Day: April 9, 2015
Praises White House For Stance Against Conversion Therapy
The Transgender Legal Defense & Education Fund (TLDEF) commends the White House for speaking out against so-called conversion therapy for LGBT minors. Conversion therapy is a widely discredited practice that attempts to change an individual’s sexual orientation or gender identity. Late yesterday the Obama Administration made its opinion known in response to a White House “We the People” petition calling for a ban on the practice. The petition, signed by more than 120,000 people, came in response to the tragic loss of a transgender teen from Ohio named Leelah Alcorn who died by suicide in late December. The petition says that prior to her death Leelah’s parents “forced her to attend conversion therapy, pulled her out of school and isolated her in an attempt to change her gender identity.”
Åre Winter Pride – A mountain Pride with unique business day seminar
With just a week left until the ski resort Åre turns in to the colours of a rainbow the whole village are preparing for the biggest winter reinvention event this season. Last time Åre organised a similar event was 2002 when the Scandinavian Gay Days where up and running.
EEOC Ruling Affirming Right to Bathroom Access For Transgender People
The Transgender Legal Defense & Education Fund (TLDEF) strongly commends a ruling by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) which found that the Army discriminated against a transgender civilian employee when it required her to use a single-user restroom at work and reprimanded her for using the women’s restroom when the single-user restroom was unavailable. The EEOC concluded that Tamara Lusardi, a Software Quality Assurance Specialist in the U.S. Army Aviation and Missile Research, Development and Engineering Center in Huntsville, Alabama, “was subjected to disparate treatment on the basis of sex” in violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
‘From rage to tears’ the impact of homophobia in Haringey
A lesbian couple have told of their constant struggle with homophobia in Haringey.