House Republicans are planning to launch a second legislative effort to bar transgender women and girls from competing on female school sports teams, cementing the issue as a priority for the GOP ahead of 2024. The proposed “Save Women’s Sports Act” would require public K-12 schools and colleges to designate sports teams — including intramural…
Author: Brooke Migdon
Biden administration punts deadline for updated Title IX regulations to March
The Biden administration will finalize its proposed updates to Title IX, the federal civil rights law prohibiting sex-based discrimination at federally funded schools, by March, nearly a year after the administration missed its first deadline. The Education Department unveiled its initial proposal to strengthen protections for student survivors of sexual assault, as well as LGBTQ students, in…
Wisconsin governor vetoes state’s gender-affirming health care ban
Wisconsin’s Democratic Gov. Tony Evers on Wednesday vetoed legislation that sought to bar transgender minors from accessing gender-affirming health care, accusing Republican state lawmakers in a veto message of perpetuating “false, hateful, and discriminatory anti-LGBTQ policies and rhetoric in our state.” “This type of legislation, and the rhetoric beget by pursuing it, harms LGBTQ people and kids’…
California assemblyman Evan Low joins race to replace retiring Rep. Eshoo
California Democratic Assemblymember Evan Low on Tuesday launched an expected bid for Congress, jumping into the race to replace longtime Rep. Anna Eshoo (D-Calif.), who is not seeking reelection in 2024. Low, 40, would be the first openly LGBTQ congressman to represent the Bay Area and the fourth openly LGBTQ person elected to Congress from California. His…
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…
ACLU, Lambda Legal challenge sweeping Iowa education law in federal court
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Iowa and Lambda Legal on Tuesday sued to block a sweeping Iowa education law that restricts talk of LGBTQ identities in state schools, arguing in a federal lawsuit that the measure violates the constitutional rights of LGBTQ students. The groups in Tuesday’s lawsuit, filed in the Southern District…
‘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…