Tag: transgender
U.S. Justice Department Says HB 2 Violates Federal Law, Gives Gov. McCrory Monday Deadline
Today the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) and Equality NC responded to news that the U.S. Department of Justice has determined North Carolina’s discriminatory HB 2 violates federal civil rights law, including Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Title IX of the Education Amendments Act of 1972.
Oxford Ala. City Council Retreats, Votes to Repeal Shameful Anti-Transgender Ordinance
First municipality in the nation to pass a discriminatory law attacking the transgender community quickly kills it.
Swedish Skatteverket forced to change their policy with transgender people
The legal representative RFSL cooperates, lawyer Kerstin Burman, has won a court case against the Tax Agency (Skatteverket). This time in a case with a man by the Tax registered as “divorced partner, instead of” divorced “, which among other things revealed the man’s change of legal gender.
IKEA, AIG Join Growing List of Nearly 200 Major Business Leaders Against HB 2
Momentum in North Carolina: IKEA, AIG Join Growing List of Nearly 200 Major Business Leaders Against HB 2 as McCrory & Berger Double Down on Discrimination.
Ted Cruz Continues False Smear Campaign Against Transgender Americans
Sunday, the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), America’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) civil rights organisation, released the following statement after Senator Ted Cruz continued his transphobic attacks on NBC’s Meet the Press and CNN’s State of the Union Sunday morning.
GLAAD’s finds glaring lack of LGBT images in film releases
GLAAD, the world’s lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) media advocacy organisation, today released its fourth annual Studio Responsibility Index (SRI), a report that maps the quantity, quality, and diversity of LGBT people in films released by the seven largest motion picture studios and their subsidiaries during the 2015 calendar year.