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Hubert H. Humphrey Building, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services headquarters, Washington, D.C. (illustrative) — Photo: ajay_suresh, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Accountability|United States

HHS finalises §504 rule: gender dysphoria without a physical impairment is not a covered disability

Published in the Federal Register on 3 November (effective 4 January 2027), HHS’s Office for Civil Rights amends 45 CFR part 84 so that the statutory exclusion of “gender identity disorders not resulting from physical impairments” expressly encompasses “gender dysphoria not resulting from a physical impairment.” The rule responds to ambiguity created by the 2024 §504 preamble and leaves gender dysphoria caused by a physical impairment outside that exclusion.

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Colorado State Capitol, Denver — Photo: Hustvedt, CC BY-SA 3.0

Policy Watch|United States

Colorado votes 3 November on sex-based school sports (Prop 134) and a ban on sex-trait surgery for minors (Prop 135)

Colorado’s certified ballot includes two citizen-initiated statutory measures. Proposition 134 (Initiative #109, “Protect Women and Girls Sports Act”) would require school teams to be designated male, female or coed by biological sex and bar males from female teams. Proposition 135 (Initiative #110, “Protect Children from Irreversible Sex Change Surgery Act”) would bar surgery on under-18s to alter biological sex characteristics, and bar state or federal funds, Medicaid or insurance coverage for it. Both would take effect 1 January 2027.

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Swimming pool lanes and starting blocks (illustrative) — Photo: KeepActive Australia, CC BY-SA 4.0

Accountability|United States

N.D. Ga.: Gaines Title IX suit against NCAA dismissed — no federal-funds recipient

On 28 September 2026 Judge Tiffany R. Johnson granted the NCAA’s motion for summary judgment in Gaines v. NCAA (1:24-cv-01109), holding there is no evidence the NCAA received or could have received federal funds through its concussion-research partnership with the Department of Defense. Clerk’s judgment for the NCAA; case closed. The court did not decide whether the former transgender-athlete policy was sex discrimination. Appeal window open.

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Sign at a Federal Correctional Institution (Dublin, California) — Photo: Jesstess87, CC BY-SA 4.0

Accountability|United States

Supreme Court denies Trump administration’s bid to enforce BOP’s 2026 gender-dysphoria prison policy while appeals continue

On 21 October 2026 the Supreme Court denied the Solicitor General’s emergency application (No. 26A416) to stay D.D.C. orders that bar the Bureau of Prisons from enforcing its February 2026 policy ending surgeries, general new hormone interventions and social accommodations for gender dysphoria. Justices Thomas and Alito would have granted the stay. The order gives no reasons and does not decide the merits; the lower-court block stays in place while the appeal continues.

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Gates of the Oregon State Penitentiary, Salem — Photo: M.O. Stevens, CC BY-SA 3.0

Accountability|United States

Ninth Circuit vacates Oregon order forcing transgender housing into women’s prisons

On 17 September 2026 a Ninth Circuit panel in S.D. v. Reese vacated a class-wide preliminary injunction that would have required Oregon to start housing assessments with a presumption of placing male inmates who identify as women into the state’s only women’s prison — and ordered the class decertified.

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Parliament House, Court of Session and High Court of Justiciary, Edinburgh — Photo: LornaMCampbell, CC BY-SA 4.0

Accountability|European Union

Scottish court: SPS transgender prison guidance unlawful after For Women Scotland

On 19 June 2026 Lady Ross held in [2026] CSOH 59 that Scottish Prison Service guidance allowing some biological men into the women’s estate misstated the law: statute requires sex-segregated prisons by biological sex, and applying the guidance sat outside ministers’ powers.

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