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Supreme Court indicates it could side with anti-LGBTQ+ web designer in key civil rights case
During oral arguments, the court’s conservative majority questioned the strength of the state’s case.
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Catholic hospitals deny same-sex couples fertility treatment
It’s one of the first instances in the United States of an employer explicitly excluding workers from health coverage not because of objections to a particular treatment or service but because of the employee’s sexual orientation.
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Georgia considering “a panel of three physicians” to evaluate girls’ genitals for school sports
Republican lawmakers want to ban trans girls from sports, and here’s how they’re going to enforce it.
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New Trump rule gives federal contractors a license to discriminate against LGBTQ people
He just made it a lot easier for businesses to claim a “religious exemption” to LGBTQ discrimination laws.
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A florist wants the Supreme Court to allow her to discriminate because flowers are ‘speech’
She says her flowers are art, so she can’t be forced to sell arrangements to gay couples.
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Trump will make it legal for federal contractors to discriminate against LGBTQ people
The White House is moving forward with another big religious exemption to civil rights law, but says Trump’s “promise and commitment to the LGBTQ community” remains intact.
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Hawaii’s Supreme Court rejects religious excuse for discrimination against lesbians
A B&B owner refused to rent the couple a room, saying homosexuals “defile the land.”
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Trump will rescind transgender health care protections
Before the rule was enacted, health insurers often refused to cover expenses related to transitioning, calling them “cosmetic” or “experimental.”
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Hawaii court rules ‘Christian B&B’ can’t use religion as a weapon against gay couples
The owner said that letting a lesbian couple stay at her hotel would have “defiled the land.”