Tag: South Carolina
Intersex Infant Surgery Settlement Highlights Regulatory Gaps
A legal settlement in South Carolina last week will award US$ 440,000 to a 12-year-old intersex child, born with sex characteristics not quite typically male or female, who was operated on as an infant to make his body appear like a girl. The surgery was irreversible, medically unnecessary, and traumatising for the child, who grew up to identify as a boy.
HRC Hails Historic Fed. Court Decision Upholding Civil Rights Protections for Transgender Students
Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals decision affirms U.S. Department of Education position HRC says North Carolina must immediately restore rights to transgender students, reiterates urgent need to repeal HB 2.
Settlement Reached in Landmark Federal Lawsuit Against South Carolina DMV on Behalf of Transgender Teen
The Transgender Legal Defense & Education Fund (TLDEF) announces a settlement in a historic federal lawsuit against the South Carolina Department of Motor Vehicles on behalf of Chase Culpepper. Chase is a transgender girl who was targeted for discrimination in March 2014 when she attempted to get her first driver’s license. She was told by DMV employees that she could not take her photo unless she removed the makeup that she wears on a regular basis. They told her that she needed to “look male” in her license photo and refused to provide her with her driver’s license if she did not remove the makeup she was wearing.
Openly gay athlete speaks out after school calls homosexuality a sin
A college in South Carolina with at least two openly gay athletes has issued a statement condemning homosexuality.
USA : Federal Lawsuit against South Carolina DMV on Behalf of Gender Non-conforming Teen who was Forced to Remove Makeup for His Driver’s License Photo
TLDEF today filed a federal lawsuit against the South Carolina Department of Motor Vehicles on behalf of a 16-year-old gender non-conforming teen who was targeted for discrimination last March. When he attempted to get his first driver’s license, Chase Culpepper was told by the DMV that he could not take his license photo unless he removed the makeup that he wears on a regular basis.