Gender Identity

The decision handed down on Monday cleared the way for Florida to prohibit transgender minors from being prescribed puberty blockers and hormonal treatments, even with their parents’ permission.

The law that was revived prohibits transgender minors from being prescribed puberty blockers and hormonal treatments, even with their parents’ permission.

Accounts spread through social media said officials at the college had sent a large collection of books from its recently shuttered gender studies program to a local landfill.

The new rule threatens the loss of insurance funds in an attempt to prevent discrimination based on sex, including gender identity. The judge wrote that state agencies faced "imminent injury" because of the rule.

The injunction by a federal judge applies in Alaska, Kansas, Utah and Wyoming, as well as a Stillwater, Oklahoma, middle school that has a student suing and to members of three groups fighting the rule.

Florida, three other states and four organizations challenged the Biden administration's addition of sexual orientation and gender identity to the landmark law that bars discrimination in education based on sex.

The State Board of Education approved the changes as Florida challenges a Biden administration rule that would help carry out Title IX.

The board's resolution defines sex as male or female, acknowledges the importance of single-sex bathrooms and directs the superintendent to consider no policy changes while legal challenges play out.

Gov. Ron DeSantis says Florida won’t comply with new Title IX rules.

The new rules spell out that the 1972 law to protect women's rights in schools also applies to sexual orientation and gender identity. Gov. Ron DeSantis says, "We will not comply."

Under the new rules, students must be allowed to use pronouns and bathrooms that align with their gender identity among other changes.

In founding Capital Tea, Janel Diaz sought to provide the kind of services that she had needed after her transition.