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East Aurora, Ill., school district dissolves transgender policy committee
AURORA, Ill. — After over two months of contentious debate, controversy and uncertainty, the East Aurora School District 131 has called off the creation of a new policy that would add protections for transgender and gender nonconforming students. After hearing over 30 members of the local community — about 40 miles west of Chicago — […]
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Illinois school district puts transgender policy committee on hold
The future of an Ad Hoc committee charged with creating protective policy for East Aurora School District transgender students is in question after its chairman declined to schedule further meetings due to intense opposition from local religious groups and residents. The brouhaha over the creation of a policy that would create protections for transgender and […]
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Syracuse adds protections based on gender identity to ‘Fair Practices Law’
SYRACUSE, N.Y. — The Syracuse Common Council on Monday approved a bill to amend the existing Syracuse Fair Practices Law — which was passed in 1990 to outlaw discrimination based on sexual orientation — to include gender identity and expression as protected categories.
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Illinois school committee: ‘Our transgender policy could change the country’
AURORA, Ill. — An Ad Hoc committee of the East Aurora School District 131 convened for the first time Thursday to discuss its plans to create a new policy for protecting transgender students after a previous district policy was rescinded late last month.
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San Francisco to provide equal health care access to transgender patients
SAN FRANCISCO — The San Francisco Health Commission, the governing and policy-making body of the city’s Department of Public Health, announced Tuesday its intent to remove transgender exclusions from the “Healthy San Francisco” health access program.
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Illinois advocacy group launches transgender rights initiative
The Civil Rights Agenda, a Chicago-based LGBT rights and policy advocacy group, announced Sunday the launch of a new project that will bring greater focus to advancing the rights of transgender and gender-variant communities in Illinois.
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NCTE: Tea Party group training poll watchers to target transgender voters
A right-wing, Tea Party organization called “True the Vote” is training their volunteer poll watchers to target transgender voters, claims the National Center for Transgender Equality (NCTE).
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College under fire for allowing transgender female to use women’s locker room
OLYMPIA, Wash. — A liberal arts college in Washington state has received a warning letter from the Arizona-based religious liberties legal group, Alliance Defending Freedom, advising that the college’s decision to allow a transgender female student to use a woman’s locker room could put the school in legal jeopardy.
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After flip-flop, Illinois school forms committee for new transgender policy
Following its controversial decision to rescind a policy that would have added protections for transgender and gender nonconforming students in its schools Oct. 19, the East Aurora School District announced Monday that it is forming a committee to work on an all new “inclusive policy.”
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LGBT History Month profile: Christine Jorgensen, transgender pioneer
Christine Jorgensen was the first nationally known transgender American. She used her fame to speak out on behalf of transgender people.