Tag: SPLC
#NoMoore : HRC Renews Call to Censure and Remove Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore
At press conference today, Moore also attacked transgender people, calling them “mentally ill’.
HRC, National Organisations Target “Conversion Therapy” Quacks with Historic FTC Fraud Complaint
Today, the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), the National Center for Lesbian Rights (NCLR), and the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) filed a federal consumer fraud complaint against People Can Change, an organisation that preys on vulnerable LGBT people and families by using damaging and discredited claims that it can change an individual’s sexual orientation or gender identity.
First Federal Bill to Prevent Dangerous Anti-LGBT Conversion Therapy Introduced in Congress
Today, Congressman Ted W. Lieu (D-CA) will introduce the “Therapeutic Fraud Prevention Act” – the first federal legislation to prohibit the practice of providing “conversion therapy” to any person in exchange for monetary compensation or advertising such services.
Justice for Jeydon: Transgender Student Won’t Be Barred from Senior Yearbook
Saturday the La Feria School Board decided to allow the formal tuxedo senior portrait of Jeydon Loredo to appear in the yearbook, after previously forbidding it because Jeydon is transgender.
Top Anti-Marriage Donor in Maryland is Active in White Supremacist, Secessionist Causes
The Human Rights Campaign, the nation’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) civil rights organisation, is calling on the Maryland Marriage Alliance to return the $10,000 donation of Michael Peroutka, an active white supremacist and secessionist sympathiser who was one of the three largest individual donors to the campaign against marriage equality in Maryland.