Casey Parks

Jan 14, 2025 | bostonglobe.com | Laura Meckler |Casey Parks

The House on Tuesday passed legislation banning transgender girls and women from competing in women’s sports in elementary school through college, elevating an issue that Republicans pushed hard in campaigns last year to one of their first priorities in the new Congress. The bill passed 218-206 with all Republicans present voting yes, and all but two Democrats voting no. If the measure becomes law, schools that allow trans girls or women to compete could lose federal education funding.

Jan 14, 2025 | detroitnews.com | Laura Meckler |Casey Parks

The House was set Tuesday to debate a measure banning transgender girls and women from competing in women’s school sports, elevating an issue that Republicans pushed in campaigns last year to one of their first priorities for the new Congress. The bill was expected to pass with all or virtually all Republicans voting yes and perhaps some Democratic support as well.

Dec 12, 2024 | washingtonpost.com | Casey Parks |Maegan Vazquez

Thousands of transgender minors could soon be impacted by an 11th-hour addition to the critical annual defense spending bill passed by the House of Representatives on Wednesday, after Republicans sought to include a provision barring the U.S. military's health care system from providing certain types of gender transition health care to the children of U.S. service members.

Dec 9, 2024 | washingtonpost.com | Maham Javaid |Casey Parks

Some LGBTQ+ people are anxiously preparing for what they fear will be a rollback of their rights. Zoei Montgomery is so nervous about President-elect Donald Trump's second presidency that she is making plans to escape to Canada if life in the United States becomes intolerable for her as a transgender woman.

Dec 5, 2024 | washingtonpost.com | Casey Parks

She had tried for more than a year not to think about this day. She had school to focus on, songs to record, a driver's license to earn. She didn't want to fly halfway across the country to fight for the health care that made her life better. And so, for most of the time her lawsuit had wound its way to the Supreme Court, L.W. had willed herself to think about almost everything else. She researched colleges with aviation majors. She turned 16. She went to Japan and started collecting Pokémon cards.