Category: USA
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Facebook Censors GLBT Historical Society’s Photo of Black Trans Man
The GLBT Historical Society strongly condemns social-media giant Facebook for removing a post on the society’s account that depicted a portrait of a Black transgender man.
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Court: School transgender bathroom policy unconstitutional
A federal appeals court ruled Wednesday that a Virginia school board’s transgender bathroom ban is unconstitutional and discriminated against a transgender male student who was barred from using the boys bathrooms in his high school.
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Judge orders U.S. State Department to issue passport to daughter of married same-sex couple
A federal judge this week ordered the State Department to recognise the birthright citizenship of a married same-sex couple’s baby daughter who was born in Canada and grant her a U.S. passport.
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Supreme Court Victory! Federal Law Protects Transgender Workers
Transgender Legal Defense & Education Fund (TLDEF) hailed today’s landmark Supreme Court ruling that transgender people cannot be fired for who they are. In a 6-to-3 ruling, the chief justices issued a sweeping decision that affirms federal law protects transgender and non-binary as well as lesbian, gay, and bisexual workers under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, rejecting the federal administration’s attempts to roll back employment protections.
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Utah becomes 19th state to ban LGBTQ conversion therapy
Utah officially banned the controversial practice on Tuesday.
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Father (30) left his son outside a closed police station because ‘he thought the boy was gay’
A father from Florida has been charged with negligent child abuse after police claim he dumped his son at the side of the road because he ‘thinks that the boy is gay.’