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D.C. Jury Awards $930K to Trans McDonald’s Employee for Bias

“I feel extremely grateful for the result of the court case. I feel blessed,” says Diana Portillo, a transgender immigrant who recently won a historic judgment relating to a discrimination and harassment lawsuit against the owner of the McDonald’s franchise for which she worked.
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Former ‘Bachelorette’ star Josh Seiter describes ‘abuse’ since coming out as trans: ‘I fear for my safety’
A former Bachelorette star who came out as transgender since the show says she doesn’t need surgery or hormone treatment to “be a woman.”Josh Seiter, 37, who was born male, and appeared on season 11 of TV show in 2015 as a cis male competing with others to match with a single woman.But she came out as a trans woman in May 2024 and has faced death threats since.Josh has now revealed she is not on hormone medication and is unsure if she will get surgery.She says she’s now realised she “doesn’t need to take anything to be a trans woman”.But this hasn’t stopped trolls cruel comments over her decision to turn down surgery and keep traditionally-male features like facial hair.She says some abuse has even come from trans people who say she is not trans or part of the LGBTQ+ community.Josh, a influencer, from Chicago, Illinois, said: “I fear for my safety all the time.“If I am in a restaurant, a park or in downtown Chicago I get nervous.“I am looking behind my back and wondering if someone is going to stab me or hurt me.“The abuse I have been getting is pretty awful – I have been met with intolerance, bigotry and gatekeeping.”Josh said she has struggled with his identity for as long as she can remember.Aged seven she would often go into her parent’s bedroom while they were out and put on her mum’s dresses and jewellery.Josh said: “I couldn’t articulate what I was going through but I knew I felt comfortable.“I was homeschooled in a very conservative Christian family.“It was only in college that I was given the freedom to explore my gender identity.“It was during that time that I knew I was trans but 18 years ago there wasn’t that vocabulary.”Josh came out as pansexual in January 2021 but it wasn’t until his dad died in April that
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Florida High School Suspends Mom of Trans Athlete
failed to register her transgender daughter as male when the now-16-year-old started high school.It started in November 2023, when Broward County Public Schools Superintendent Dr. Peter Licata reassigned Monarch High School Principal James Cecil, Assistant Principal Kenneth May, athletic director, and coach Dione Hester, and Norton after receiving a complaint that a transgender athlete had competed on the girls’ volleyball team.The reassignments triggered student protests at Monarch High, including a student-led walkout.A month later, the Florida High School Athletic Association penalized Monarch for breaking the law, fining it $16,500 dollars, issuing a letter of reprimand that will remain “a permanent part of it membership record,” placing the school on probation for year, and suspending Norton’s daughter from participating in any sports for a year.The FHSAA also ordered Monarch to require its administrators, employees, and athletic staff to attend seminars and workshops on how to comply with Florida’s “Fairness in Women’s Sports” law.The investigation revealed that Norton’s daughter began taking puberty blockers at age 11 and has since begun receiving hormone therapy.The girl is small and slight, and often sat on the bench during her freshman and sophomore years, even as the girls’ volleyball team racked up a 13-7 record last season.
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Japan OKs Gender Change for Trans Woman Without Surgery
Japan Times.The plaintiff in the case, a trans woman in her 30s, had sought to legally change their gender, but the Hiroshima High Court and the family court ruled that she failed to meet the “surgical requirement.”The woman’s lawyers then appealed to the Supreme Court, which ruled last year that the sterilization requirement was unconstitutional.The court subsequently sent the case back to the Hiroshima High Court so it could rule on whether requiring surgical interventions to meet the “appearance requirement” was legal.On July 10, the court ruled that a person assigned male at birth can legally change their gender without undergoing surgery.The high court found that the plaintiff already resembles a female in bodily appearance due to hormone therapy and that there is no need for her to undergo sterilization.The court also found that the plaintiff has a right to avoid undergoing invasive and often expensive gender confirmation surgery that would cost over a million yen ($6,190 dollars), according to the newspaper The Mainichi.“[The law] gives them a tough either-or choice of having the surgery, thereby eliminating the right not to damage one’s body, or eliminating the right to enjoy the legal benefits based on their gender identity,” the ruling reads.There are differences in how Japanese courts look at the law’s application to transgender men versus transgender women.For example, it tends to be easier for trans men, simply by undergoing hormone therapy, to meet the “appearance requirement,” while for transgender females, removal of male genitalia has generally been thought necessary to meet the same requirement.In the particular case of the trans plaintiff, the changes that her body underwent due to hormone therapy were
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