All posts tagged "gender identity"
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Pope: Trans people should accept their body as “God’s gift”
Pope Francis, writing in his encyclical, has called upon transgender people to accept the body they were born with as “God’s gift.” “The acceptance of...
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AIDA Therapy: Making Space
All too often we can find ourselves feeling trapped. The buildup of day-to-day stress affects our mood, disposition, and behavior — a metaphorical wall closing...
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High School Pride
Cardozo becomes the second local public high school to hold its own pride event
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Schooling Fairfax in Nondiscrimination
Apparently no one in Fairfax County has heard of the telephone. Or the Internet. Amid outcry from concerned parents and community members over the addition...
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Fairfax readies for another fight, this time over ‘family life’ curriculum
Two weeks after the Fairfax County School Board added gender identity to the Fairfax County Public Schools’ nondiscrimination policy during a heated meeting where board...
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Lieu bill would classify gay conversion therapy as “fraud”
Amid an increase in public support for banning the practice conversion therapy on minors, and news this week that Oregon has become the third state...
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Voters in Eureka Springs, Arkansas uphold nondiscrimination ordinance
Voters in the tourist town of Eureka Springs, Ark., went to the polls on Tuesday to uphold an ordinance preventing discrimination based on sexual orientation...
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Fairfax County School Board adds gender identity to nondiscrimination policy
Gordon Baer’s voice cracked slightly as he addressed the packed auditorium at Luther P. Jackson Middle School in suburban Falls Church. “A hostile climate detracts...
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White House now offers a gender-neutral restroom
–White House spokesman Jeff Tiller, speaking with CNN. The White House complex now offers a gender-neutral restroom, letting guests and staff use a restroom that...
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Norton hits back at Heritage Foundation over Human Rights Amendment Act
D.C.’s non-voting delegate to the U.S. Congress slammed conservative think tank Heritage Foundation for its attempts to convince the D.C. Council to abandon plans to...
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Charlotte City Council rejects LGBT ordinance
Nondiscrimination ordinance fails after exempting bathrooms, locker rooms and showers
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Conversion Therapy Ban for Minors Dies in Virginia Senate
A bill to prohibit the practice of conversion or “reparative” therapies that seek to change a person’s sexual orientation or gender identity by licensed therapists...
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Va. House Hate Crimes Bill Shuttled to Subcommittee
One day after their Senate counterparts rejected a bill that would have added crimes committed against people because of their real or perceived sexual orientation...
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Hate Crimes Bill Dies in Va. Senate Committee
A bill that would have added sexual orientation and gender identification to the definition of what constitutes a hate crime failed to gain the necessary...
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Hundreds March in Support of Trans Rights
Hundreds of people rallied at Mount Vernon Square in downtown Washington on Saturday, Jan. 10 to call for action to guarantee equal treatment and civil...
