Generational Shift: The number of young people who identify as transgender in the United States has nearly doubled in recent years, according to a new report.Title IX: The Biden administration has proposed new rules that would bar discrimination against transgender students under the federal law that was signed 50 years ago.“I’ve read the decision,” he said, “and some people were surprised, but they’ve ruled and we live with their decision.” He added that it was a “very powerful decision, actually.” “Many of us feared that the court was poised to gut sex discrimination protections and allow employers to discriminate based on sexual orientation and gender identity, yet it declined the federal government’s invitation to take that damaging path.” “This is a simple and profound victory for L.G.B.T. rights were elated by the ruling, which they said was long overdue. and Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Stephen G. Trump’s first appointment to the court, was joined by Chief Justice John G. Monday’s lopsided ruling, coming from a fundamentally conservative court, was a surprise. An employee who married a same-sex partner in the morning could be fired that afternoon for being gay.
But even as the Supreme Court established that right in 2015, workplace discrimination remained lawful in most of the country. The decision achieved a decades-long goal of gay rights proponents, one they had initially considered much easier to achieve than a constitutional right to same-sex marriage.