Ulster County is between Albany and New York City and contains the cities of Poughkeepsie and Kingston. A committee of the County Legislature unanimously endorsed a resolution to schedule a July 11 public hearing on a proposed law to protect people from being discriminated against on the basis of their gender identity.
Bill C-16, the Canadian Human Rights Act passed the Senate on Thursday and thus will become law with Royal Assent later this year.
The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that the Kenosha, WI, Unified School District violated the rights of a trans boy, Ash Whitaker, when it refused to let him use the boys' bathroom.
Austin film director Richard Linklater (Slacker, Dazed and Confused, Before Sunrise, The Newton Boys, Waking Life, Tape, School of Rock, Before Sunset, Bad News Bears (2005), Fast Food Nation, Before Midnight, Boyhood, Everybody Wants Some!!) has created a public service announcement opposing SB 6.
Utah civil rights attorney Samuel Wolf has responded to a SCOTUS brief filed in the case of Grimm v Gloucester County School District by the Mormon church with an op-ed in the Salt Lake City Tribune. In his editorial Wolfe denies the position that religious freedom is denied when transgender people are accorded rights.
The Movement Advancement Project has released a new report, Mapping transgender equality in the United States.
MAP found that 31 states have low or negative ratings for protecting transgender rights.
The ACLU's Chase Strangio has written a state of the community report for transgender people and our allies.
Across the country, before state legislative sessions have even convened, lawmakers are making clear that transgender people will again be the relentless targets of discriminatory legislation.
The Williams Institute has completed a new report, this time on public support for transgender rights in 23 countries.
The churches gathered together by the so-called Alliance Defending Freedom to challenge the state's transgender legal protections are withdrawing their legal challenge.
Governor John Bel Edwards (D) and Attorney General Jeff Landry (R) spent yesterday before Judge Todd Hernandez in Baton Rouge arguing Bel Edwards' executive order prohibiting discrimination against LGBT people in state government.
