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Trans athlete wins lawsuit to compete in USA Powerlifting events
USA Powerlifting said its policy wasn’t transphobic but to ensure fairness since trans women have a “direct competitive advantage” over cisgender women.
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Vermont coach suspended for misgendering student sues school district
After being harassed for changing in the girls’ locker room, a trans girl in Vermont is demonized in right-wing media.
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Teacher says she got harassed for standing up for LGBTQ kids. Now she’s suing the district.
One of her colleagues accused her of “pushing her beliefs on students” by starting a GSA and called LGBTQ people “unnatural” and “mutation[s] of nature.”
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Teen sues Tennessee over trans sports ban. He just wanted to play on the golf team.
“I just want to play, like any other kid,” Luc Esquivel says. But he was “singled out” by Tennessee’s new ban on transgender student-athletes.
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MLB player accused of sexual assault claimed it was consensual. Then he found out she’s a lesbian.
Former Los Angeles Dodger Yasiel Puig said he had consensual sex with his accuser at a Lakers game. She said that couldn’t be further from the truth.
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Is this Catholic NFL owner trying to bury stories of child sexual abuse?
New Orleans Saints owner Gayle Benson has deep ties to the Catholic Church, and a lawsuit alleges her team is assisting them in cleaning up their image after child abuse allegations.
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Two LGBT students are suing an evangelical college for expelling them
In what may lead to a landmark judiciary decision, two students are suing Fuller Theological Seminary for banning them over their same-sex marriages.
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Nike under fire for failing to recognize trans contractor’s pronouns, gender identity
At least one co-worker told the trans contractor that it was against her religion to refer to them as they identify, while others literally began to ignore the contractor rather than correct themselves.
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Trans people in Japan can no longer be banned from bathrooms, court says
The Tokyo judge presiding over the case found one government employee’s treatment by her employer, including asking her to ‘go back to being a man’, to be ‘lacking in validity’.
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Union files labor dispute charges against National Center for Transgender Equality
This comes after ex-employees of the NCTE banded together to write a scathing open letter explaining the alleged institutional discrimination that caused them to leave.