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Anti-LGBT group submits signatures for ballot measure to overturn transgender...
A new conservative coalition in California called Privacy for All Students says it has submitted more than 600,000 signatures to put a popular initiative on the November 2014 ballot that would repeal a...
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We don’t have the chance to cover transgender issues as much as we’d like to here at EqualityOnTrial–there’s so much marriage equality news that there aren’t enough posts in the day!–but there was an...
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Trans women win North Carolina legal challenges surrounding name changes
A little bit of transgender rights legal news this morning: two trans women have succeeded in their legal quests to challenge a state law limiting how many times individuals can legally change their...
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Repeal of California law protecting transgender student rights fails to...
CaliforniaAn attempt to repeal a new California law aimed at advancing the rights of transgender students has failed to get enough signatures to appear on the state ballot. EqualityOnTrial has written...
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Equality news round-up: what happens if marriage equality loses at the...
It’s time for marriage equality. Attribution: JEWEL SAMAD/AFP/Getty Images- The Washington Blade looks at what happens if the Supreme Court upholds the marriage bans. – Transgender youth will be...
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Equality news round-up: Anti-gay Alabama bill dies, and more
- The New York Times editorial board calls on the Pentagon to allow open transgender military service. – The Human Rights Campaign (HRC), in an internal report looked at several of its diversity and...
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Equality news round-up: Transgender rights edition
Defense Secretary Ashton Carter. Attribution: defense.gov- A hospital in Washington DC is accused of anti-transgender discrimination. – The Pentagon has officially announced that it will add sexual...
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Equality news round up: A look back at the decision to move forward on...
- Buzzfeed reports on the 2005 decision of some LGBT groups to move forward on marriage equality. – The trial against JONAH, an anti-LGBT group that performs so-called “conversion therapy”, is still...
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Equality news round-up: News on federal employees, and more
- A coalition has been launched to fight against an anti-transgender ballot initiative in California. – Federal employees’ health plans will be required to cover healthcare needs for people who are...
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Equality news round-up: Post marriage equality decision orders, and more
- The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals has asked for letters from all parties to the challenges to marriage bans in Mississippi, Texas, and Louisiana, regarding how to proceed now that the Supreme Court...
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News round-up and open thread
There’s not much news going on at the moment but we will report on any new developments. The one big news item Cokes from the Fourth Circuit: the Obama administration has filed a brief supporting a...
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Equality news round-up: News from Michigan and Texas
– On November 4, an ACLU challenge to a Michigan policy making it harder for transgender people to change their gender markers on their IDs heads into court. – Yesterday, the US Supreme Court denied...
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Equality news round-up: Election edition
– The Houston Equal Rights Ordinance (HERO) saw a devastating loss last night in the polls. Anti-transgender sentiment won. Please post other election updates or other news in the comments. The post...
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READ IT HERE: Government files motion to dismiss in Chelsea Manning’s...
Defense Secretary Ashton Carter. Attribution: defense.govThe government has filed a motion to dismiss the case filed by Chelsea Manning, who is seeking medical care related to her gender, as well as...
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News round up and open thread
– The Oklahoma Supreme Court has written a decision recognizing the parental rights of unmarried same-sex couples. – In Paul Hard’s Alabama marriage case, the district court has refused to keep the...
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READ IT HERE: Defendants’ brief in case challenging anti-trans bathroom...
Fourth Circuit mapThe defendants’ brief in a teenager’s challenge to his school’s bathroom policy has been filed. The plaintiff’s brief, in addition to arguing against the school’s policy, also...
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Open thread
The only recent news is that the Fourth Circuit will hear arguments in the case of the boy who is banned from using the correct bathroom from his school on January 27. The appeals court begins oral...
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Round up and open thread
– Mississippi’s governor has signed a sweeping new anti-LGBT law. – In other news from Mississippi, the state’s same-sex adoption ban was struck down last week by a federal judge. The case will move...
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Equality news round-up: Mississippi declines to appeal initial ruling in...
– A city in Alabama that recently passed the harshest anti-transgender bathroom ordinance in the country will possibly repeal it. – Equality Case Files notes that the time to appeal the ruling...
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Equality news round-up: Good news from Alabama, North Carolina, and more
– Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) is suing local, state, and federal agencies for enforcing the law regarding transgender bathroom use in an agreement with an Illinois school district. – Oxford,...
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