The University of Pennsylvania has agreed to ban transgender athletes from its women’s sports teams, settling a federal civil rights case stemming from the furor around swimmer Lia Thomas, the US government said Tuesday. The US Department of Education said in a statement that UPenn had entered into a resolution agreement vowing to comply with Title IX, the federal law …

The United States will begin removing transgender troops from the military within 30 days unless they obtain a waiver on a case-by-case basis, the Pentagon said in a Wednesday memo. The memo became public as part of a court filing in a case challenging President Donald Trump’s late January executive order that was aimed at barring military service by transgender …

President Joe Biden on Monday pushed back against criticism of his proclamation on the weekend in support of transgender people, which coincided with Easter. “I didn’t do that”, Biden said in response to a question from the press about his issuing the proclamation. When asked about House Speaker Mike Johnson’s criticism of the proclamation, the president replied that “he’s thoroughly …