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May 28, 2019
Supreme Court Allows School District Restroom Policies Supporting Transgender Students to Stand
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court today declined to hear Doe v. Boyertown Area School District, allowing school districts to continue to support transgender students by allowing the...
Issue Areas: LGBTQ Rights
Court case: Doe v. Boyertown Area School District
May 24, 2019
ºìÐÓÊÓƵ Responds to Proposed Changes to Health Care Rights Law
WASHINGTON — The Department of Health and Human Services proposed a change to the Health Care Rights Law, Section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act, today in an attempt to roll bac...
Issue Areas: LGBTQ Rights
May 22, 2019
HUD Moves to Allow Anti-Trans Discrimination in Federally Funded Homeless Shelters
WASHINGTON — The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) announced a proposal today to roll back protections for transgender people experiencing homelessness, allowing ...
Issue Areas: LGBTQ Rights Religious Liberty
May 22, 2019
ºìÐÓÊÓƵ, Same-Sex Couple Seek to Join Lawsuit to Keep a License to Discriminate Out of Michigan’s Child Welfare System
DETROIT — Kristy and Dana Dumont are prospective foster parents who were turned away from two taxpayer-funded child welfare agencies in 2016 and 2017 because those agencies had a...
Issue Areas: LGBTQ Rights
Court case: Buck v. Gordon
May 17, 2019
House of Representatives Passes Equality Act In Major Step For LGBTQ Rights
WASHINGTON — The House of Representatives passed The Equality Act (H.R. 5) by a 236-173 margin today. This vote marks the first time in U.S. history that a chamber of Congress ha...
Issue Areas: LGBTQ Rights
Apr 22, 2019
Appeals Court Rejects a License to Discriminate in Child Welfare
PHILADELPHIA, Pa. — A federal appeals court ruled today that the city of Philadelphia is entitled to require its taxpayer-funded child welfare agencies to abide by its nondiscrim...
Issue Areas: LGBTQ Rights
Court case: Fulton v. City of Philadelphia
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