Gavin Grimm, the Virginia transgender student who took a bathroom case to the United States Supreme Court, dropped part of his case Friday, after years of high-profile litigation that could have marked the first transgender case to be heard by the high court. Papers were filed in Richmond just before 4 p.m. to drop the appeal seeking an immediate end to the Gloucester County Virginia school district’s bathroom policy.
Moments before presenting themselves at the border in Nogales, Arizona, 16 gay and transgender refugees from Central America stood hand in hand for a moment of reflection. The journey to this point had been long, and it wasn’t over yet. Most of them had met each other for the first time on their way to Mexico, and all of them had faced persecution in their home countries. Some of them fled violence by police and gang members. Others fled violence from their families. They’d all heard stories of being turned away at the border, and so they banded together in a caravan.
The recently confirmed secretary of the Navy says he will follow any order the president gives on transgender troops, but that “any patriot” should be allowed to serve.
The Austin Police Department admits it made a mistake after the 2016 murder of Monica Loera by first identifying her as a man and using her birth name. “Literally her friends didn’t know she was dead for days until they finally corrected the information in the paper to tell us that it had been Monica who died,” said Claire Bow, an attorney and transgender activist.
TONY Abbott’s sister has denied the same-sex marriage debate has split the Abbott family despite an ugly spat between the siblings over her first marriage. Sydney Councillor and marriage equality advocate Christine Forster yesterday accused her brother of scoring a cheap political point when he used a radio interview to reveal that she had privately “joked years ago that she’d just got herself out of one marriage — why would she be rushing into another one?”.
This is Caleb Gardiner and he recently got the boot from an accommodation he found on Craigslist because he’s gay. But, because of how BC’s human rights code works, it’s totally legal.
Approximately 133,000 LGBT workers in Indiana are vulnerable to employment discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity, according to a new report co-authored by Christy Mallory, State & Local Policy Director, and Brad Sears, David Sanders Distinguished Scholar, at the UCLA School of Law’s Williams Institute. Only 36% of Indiana’s workforce is covered by local non-discrimination laws or executive orders that prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity. The state’s non-discrimination law does not include these characteristics.
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