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The ACLU’s amicus brief outlines why the government speech doctrine does not apply to library catalog curation and that the First Amendment applies to library book removals. In many native cultures, she explains, “As long as an individual could sustain meaningful relationships that involved emotional or labor reciprocity — regardless of cognitive, physical or emotional capacities … , they were not considered disabled.” In recent decades, scholars have echoed the indigenous way of understanding disability through what they call the social model of disability.
At the same time that this medically necessary health care would be prohibited for transgender youth, it explicitly endorses and allows coverage for surgical procedures on intersex youth and infants, which are frequently performed without the individual’s own consent. Students in Escambia County have every right to check out And Tango Makes Three or any other book they want without fear that the government will take it off the shelf for political reasons.” Plaintiffs filed an appeal with the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals in October.
Clayton County affirming that discrimination against someone because they are LGBTQ is sex discrimination under Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act. Justice Neil Gorsuch, writing for the majority, said: “it is impossible to discriminate against a person for being homosexual or transgender without discriminating against that individual based on sex.” Trump also withdrew an executive order issued by former President Joe Biden directing federal agencies to enforce this court ruling as applied to all laws prohibiting sex discrimination.
We all deserve the freedom to be ourselves, including the right to determine what’s right for our bodies and lives.
Trump nominated Wray in 2017 after firing Wray’s predecessor, James Comey.
We rate the claim that Patel posted on X that "the FBI is gay" False.
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It would uproot families who have already fled state-level bans, leaving them with nowhere to turn for the care they need to survive and thrive. When telling the story of disability, we can acknowledge the real limits and real possibilities inherent within every human life.
The order specifically calls on the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to ignore the guidelines of the Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA) and enforce a blanket policy forcing transgender women into men’s prisons and detention centers against their will. We can tell a different story and shape a different world.
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So far, the Trump administration has told a story about disability that diminishes us all.
At the same time that the legislation criminalizes care for transgender youth, it explicitly endorses non-consensual surgical procedures on intersex youth and infants. Recent state laws that use these definitions to discriminate against transgender people have resulted in invasive and traumatizing efforts to determine who “counts” as a man or as a woman, targeting youth who are even suspected of being transgender because they do not conform to sex stereotypes.
Explore Press Release. He was then tapped for roles in the Trump administration, including deputy assistant to the president and senior director for counterterrorism at the National Security Council and chief of staff to acting Defense Secretary Christopher Miller.
Patel has promised to make drastic changes to the FBI’s footprint if the Senate approves his nomination.
The Trump administration is telling a false story not only about disability, but about who we are as humans.
I’m particularly attuned to the language surrounding disability because our 19-year-old daughter Penny has Down syndrome. The book, based on real penguins at the Central Park Zoo, has won multiple literary awards and is widely beloved by parents and educators.
“Removing a book from the library explicitly because of its perceived ideological leanings is antithetical to the First Amendment,” said Emerson Sykes, senior staff attorney with the ACLU’s Speech, Privacy, and Technology Project. Transgender people frequently update the sex designation on documents like birth certificates, driver’s licenses, and passports to reflect their gender identity rather than the sex they were assigned at birth.
And Tango Makes Three, written by Peter Parnell and Justin Richardson and illustrated by Henry Cole, was removed from schools in Escambia County, Florida in 2023 because of its depiction of two male penguins raising a chick together. Instead of using the language of defect, we learned and practiced the language of limitations and possibilities, and we began to understand how all human lives are marked by both.
In “A Disability History of the United States,” Kim Nielsen writes, “Most indigenous communities had no word or concept for what in American English we today call ‘disability.’” She explains how the idea of physical and intellectual disability emerged from a view of humanity that evaluates humans based on productive capacities.
The order also mandates that BOP withdraw critical health care from trans people in federal prison.
We also expect to see immediate impacts on access to updated sex designations on U.S. passports.