Tag: LGBT people
Mississippi: Major Corporations Call for Repeal of Anti-LGBT Law
The radical new law allows almost any individual or organisation to use religion as a justification to discriminate against LGBT Mississippians and their families.
TLDEF Condemns North Carolina Law Striking Down LGBT Protections and Targeting Transgender Students for Discrimination
The Transgender Legal Defense & Education Fund (TLDEF) condemns a new law passed by North Carolina lawmakers and signed by Governor Pat McCrory, which will ban transgender students in schools and all transgender people in public buildings from using bathrooms and other facilities that match who they are as male and female. The law also strikes down non-discrimination protections for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people in municipalities throughout the state and bars their future passage.
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.”
New FRA report highlights crucial role public authorities for LGBT equality
In a new report launched in the European Parliament today, the EU’s Fundamental Rights Agency (FRA) highlights that prevailing negative attitudes towards LGBT people endanger their fundamental rights and hamper efforts to counter discrimination and hate crime.
Calls on Governor Mike Pence to Support LGBT Non-Discrimination Protections
Governor Mike Pence should listen to the majority of fair-minded Hoosiers and announce his support for fully inclusive LGBT non-discrimination protections in tomorrow night’s State of the State address.