Title IX

Transgender youth in the United States, including in Alabama, have been flooding crisis hotlines since the election of Donald Trump, who made anti-transgender themes central to his campaign. Many teens worry about how their lives could change once he becomes president.

New federal protections for transgender students at U.S. schools and colleges have launched, but not everywhere, including in Alabama. Most Republican-led states challenged the rule from President Joe Biden's administration, took effect Thursday. In response, judges have blocked enforcement in 21 states plus hundreds of individual schools and colleges.

New federal protections for transgender students at U.S. schools and colleges will take effect Thursday with muted impact because judges have temporarily blocked enforcement in twenty-one states and hundreds of individual colleges and schools across the country. The regulation also adds protections for pregnant students and students who are parents, and details how schools must respond to sexual misconduct complaints. That does not include Alabama where the federal protections are set to take effect.

Alabama’s Medicaid program has announced its first real-world impact of the state budget cuts.The program announced yesterday that it would no longer…

On Friday, the U.S. Supreme Court declared that gay couples have the right to marry nationwide. But some of Alabama’s judges are refusing to grant that…

An inmate at Staton Correctional Facility has tested positive for tuberculosis.Prison medical staff say the inmate has been quarantined and is being…