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Speaker at Millikin University graduation sparks outrage
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Speaker at Millikin University graduation sparks outrage

  • Updated Dec 14, 2021

DECATUR, Ill. (WAND) - A speaker at Millikin University's winter graduation has many students, faculty and alumni outraged after making transp…

Family's love helping local transgender child on his journey
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Family's love helping local transgender child on his journey

  • Tristan Hardy
  • Updated Jun 25, 2021

DECATUR, Ill. (WAND) - A huge milestone for people who are part of the LGBTQ+ community is coming out to their parents.

Bill would establish sex-segregated bathrooms in U.S. schools
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Bill would establish sex-segregated bathrooms in U.S. schools

  • Updated Mar 1, 2021

WASHINGTON (WAND) - People in schools would have to use the restrooms of their biological sex in a bill introduced by a congresswoman from Illinois. 

Pritzker affirms nondiscrimination protection for transgender people in IL health care
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Pritzker affirms nondiscrimination protection for transgender people in IL health care

  • Updated Jun 26, 2020

ILLINOIS (WAND) - Gov. JB Pritzker released guidelines Friday ensuring nondiscrimination protections against the LGBTQ+ community in Illinois …

Illinois medicaid now covers transgender surgeries
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Illinois medicaid now covers transgender surgeries

  • Tristan Hardy
  • Updated Jan 17, 2020

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (WAND) - Medicaid in Illinois now covers medical surgeries, procedures and treatment for people who are transitioning gender…

Macon Co. LGBTQ youth protest transgender ban from joining military
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Macon Co. LGBTQ youth protest transgender ban from joining military

  • "A lot of people find out I'm trans and suddenly people want to focus on what is in my pants."
  • Updated Apr 23, 2019

DECATUR, Ill. (WAND) - A Trump administration policy banned transgender people from joining the military. Members of the LGBTQ+ community were…

High court lets military implement transgender restrictions
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High court lets military implement transgender restrictions

  • Updated Jan 23, 2019

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration can go ahead with its plan to restrict military service by transgender men and women while court challenges continue, the Supreme Court said Tuesday.

Transgender inmate transferred to women's prison
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Transgender inmate transferred to women's prison

  • Updated Dec 27, 2018

LINCOLN, Ill. (WAND) – A transgender inmate who claims corrections officers abused her is now in a women’s prison.

Professor sues school over response to way he treated transgender student
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Professor sues school over response to way he treated transgender student

  • Nov 12, 2018

PORTSMOUTH, Ohio (WAND) – A professor reprimanded for calling a female transgender student by a pronoun she didn't prefer has sued his school. 

Transgender teen threatened, forcing schools to close
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Transgender teen threatened, forcing schools to close

  • Aug 15, 2018
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