Tag: anti-transgender
Stop Anti-Trans Delegate Bethany Kozma from Representing the U.S at CSW
Following in last year’s footsteps, the Trump administration has yet again appointed a known anti-trans activist to its official delegation to the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women (CSW). The CSW is the largest meeting of governments, UN agencies, civil society, and other stakeholders, on progressing women’s rights and gender justice globally.
HRC Launches Parents for Transgender Equality Council
Yesterday, the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), America’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer civil rights organisation, will launch its groundbreaking, new Parents for Transgender Equality Council, a coalition of the nation’s leading parent-advocates working for equality and fairness for transgender people. The council’s launch begins HRC’s commemoration of Transgender Week of Awareness, dedicated to the progress, continued challenges, and unfinished work in the fight for transgender equality.
HRC and Equality NC Release Statements on HB 2
Today, the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), America’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) civil rights organisation, and Equality NC, the statewide organisation working to secure equal rights and justice for LGBTQ North Carolinians, rejected calls for Charlotte’s City Council to rescind a non-discrimination ordinance before any consideration is made of changes to HB 2, the vile law that has written anti-transgender discrimination into law and prevented local communities from passing their own LGBTQ non-discrimination measures.
Powerful HRC Foundation Video Features Proud Dads of Transgender Children Talking About Equality
Yesterday, the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) Foundation, the educational arm of America’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer civil rights organisation, released a first-of-its-kind web video exclusively featuring fathers of transgender children describing their experiences.
Days before RNC Arrives in Cleveland, City Officials Extend Crucial Protect
Vote comes as RNC policy committee proposes horrific anti-LGBTQ provisions for the 2016 GOP platform.
Hateful Anti-Transgender Flyer Distributed by KKK in Alabama Neighborhood
Today, the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) Alabama responded to reports of disturbing anti-transgender flyers being circulated in a Dothan, Ala., neighbourhood. They appear to have been distributed by the Loyal White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan as a recruiting tool.