revoking guidance for schools on equal treatment of trans students, using the federal rule-making process to allow for discrimination against trans people in health care, homeless shelters, and other services, and arguing that federal civil rights law against sex discrimination does not cover discrimination based on gender identity — nor on sexual orientation.
Regarding the civil rights law, the Supreme Court disagreed.This has been a particularly deadly year for transgender Americans; there have been documented homicides of 30 trans people in the U.S.
this year. The most in a single year since activists and news media have kept records was 31 in 2017, so 2020 is on track to be the deadliest.