Tag: Title IX
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Dow Chemical, HP, Choice Hotels & Alcoa Urge Tennessee Lawmakers to Abandon Anti-Trans Student Bills
Similar to a discriminatory provision in North Carolina’s outrageous new law that’s sparked a backlash from the business community, HB 2414 and SB 2387 would force transgender students in public schools and universities to use restrooms and other facilities inconsistent with their gender identity.
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North Carolina’s Reckless Anti-LGBT Law Casts Dark Cloud Over Tonight’s NCAA Championship Game
Governor Pat McCrory’s outrageous new discriminatory law has put North Carolina at risk of being denied bids to host future NCAA and NBA events.
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Watch LGBT Advocates Insist Governor McCrory Meet With Transgender North Carolinians
New video shows HRC President Chad Griffin insisting that Governor McCrory’s chief of staff allow transgender North Carolinians to meet with the governor.
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More than 80 Major CEOs & Business Leaders Demand North Carolina Repeal Anti-LGBT Law
The Human Rights Campaign and Equality NC released a letter from dozens of major business leaders from across the country calling on NC Governor Pat McCrory and the North Carolina General Assembly to repeal radical provisions of discriminatory HB 2 in upcoming legislative session.
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Advocacy Groups File Federal Lawsuit Challenging North Carolina’s Sweeping Anti-LGBT Law
Today, Lambda Legal, the American Civil Liberties Union, ACLU of North Carolina and Equality North Carolina filed a lawsuit challenging North Carolina’s sweeping anti-LGBT law, HB 2. The case, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina against North Carolina Governor Pat McCrory, Attorney General Roy Cooper, and the University of North Carolina, is on behalf of two transgender North Carolinians, Joaquín Carcaño, a UNC-Chapel Hill employee, and Payton McGarry, a UNC-Greensboro student, and Angela Gilmore, a lesbian and North Carolina Central University law professor.
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NC Gov. Signs Radical Bill Into Law Attacking Transgender Students & Overturning LGBT Protections
New law not only rips away local non-discrimination ordinances and writes discrimination against LGBT North Carolinians into state law, but it also puts the state’s public schools at risk of losing $4.5 billion in critical federal funds under Title IX.