a conservative Christian organization claims in a federal lawsuit filed Tuesday.
Advocates for transgender people in Massachusetts say they can no longer be legally discriminated against in public places.
It applies to schools nationwide, as many districts reopen this week after the summer vacation.
The hospital announced the launch of its new Center For Transgender Medicine and Surgery on Wednesday.
The Obama administration recently declared that transitioning children be treated consistent with their gender identity.
Public schools must now permit transgender students to use bathrooms and locker rooms consistent with their chosen gender identity.
The Massachusetts Senate is debating a bill to ban discrimination against transgender people in public accommodations.
The Massachusetts Senate is planning to discuss a bill aimed at strengthening legal protections for transgender individuals.
"It was when I was about 5 years old that something clicked in my head and I realized that I was different from most of the other kids around me."
Trump said North Carolina's law has caused unnecessary strife for the state.
The statement comes as a national debate is exploding over whether to restrict transgender people to using public bathrooms that only match their sex at birth.
Governor Charlie Baker was shouted down at an LGBT networking event.
Presidents of the Massachusetts Teachers Association and the American Federation of Teachers said Monday they support the legislation.
At Harvard, 4,000 students have submitted pronouns so far, with slightly more than 1 percent choosing something other than "he" or "she,"
The Girl Scouts of Western Washington said it has returned a $100,000 donation because it came with the provision that the money couldn't be used to support transgender girls.
Boston Mayor Marty Walsh has signed an executive order creating gender-neutral restrooms inside City Hall.
Bruce Jenner made his debut as a transgender woman in a va-va-voom cover for the July issue of Vanity Fair.
U.S. Rep. Joe Kennedy is pressing state lawmakers to approve legislation strengthening legal protections for transgender people.
Smith College is changing its policy to accept self-identified transgender women.
In the 1970s, Bruce Jenner was a symbol of American masculinity as an Olympic champion. Nearly 40 years later, in an extraordinary television interview, Jenner told the world that he identifies as a woman and has felt gender confusion since he was a little boy growing up in the New York suburbs.
A Massachusetts couple knew their child wasn't happy. So they made the courageous and difficult decision to raise their daughter as a boy at his own request.
A federal judge ordered the Massachusetts Department of Correction to grant the surgery to Michelle Kosilek in 2012.
