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Legal Wrap: Another Grand Jury Fails to Indict, Supreme Court Ponders Online...
Legal Wrap is a weekly round-up of key legal reproductive rights and justice news. Another grand jury failed to indict a police officer in the murder of an unarmed Black person, this time in New York...
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Justice for Leelah Alcorn Goes Beyond Standing Against ‘Conversion Therapy’
The death of Leelah Alcorn, a 17-year-old trans girl whose online suicide note went viral over the last two weeks, has ignited a long-overdue conversation about transphobia among advocates and members...
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Girl Scouts Council Returns $100,000 From Anti-Transgender Donor
The Girl Scouts council of Western Washington returned a sizable grant this week when it was asked by the donor to ensure that no funds would be used to support transgender girls. Though the national...
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Laws to Protect LGBTQ Students Fail to Gain Traction on Federal or State Levels
Legislation that was intended to prevent discrimination and harassment of LGBTQ students in public schools failed to pass in the Senate this month, despite bipartisan support. Similar legislation...
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Proposed Wisconsin Bill Would Discriminate Against Transgender Youth
Two Wisconsin Republican lawmakers proposed a bill this month that would keep transgender students from using the restrooms designated for the gender with which they identify. News of the planned...
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Illinois School District Claims ‘Privacy’ in Transgender Discrimination Case
Federal education officials found this week that Illinois’ Township High School District 211 is discriminating against a transgender student on the basis of her sex. This is the first case of its kind...
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The Obama Administration’s Slow, Steady March Toward Transgender Rights
The repeal of Houston’s equal rights ordinance last week certainly felt like a step backwards for equality advocates. In May 2014, the Houston City Council passed the law, known as HERO, to ban...
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Illinois School District Reaches Controversial Agreement on Transgender...
Illinois’ Township High School District 211 reached an agreement with the Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) this week that will allow a transgender teen to use the locker room...
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Transgender Student Maintains Locker Room Access in Illinois District
Days after a suburban Illinois school district reached a controversial agreement with the federal government about a transgender student’s locker room usage, school officials again heard arguments in a...
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South Dakota Governor Considers GOP-Led Attack on Transgender Students
South Dakota this week became the first state to pass a bill banning transgender students from using public school restrooms and locker rooms that correspond with their gender identity. South Dakota’s...
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South Dakota GOP Governor Vetoes Discriminatory Bathroom Bill
South Dakota Gov. Dennis Daugaard (R) this week vetoed a bill that would prohibit transgender students from using the school bathrooms and locker rooms that align with their gender identity. HB 1008...
View ArticleTennessee Republican Shelves Bathroom Discrimination Bill
A Tennessee lawmaker has withdrawn a bill that requires students in the state’s public schools, colleges, and universities to use restrooms based on “the sex indicated on the student’s original birth...
View ArticleAppeals Court: Transgender Student Can Sue for Bathroom Access
A federal appeals court on Tuesday ruled that a transgender high school student can proceed with his lawsuit against a Virginia school district, arguing that the school board’s decision to ban him from...
View ArticleLaw Center: Transgender Student Forced to Use Separate Bathroom
Wisconsin transgender teenager Ash Whitaker recently made national headlines for winning his right to run for prom king. Now he’s fighting another battle with the Kenosha Unified School District....
View ArticleFourth Circuit Rejects Request to Rehear Ruling in Favor of Transgender High...
A federal appeals court on Tuesday refused to rehear a case involving transgender student Gavin Grimm’s battle with his school board for the right to use the boys’ bathroom and locker room facilities...
View ArticleTen More States Fight White House on Transgender Equality in Schools
Ten additional states have sued the Obama administration over federal guidance advising public schools to allow transgender students to use bathrooms that align with their gender identity. Nebraska,...
View ArticleTexas Court Greenlights Discrimination Against Transgender Students
A federal judge in Texas on Sunday issued a preliminary injunction barring the Obama administration from enforcing guidelines designed to protect transgender students from discrimination in schools....
View ArticleTrans Lives Depend on Resisting ‘Unlikely’ Partnerships
The U.S. Supreme Court will soon hear oral arguments in its first major trans rights lawsuit. In that case, Gavin Grimm, a transgender high school student, sued the Gloucester County School Board in...
View ArticleTrump Administration Ready to Ditch Transgender Student Protections (Updated)
UPDATE, February 23, 9:45 a.m.: The Department of Justice and the Department of Education on Wednesday evening issued a joint directive reversing President Obama’s protections for transgender students....
View ArticleTitle IX Protects Trans Students, No Matter What the Trump Administration...
The minute Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III was confirmed as U.S. attorney general, the Trump administration set its sights on rolling back civil rights gains of the last 40 years. And it started with...
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