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Lawyer who fought to ban trans people from bathrooms will lead DOJ civil rights division
He will head up the Department of Justice’s efforts to fight discrimination, even though he has spent his life defending it.
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Anglican church is set to ban pro-LGBTQ speech (& yoga!) on its property
They hope that officially stating their anti-LGBTQ views will help them get a religious exemption to the law.
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GOP reboots for another round of anti-trans bathroom bills in TX
Texas lawmakers are poised to try again to fight against transgender restroom use and same-sex marriage.
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Trump administration signals that it’ll look the other way on LGBTQ discrimination
A new directive encourages the people who enforce the ban on discrimination to consider the “religious freedom” of federal contractors.
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Civil rights & child welfare groups gear up to fight attempts to legalize bans on gay adoption
The U.S. has nearly 440,000 children in foster care, more than 117,000 of whom are waiting to be adopted.
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CVS pharmacist fired for refusing to fill hormone prescription for trans woman
Instead of picking up her first prescription for hormone therapy, she “left the store feeling mortified.”
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Court rules against religious exemptions in gay wedding invitation case using cakeshop logic
The court said that a ban on anti-LGBTQ discrimination does not violate a store’s free speech rights.
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Trump appointee: ‘Sincerely held religious beliefs’ can excuse discrimination
Trump’s Air Force Secretary announced that an officer who discriminated against a gay subordinate will not face any penalties.
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SC Republicans want to call your relationship a ‘parody marriage’
Conservative lawmakers say that their “religious freedom” is threatened unless they’re allowed to insult same-sex marriages.
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Conservative Christians sue the University of Iowa for the right to discriminate
The school won’t let them reserve campus space since they discriminate against LGBTQ people.