Tag: discrimination
NC Gov. Signs Radical Bill Into Law Attacking Transgender Students & Overturning LGBT Protections
New law not only rips away local non-discrimination ordinances and writes discrimination against LGBT North Carolinians into state law, but it also puts the state’s public schools at risk of losing $4.5 billion in critical federal funds under Title IX.
Only in America : Tennessee Senate Committee Advances Legislative Assault on Transgender Students
Similar to an extreme measure vetoed by South Dakota governor, the bill would force transgender students in public schools and universities to use restrooms and other facilities inconsistent with their gender identity.
Gov. McCrory and Legislature Begin Costly Special Session to Overturn LGBT Equality Measure
At $42,000 a day, anti-LGBT NC Gov. Pat McCrory and conservative state lawmakers are hell-bent on burning tax dollars and stripping local control from Charlotte’s elected leaders.
Only In America : Kansas Sends Legislative Attack on LGBT College Students to Governor
America’s largest LGBT civil rights organisation urges Governor Sam Brownback to veto legislation that would put LGBT college students at even greater risk of unfair and unjust discrimination.
National Child Welfare Advocates Issue Letter Opposing Nebraska ’s Anti-LGBT Adoption Bill
The Human Rights Campaign (HRC), America’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) civil rights organisation today released a letter from leading national child welfare agencies opposing a bill in the Nebraska Unicam, LB 975, which would enshrine discrimination into Nebraska law by allowing taxpayer-funded adoption agencies to reject prospective parents based on “the child placing agency’s sincerely held religious beliefs.”
Anti-LGBT Bill Advances in Kansas Allowing Student Groups to Discriminate, Exclude LGBT Members
The Human Rights Campaign (HRC), America’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) civil rights organisation yesterday sharply condemned SB 175, a bill that passed in the Kansas House yesterday by a vote of 80-39 that would put LGBT college students at risk of discrimination.