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[ad_1] With a bipartisan 14-10 vote Wednesday, the New Hampshire Senate approved a bil l adding “gender identity” to the list of identities protected under the state’s nondiscrimination law. Having already passed in the Republican-controlled House, it now heads to Gov. Chris Sununu (R), who has promised to sign it. New Hampshire will be the 19th state to explicitly protect transgender people from discrimination in employment, housing, and public accommodations. It’s also the first state to pass such a law since Maryland added gender identity in protections in 2014. New Hampshire lawmakers have considered trans protections since at least 2009. In general, states have recently been more focused on considering bills that limit rights for transgender people — if not outright mandate discrimination against them. Even neighboring Massachusetts, which updated its gender identity protections to include public accommodations in 2016, faces a referendum this year to repeal them. But trans ...

[ad_1] The process that led to the implementation of President Trump’s transgender military ban in March is becoming clearer, thanks to a trove of new documents that shed some light on the otherwise murky closed-door dealings. Four different lawsuits are currently challenging the ban, which was issued on March 23. A ThinkProgress review of several documents included in discovery finds a massive disconnect between what was discussed in the meetings and what was ultimately recommended, reinforcing concerns that the process was rigged from the beginning, in favor of a ban. The documents  offer a limited glimpse into the military panel that convened between October and January to study the potential consequences of such a ban, but they do nothing to help justify it. They include agendas from all 13 panel meetings, minutes from the first five of those meetings, and some other supplementary documents that guided the discussion. Many of the details from the documents are redacted to bl...

[ad_1] The process that led to the implementation of President Trump’s transgender military ban in March is becoming clearer, thanks to a trove of new documents that shed some light on the otherwise murky closed-door dealings. Four different lawsuits are currently challenging the ban, which was issued on March 23. A ThinkProgress review of several documents included in discovery finds a massive disconnect between what was discussed in the meetings and what was ultimately recommended, reinforcing concerns that the process was rigged from the beginning, in favor of a ban. The documents  offer a limited glimpse into the military panel that convened between October and January to study the potential consequences of such a ban, but they do nothing to help justify it. They include agendas from all 13 panel meetings, minutes from the first five of those meetings, and some other supplementary documents that guided the discussion. Many of the details from the documents are redacted to bl...