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News (USA)
UPS’s famously strict dress code is becoming trans-friendly
“No matter how you identify – dress appropriately for your workday.”
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Politics
Trump is trying to rescind LGBTQ worker protections at the National Labor Relations Board
A federal worker union is sounding the alarm about Trump appointees trying to take away LGBTQ protections.
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News (USA)
Update: St. Louis County claims it’s okay to discriminate against gay police officer
Desperate to avoid paying out a $20 million dollar verdict – with interest and fees – new lawyers are trying any tactic to get the judgement set aside.
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Commentary
Will the conservative majority Supreme Court abandon Anthony Kennedy’s support for equality?
The Supreme Court is set to hear arguments this week on whether the 55-year-old federal civil rights law extends job protections to LGBT and transgender workers nationwide.
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Politics
The Trump administration told the Supreme Court that trans discrimination should be legal
Their argument is that trans women aren’t really women. The 54-page brief is just a riff on that.
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News (USA)
Senator holds up confirmation of a lesbian because she’s the ‘Dragon Queen of Religious Bigotry’
One anti-LGBTQ senator is holding up her nomination because she’s coming for “you, your family, and your neighbors.”
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Life
Black, Hispanic & Asian people are more likely than Caucasians to identify as LGBTQ
LGBTQ people are racially diverse with one-third of the LGBTQ community made up of people of color.
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News (USA)
The Trump Administration argues that businesses can fire people for being gay
The Justice Department argued that it’s perfectly legal for employers to discriminate based on off-the-job, private “sexual behavior.”
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News (USA)
Court rules Civil Rights Act doesn’t protect against anti-gay discrimination
An increasing number of trial and appeals courts have found that existing law bars anti-LGBTQ discrimination, but no federal appellate court has so far supported this interpretation.
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News (USA)
Trans woman’s legal battle in limbo after changes in Washington
The attorney representing Aimee Stephens said she “is reasonably concerned that the EEOC may no longer adequately represent her interests going forward.”









