Open season starts Monday, Nov. 9. Under current Office of Personnel Management policy, federal employee health plans will exclude gender-affirming hormones and surgery in 2027, including for patients already in treatment. “Beginning in the 2027 Plan Year, Carriers must remove any exceptions process,…
Published 9:55 am Wednesday, November 4, 2026 By Aspen Ford Washington State Standard The only state ballot measure that will likely pass in Tuesday’s election is the one that would prohibit transgender girls from competing in K-12 girls’ sports. It’s a major loss…
State leaders in Colorado – for the last decade or so and even now – virtually all subscribing to the leftist Democrat agenda, have adopted a state belief system, religion in fact, promoting the LGBT ideology, specifically “nondiscrimination” rules to which they…
By Aspen Ford | Washington State Standard | November 4, 2026 The only state ballot measure that will likely pass in Tuesday’s election is the one that would prohibit transgender girls from competing in K-12 girls’ sports. It’s a major loss for the progressive…
Community members vote at the ballot box in Seattle’s Capitol Hill neighborhood Monday, Nov. 2, 2026. (Erika Schultz / The Seattle Times) An effort to ban transgender girls from girls school sports in Washington was leading in election results released Tuesday night. According…
SEATTLE — An effort to ban transgender girls from girls school sports in Washington has a significant lead in election results released Tuesday night. According to the Secretary of State’s office, 57% of voters said yes on Initiative 638, one of three ballot…
Since 2005 Two-time GLAAD Media Award winner for Outstanding Blog The U.S. Supreme Court yesterday heard arguments in a case about whether religious preschools can take public money but still discriminate against LGBTQ children and those with LGBTQ parents. Meg York, a…
SEATTLE – Washington voters appear to have passed an initiative barring transgender athletes from competing in K-12 girls sports. Meanwhile, an initiative to amend which information a school must disclose about a student and when appears to be heading to defeat.
FILE - A person picks up a button during a "No Hate in WA State" rally against multiple initiatives on the November ballot, including Washington State Initiative 638, which would prohibit transgender girls from competing in girls' sports, Saturday, Oct. 17, 2026, in Seattle.
Human rights commission that punished Korean women-only spa, which requires nudity, now says it can condition entry "on genital characteristics," but attorney general must approve emergency change. Spa not satisfied. Washington state has a legal bullseye on its back for…
Anti-discrimination laws, marriage equality, and recognition policies.
An article joins this feed when it matches these terms. Each one is also a search of its own.