Tag: Chad Griffin
McCrory’s HB 2 Draws Rebuke from American Academy of Pediatrics; AAP Calls for Repeal of Harmful Law
Today, the Human Rights Campaign, America’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) civil rights organisation, called on North Carolina Governor Pat McCrory and state lawmakers to heed a warning from the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) about the dangers HB 2 poses to youth across the state.
Missouri Momentum: Execs from Time Warner, T-Mobile, Starwood, & Others Call for Defeat of SJR 39
Missouri Momentum: Execs from Time Warner, T-Mobile, Starwood, Etsy, and Other Major Corporations Join in Urging Lawmakers to Stop Anti-LGBT SJR 39.
Tennessee: Anti-Transgender Student Bill Will Not Pass This Year
Yesterday, the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), America’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) civil rights organisation, responded to the news that the sponsor of HB 2414 announced plans to pull the discriminatory bill from consideration for this year. The outrageous legislation would have forced transgender students to use restrooms and other facilities inconsistent with their gender identity.
Deja Vu: Pat McCrory Echoes Disastrous Pence-style Defence of Anti-LGBT Laws on Meet the Press
Pat McCrory says he will not repeal HB 2’s attack on transgender equality.
Additional Companies Call for Repeal of HB 2, Despite NC Gov McCrory’s Executive Order
Today, the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), America’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) civil rights organisation, and Equality NC, the state organisation working to secure equal rights and justice for LGBT North Carolinians, announced that executives from the American Express Company, AXA Financial Inc., Bloomberg L.P. ,Capital One, Classical American Homes Preservation Trust, Campbell Soup Company, CohnReznick LLP, CrowdRise, eMaint Enterprises, LLC, Ernst & Young LLP, the Estée Lauder Companies, Inc., John Hancock Financial, Kohler Co., Logitech, Plum Organics, RBC Capital Markets, REI, Strava Inc., The Hartford, Time Warner Cable, United Airlines, Visa Inc. and Williams-Sonoma, Inc. have signed onto an open letter that now includes more than 160 leading CEOs and business leaders urging Governor Pat McCrory and the North Carolina General Assembly to repeal the radical provisions in the deeply discriminatory law that was rammed through the legislature on March 23rd. These companies are continuing their support after Governor McCrory announced an executive order that does nothing to fix the discriminatory provisions signed into law through HB 2.
UNC President Orders Campuses to Violate Federal Law and Discriminate Against Transgender Students
Memo directs University of North Carolina chancellors to comply with Gov. McCrory’s discriminatory state law forcing trans students to use restrooms and other facilities inconsistent with their gender identity.