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Supreme Court sends transgender bathroom case back to lower court
This is happening because the Trump administration rescinded the federal government’s guidance on transgender protections.
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Attorneys general file brief in support of trans teen Gavin Grimm’s SCOTUS case
The friend-of-the-court brief, filed by 19 attorneys general, says that allowing transgender people to use bathrooms matching their gender creates no public safety, privacy or financial burdens.
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Arkansas Supreme Court strikes down local LGBTQ non-discrimination ordinance
Arkansas state law requires uniform non-discrimination categories. Since the state doesn’t offer LGBTQ protections, the court ruled that Fayetteville can’t either.
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White House: Trans students’ civil rights should be left up to the states
“The president has maintained for a long time that this is a states’ rights issue and not one for the federal government,” Spicer said.
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Virginia House of Delegates passes ‘license to discriminate’ bill
The bill’s sponsor said that the governor “crossed a line” when he signed an order prohibiting anti-LGBT discrimination.
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Virginia House approves license to discriminate in the name of religion
Legislators gave early approval to a bill that prohibits the state from penalizing any group or person who believes that marriage is only between a man and woman.
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Virginia Republicans swiftly kill transgender bathroom bill
Members of a GOP-controlled House subcommittee used an unrecorded voice vote to ditch the “Physical Privacy Act.”
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VA governor bans LGBTQ discrimination following introduction of ‘bathroom bill’
Governor Terry McAuliffe’s executive order makes anti-LGBTQ discrimination among state employees, contractors and subcontractors illegal.
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The top 10 transgender stories of 2016
2016 was the year that “transgender” crossed from the unique and rare into topical conversations across the country, and around the world.
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These 80 Christian leaders are plotting the abolition of LGBT legal protections
One Catholic leader declares “timidity and false compromise will bring ruin to our culture and our freedom to live and teach the Catholic Faith.”