Author: Brooke Migdon

Record-shattering 1,380 businesses take part in annual corporate equality index

More than 1,380 businesses participated in an annual corporate equality ranking conducted by the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), the group said Thursday, a record-shattering total that includes more than 400 Fortune 500 businesses. More than 500 businesses that participated in this year’s Corporate Equality Index (CEI) received a perfect score, HRC said, despite a more…

Florida students stage walkout after reassignment of staff who allowed trans athlete to compete

Scores of students at a South Florida high school walked out of class on Tuesday after five school staffers, including the principal, were reassigned for allowing a transgender athlete to participate on the girls’ volleyball team, in violation of state law. Students at Monarch High School in Coconut Creek began marching from the school’s football…

‘Epidemic of violence’ targets transgender community, with at least 33 deaths cited in report

The Human Rights Campaign (HRC), the nation’s largest LGBTQ civil rights group, on Monday released its annual report on fatal violence against transgender and gender-nonconforming people in the U.S., describing the past year as an “epidemic of violence” targeting the community. At least 33 transgender and gender-nonconforming people were killed in the last 12 months,…

LGBTQ people targeted in more than 700 incidents since last year: Report

More than 700 incidents of violence and threats targeting LGBTQ people have occurred over the past year, including murder, harassment, assault and vandalism, according to an updated tally released Thursday by GLAAD, an LGBTQ media advocacy organization, and the Anti-Defamation League’s Center on Extremism. At least 26 transgender people since November 2022 have been killed…

Judge declines to block North Dakota’s gender-affirming care ban

A North Dakota judge has denied a request to temporarily block a state law preventing transgender minors from accessing gender-affirming medical care, leaving one of the nation’s most stringent transgender health care bans intact. District Judge Jackson Lofgren on Monday denied a temporary restraining order requested by three North Dakota families with transgender children and a…

Johnson’s strident LGBTQ views put advocates on alert

In the week since Republicans voted unanimously to elect Rep. Mike Johnson (R-La.) the next Speaker of the House, LGBTQ lawmakers and civil rights advocates have criticized the once little-known congressman’s conservative record on same-sex marriage and transgender rights and questioned his ability to lead the House on LGBTQ issues with impartiality. His background may…

House Dems call on Biden, leadership to reject spending bills with anti-LGBTQ provisions

More than 160 House Democrats accused Republicans of “hijacking” the annual appropriations process by inserting clauses that restrict the rights of LGBTQ people into must-pass spending bills. In a letter sent Wednesday to party leadership and President Biden, they said any funding agreement that includes anti-LGBTQ provisions should be rejected. At least 40 provisions in…

Tennessee families, doctor ask Supreme Court to block state’s gender-affirming health care ban

Three Tennessee families with transgender children and a doctor on Wednesday asked the Supreme Court to step in to prevent the state from enforcing a law that prevents transgender minors from accessing gender-affirming health care. The case, if accepted, would be the first gender-affirming health care case to go before the Supreme Court. The law,…