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The “Student eligibility in sports” bill would define the terms “men” and “women,” banning students from team sports if their gender identities don’t match the bill’s definitions. Another bill would forbid transgender people from using the bathrooms or locker rooms of their choice if the spaces don’t match their sex assigned at birth.
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The measure passed a third reading in the Wyoming Senate and now heads to the House for consideration. It would build on a law passed in 2023 banning transgender girls from playing high school sports.
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The “What is a Woman Act” would establish legal definitions for “biological sex,” “man” and “woman,” and would ban trans women from accessing the bathrooms of their choice. Another would ban DEI initiatives in state government and UW.
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In Wyoming, there’s already some guardrails in place to limit involving law enforcement without a caller’s consent.
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The Fremont County School Board is considering two policies about topics like pronouns and names for transgender students and staff this week. The new policies, “Student Transgender Considerations” and “Staff Transgender Considerations,” will go before the board for a first reading at a meeting on the evening of July 16.
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The Cowboy State is the latest state in the Mountain West to implement such a ban, which restricts medical treatment for minors undergoing gender transition.
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The annual fest launches Friday and will feature a diverse array of events across town throughout the weekend and next week. Some of those events, like the Matthew Shepard Candlelight Vigil, are somber, while others, like Thursday night Karaoke at the Great Untamed, are celebratory.
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The lawsuit played out against the backdrop of a campus-wide discussion on free speech and transgender acceptance.
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"There are legal limitations to free expression on our campus," Seidel writes. "But feeling uncomfortable or offended — and, in many cases, even feeling unsafe — is not, in and of itself, grounds for stopping speech."
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College sororities are free to induct whoever they want, and that includes transgender students, according to a recent ruling from a federal court judge.