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Alabama school officials reviewing rules for transgender students
Alabama education officials have spent the past few weeks reviewing legal issues regarding transgender students accessing locker rooms and restrooms on school properties.
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Virginia panel OKs bill mandating school restroom use based on biological sex
The bill is designed to keep transgender students from using the restroom of the gender with which they identify.
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5-year-old gender non-conforming student spurs debate at Minnesota charter school
The parents of a 5-year-old child who is gender nonconforming asked Nova Classical Academy to help make sure their student was not being bullied.
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School for LGBT youth called first of its kind in Georgia
Pride School founder Christian Zsilavetz says the school is open to any student who believes they’re not getting the support they need for “being different.
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Laramie school district drafts policies to address needs of transgender students
The Albany County School District policies were drafted based on suggestions from a committee of parents of students, district administration, school principals, school board members and students.
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Nearly three dozen religious colleges seek waivers on transgender students
At least 34 schools in 20 states have received, or are seeking, federal waivers allowing them to discriminate against transgender students in admissions, housing and other areas of campus life.
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Judge rules against Catholic school in gay-hiring retraction
A judge has ruled that a Catholic school violated state anti-discrimination law by rescinding a job offer to a gay man in a same-sex marriage.
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Indiana college is latest to be granted exemption from federal LGBT protections
The waiver doesn’t mean people who are attracted to the same sex are prohibited from attending or graduating from the Christian school but that they must be celibate.
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Nebraska transgender student athlete policy created with ‘Midwestern values’ in mind
The policy says that transgender students who who have not had sex reassignment surgery would be required to use locker rooms and restrooms that are associated with their gender at birth.
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Federal appeals court to hear transgender student’s lawsuit
Gloucester High School junior Gavin Grimm is asking the court to reverse the recent denial of an injunction that would have allowed him to use the boys’ restroom.