Category: USA
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Sasha Domansky tells a heartbreaking coming out story
YouTuber Sasha Domansky tells his coming out story to his religious Russian family and what a nightmare that followed.
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Pennsylvania Name Change Law Challenged on Behalf of Three Transgender Women
Transgender Legal Defense & Education Fund (TLDEF) Pro Bono partner Reed Smith in end of May 2019 filed a court challenge to Pennsylvania’s name change law, which bars name changes for people who have certain felony convictions.
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TLDEF Statement on Historic Passage of Equality Act in the U.S. House of Representatives
TLDEF releases a statement on a historic passage.
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TLDEF Statement on SCOTUS’ Decision to Hear LGBTQ Employment Discrimination Cases
TLDEF responded to news today that the Supreme Court of the United States has agreed to hear a case involving a Michigan transgender woman named Aimee Stephens who was fired from her job at a funeral home because she is transgender (R.G. & G.R. Harris Funeral Homes v. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission).
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Catholic School in Kansas Faces a Revolt for Denying a Same-Sex Couple’s Child
A Catholic school in Kansas is facing pressure to reverse its decision not to enrol a child with married same-sex parents.
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Trump administration launches global effort to end criminalisation of homosexuality
The administration is responding in part to a reported hanging of a young gay man in Iran, Trump’s top geopolitical foe.