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Under new law, training on transgender issues, sexual orientation will be required of many seeking to become law enforcement officers

By Carmen Chandler| 2019-01-24T10:45:01+00:00 January 24th, 2019|LGBTQ+, Police & Community|

Those training to become law enforcement officers and public safety dispatchers in California will soon learn about lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender communities in the academy under legislation signed by Gov. Jerry Brown last year.

Assembly Bill 2504, which was authored by Assemblyman Evan Low (D-Cupertino), also ensures optional LGBTQ-specific educational training for officers already on

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How transgender inmates are treated has become a problem for police, so here’s what’s being done about it

By Carmen Chandler| 2019-01-24T10:44:14+00:00 January 24th, 2019|LGBTQ+, Police & Community|

Complaints from two transgender women who were housed on the male floor of the Long Beach City Jail have spurred local police to establish a new policy on the proper treatment of transgender people who’ve been taken into custody or who are encountered by officers in the field.

The new policy marks the latest move among

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TRUMP’S TRANSGENDER MILITARY BAN COULD DISQUALIFY ONE MILLION AMERICANS FROM SERVICE

By Carmen Chandler| 2019-01-23T08:55:55+00:00 January 23rd, 2019|LGBTQ+|

The Supreme Court voted 5–4 Tuesday to enact the Trump administration’s policy prohibiting people with a gender identity that differs from their biological sex from serving in the military, while cases challenging the ban continue in lower courts.

The ban excludes those who are already serving in the military and those who are willing to serve

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Supreme Court Revives Transgender Ban for Military Service

By Carmen Chandler| 2019-01-22T09:43:37+00:00 January 22nd, 2019|LGBTQ+|

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Tuesday revived the Trump administration’s policy of barring most transgender people from serving in the military. In a brief, unsigned order, the justices temporarily allowed the ban to go into effect while cases challenging it move forward.

The vote was 5 to 4, with the court’s five conservative

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Is banning trans troops a legal tactic to reverse civil rights?

By Carmen Chandler| 2019-01-14T16:26:23+00:00 January 14th, 2019|Intergroup Relations, LGBTQ+|

U.S. Supreme Court cases involving the discrimination of trans people, either by banning them from the military or firing them because of their sex, have much more at stake than is often perceived. Chase Strangio, an attorney at ACLU’s LGBT and HIV project, spoke to NewsHour Weekend’s Ivette Feliciano, explaining that they can

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Blaze Bernstein’s killing one year later: How his death has impacted Orange County and beyond

By Carmen Chandler| 2019-01-10T09:09:47+00:00 January 10th, 2019|Hate Crimes, LGBTQ+|

On Jan. 10, 2018, Orange County Sheriff’s Department investigators found 19-year-old Blaze Bernstein’s body in a shallow grave near Borrego Park in Foothill Ranch.

Officials determined he had been stabbed 20 times, killed in an act of rage. Bernstein was gay and Jewish, the grandson of a Holocaust survivor.

And for most of 2018, a year

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Independent Autopsy of Transgender Asylum Seeker Who Died in ICE Custody Shows Signs of Abuse

By Carmen Chandler| 2018-11-28T09:30:26+00:00 November 28th, 2018|Immigration, LGBTQ+, Police & Community|

A transgender woman who died in the custody of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency appeared to have been physically abused before her death in May from dehydration, along with complications from H.I.V., according to an independent autopsy released this week.

The finding in the death of the woman, Roxsana Hernandez Rodriguez,

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‘Transgender’ Could Be Defined Out of Existence Under Trump Administration

By Carmen Chandler| 2018-10-22T09:33:11+00:00 October 22nd, 2018|LGBTQ+|

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration is considering narrowly defining gender as a biological, immutable condition determined by genitalia at birth, the most drastic move yet in a governmentwide effort to roll back recognition and protections of transgender people under federal civil rights law.

A series of decisions by the Obama administration loosened

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Searching for Middle Ground

By Carmen Chandler| 2018-09-28T09:46:32+00:00 September 28th, 2018|Education, LGBTQ+|

Azusa Pacific University, a private, evangelical Christian university in California, published a revised statement on human sexuality that no longer forbids romantic same-sex relationships as long as both parties abstain from sex. The new statement has social and legal implications for the university and comes a time of pressure

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For Many L.G.B.T. Migrants, North of the Border Is No Refuge

By Carmen Chandler| 2018-07-11T08:45:10+00:00 July 11th, 2018|Immigration, LGBTQ+|

TIJUANA, Mexico — Jade Quintanilla had come to the northernmost edge of Mexico from El Salvador looking for help and safety, but five months had passed since she had arrived in this border town, and she was still too scared to cross into the United States and make her request for asylum.

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