All posts tagged "transgender rights"
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Log Cabin fundraising email: “I’m mad as hell” over RNC platform
Solicitation email calls RNC's recently adopted platform "the most anti-LGBT platform in the Party's 162-year history"
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GOP Platform Committee adopts language opposing LGBT rights
The Republican National Committee Platform Committee spent a good portion of Tuesday voting against any language referencing LGBT people and expressing opposition to LGBT rights, including same-sex...
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Pro-transgender ad to premiere during Republican National Convention
TV ad depicts restaurant owner trying to stop transgender customer from using the women's restroom
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Supreme Court’s refusal to hear student debt collection case is good news for transgender students
The U.S. Supreme Court’s decision not to hear a little-publicized case about student debt collection could have far-reaching ramifications for the transgender community. The Supreme...
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Trans United Fund: New organization will fight for transgender rights
Organization will engage in educational and political advocacy focusing on inequality and its root causes
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Oklahoma anti-LGBT bills miss crucial deadline for moving forward
LGBT advocates in Oklahoma are celebrating the passage of a major deadline that effectively means that 27 bills that targeted the Sooner State’s LGBT residents...
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Exemption-filled “nondiscrimination” bill fails in Indiana Senate
Republican leaders in the Indiana Senate quashed a bill that purported to protect gay and bisexual Hoosiers from discrimination in employment, housing, credit and public...
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Empire State Pride Agenda closing down operations
The top LGBT rights organization in New York state has announced it will “wind down” operations in 2016, after 25 years of advocacy, citing fulfillment...
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Sylvia Rivera photo installed in National Portrait Gallery
Transgender activist Sylvia Rivera, one of the leaders in the early days of the LGBT rights movement, has become the first transgender person to have...
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Anti-trans bathroom referendum might reach California ballot
—Gina Gleason, a proponent of a proposed ballot initiative in California known as the “Personal Privacy Protection Act” that could land on the 2016 ballot,...
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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...
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Squabble over Signature Gatherers
Two Maryland transgender-rights groups have begun expressing disagreement about how best to respond to anti-equality activists who are collecting petition signatures to place recently passed statewide gender-identity/expression...
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Maryland conservatives weighing challenge to transgender-rights bill
The conservative political site MDPetitions.com is asking visitors to the website to fill out a survey on whether they would support gathering petition signatures aimed at...
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Maryland House passes transgender-rights bill
The Maryland House of Delegates passed a bill to prohibit discrimination against transgender people in employment, housing, credit and public accommodations by a vote of...
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Goucher Poll shows widespread support for Maryland’s gender-identity bill
The Goucher Poll, conducted by the Sarah T. Hughes Field Politics Center at Baltimore-based Goucher College, released findings Wednesday showing widespread support for Maryland’s gender-identity...
