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Aiding Transgender Case, Sessions Defies His Image on Civil Rights

By Carmen Chandler| 2017-10-16T09:28:02+00:00 October 16th, 2017|Hate Crimes, LGBTQ+|

WASHINGTON — The Justice Department has dispatched an experienced federal hate crimes lawyer to Iowa to help prosecute a man charged with murdering a transgender high school student last year, a highly unusual move that officials said was personally initiated by Attorney General Jeff Sessions.

In taking the

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Colorado cake maker asks Supreme Court to provide a religious liberty right to refuse gay couple

By Carmen Chandler| 2017-09-12T09:44:14+00:00 September 12th, 2017|LGBTQ+|

“Sorry, guys, I don’t make cakes for same-sex weddings.”

With that blunt comment, Jack Phillips, a baker who designs custom wedding cakes, sent two men out the door and set off a legal battle between religious liberty and gay rights that comes before the U.S. Supreme Court this fall…

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How Good Is Your Gaydar? How Good Is Your Science?

By Carmen Chandler| 2017-09-12T09:38:08+00:00 September 12th, 2017|LGBTQ+|

It was bound to make headlines: a study claiming that a computer could predict if someone is gay or straight, based on a photo. But the story has moved beyond headlines, to gay rights advocates charging that the study is scientifically invalid and an author of the paper saying he’s under unfair personal

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Mattis Says Panel Will Study Trump’s Transgender Military Ban

By Carmen Chandler| 2017-08-30T10:36:22+00:00 August 30th, 2017|LGBTQ+|

WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Jim Mattis kicked President Trump’s proposed ban on transgender people serving in the military down the road, announcing that transgender service members will continue to be allowed to serve pending the results of a study.

In a statement on

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Texas Transgender Bathroom Bill Falters Amid Mounting Opposition

By Carmen Chandler| 2017-08-08T09:05:12+00:00 August 8th, 2017|LGBTQ+|

AUSTIN, Tex. — With little more than a week left in Texas’ 30-day special legislative session, a barrage of corporate advertising and activism has the potential to sink legislation restricting transgender bathroom use that has been a flash point in the state’s culture wars.

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‘Ask me about my pronouns!’ Genderqueer hairstylist provides a safe space for LGBTQ youth in a mobile salon

By Carmen Chandler| 2017-08-01T08:43:44+00:00 August 1st, 2017|LGBTQ+|

The young, black transgender woman in hairstylist Madin Lopez’s chair used to hate getting her hair cut. Barbers always questioned her gender identity. They always cut her hair short. She’d always be disappointed.

But on a recent, sweltering afternoon, Lopez put a small plait across 23-year-old Kaityanna Phillips’ forehead. Phillips had been growing her hair

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In One Day, Trump Administration Lands 3 Punches Against Gay Rights

By Carmen Chandler| 2017-07-28T09:21:00+00:00 July 28th, 2017|Employment & Housing, Intergroup Relations, LGBTQ+, Police & Community|

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration abruptly waded into the culture wars over gay rights this week, signaling in three separate actions that it will use the powers of the federal government to roll back civil rights for gay and transgender people.

Without being asked, the Justice Department

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Justice Dept. Weighs In Against Protections for Gays in the Workplace

By Carmen Chandler| 2017-07-27T08:50:29+00:00 July 27th, 2017|Employment & Housing, LGBTQ+|

The Department of Justice has filed court papers arguing that a major federal civil rights law does not protect employees from discrimination based on sexual orientation in a case now being considered by a New York appeals court.

The department’s decision to file a brief in the case

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Trump-Pence Administration Asserts Civil Rights Laws Won’t Apply to LGBTQ People

By Carmen Chandler| 2017-07-27T08:29:23+00:00 July 27th, 2017|LGBTQ+|

Today, HRC issued the following statement in response to an amicus brief filed by the Department of Justice arguing that Title VII does not protect lesbian, gay, or bisexual people on the basis of sex:

“Attacks against the LGBTQ community at all levels of government continue to pour in from the Trump-Pence Administration,” said Sarah Warbelow,

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Trump Says That Transgender People Will Not Be Allowed in the Military

By Carmen Chandler| 2017-07-26T09:14:42+00:00 July 26th, 2017|LGBTQ+|

WASHINGTON — President Trump announced on Wednesday that the United States will not “accept or allow” transgender people in the United States military, saying American forces “must be focused on decisive and overwhelming victory” and could not afford to accommodate them.

Mr. Trump made the surprise declaration in

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