It’s the son who finds the courage to come out as who he is, and the father whose love for that son overrides everything he’s been taught.”
—President Barack Obama, during his final State of the Union address on Tuesday. The President also noted, in a thinly veiled nod to the Supreme Court decision this past June, that “we secured the freedom in every state to marry the person we love.”
The U.S. Supreme Court has rejected an emergency request from the Trump administration to overturn a lower court's order blocking restrictions on gender-affirming medical care and social accommodations for transgender inmates in federal prisons, as reported by Chris Geidner at Law Dork.
On the first day of his second term, President Donald Trump signed an executive order defining sex as biologically determined at conception and refusing to recognize transgender identities. The order also directed the Federal Bureau of Prisons to change its policies governing transgender inmates, including where they are housed and their access to medications, clothing, and canteen items.
President Donald Trump used an anti-transgender slur in an October 5 social media post attacking Annie Andrews, South Carolina's Democratic nominee for the U.S. Senate seat previously held by the late Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham.
In the Truth Social post, Trump paired Andrews' first name with a rhyming anti-transgender slur.
"Annie 'Trannie' Andrews is running against our wonderful Darline Graham for the Senate in South Carolina," Trump wrote in an endorsement of Graham. "Darline is a High Quality person, maybe the Highest, and Annie Trannie is not, in particular, as it pertains to representing the Values of the Great People of South Carolina -- She is in favor of Transgender for Everyone, Open Borders, Defunding the Police, High Taxes, a Weak Military, and will absolutely fight to take your guns away -- In other words, she is against our Great Second Amendment!"
U.S. District Judge Ana Reyes says she received death threats after President Donald Trump called her a "crazed lunatic" on social media.
Reyes, who serves on the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, drew Trump's ire after she blocked his administration from removing historic features, including a century-old grove of cherry trees and a miniature golf course, from East Potomac Golf Links.
Trump seeks to transform the 36-hole facility into a single 18-hole championship course capable of hosting events such as the U.S. Open and the Ryder Cup, according to The Washington Post. The surrounding area is used by thousands of cyclists, runners, walkers, anglers, birdwatchers, and other visitors.
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