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In November 2024, the Yale Law School hosted a panel to discuss the medical and legal connotations of the case. [37] Legal experts predict that, should the Supreme Court uphold Tennessee's law, access to many other forms of healthcare for both children and adults could also be impacted including gender-affirming care for adults and abortion access.
Also in April of 2024, anti-transgender activists claimed that transgender women have an advantage in darts, esports, hot dog eating contests, and poker. [210] After Trump won the 2024 Presidential Election, Caitlyn Jenner lauded his win publicly on Twitter where she faced both agreement, and transphobic comments from other Twitter users. [211]
One study found that 71% of transgender respondents made efforts to hide their gender or gender transition to avoid discrimination, while 57% reported delaying their gender transition to avoid discrimination. [161] Transgender individuals also face discrimination within the LGBT+ community, especially from cisgender gay men and lesbians. [166]
On July 1, 2023, Kansas Senate Bill 180 went into effect, mandating that gender markers on birth certificates and driver's licenses reflect a person's sex at birth – reversing a 2019 federal equal protection lawsuit settlement which allowed birth certificates to be changed to reflect a person's gender identity. [72] In January 2024, Florida ...
The original Equality Act was developed by U.S. Representatives Bella Abzug (D-NY) and Ed Koch (D-NY) in 1974. The Equality Act of 1974 (H.R. 14752 of the 93rd Congress) sought to amend the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to include prohibition of discrimination on the basis of sex, sexual orientation, and marital status in federally assisted programs, housing sales, rentals, financing, and brokerage ...
The enactment of the Gender Tax Repeal Act aided in combating gender-based price discrimination in the pricing of services, but did not prohibit such price differentials with respect to products. On January 21, 2016, California State Senator Ben Hueso introduced Senate Bill 899 [ 27 ] to extend prohibiting gender-based price discrimination from ...
A Nature paper titled "Online Images Amplify Gender Bias" [1] studies: "gender associations of 3,495 social categories (such as 'nurse' or 'banker') in more than one million images from Google, [English] Wikipedia and Internet Movie Database (IMDb), and in billions of words from these platforms" As summarized by Neuroscience News:
Executive Order 13988, officially titled Preventing and Combating Discrimination on the Basis of Gender Identity or Sexual Orientation, is the fourth executive order signed by U.S. President Joe Biden on January 20, 2021.