Tag: transgender
HRC and Advocates Across Nation Host Readings of “I Am Jazz” to Support Transgender Youth
State legislation targeting transgender people — including new North Carolina law — underscores importance of understanding and compassion, themes illuminated in transgender teen Jazz Jennings’ book.
Oxford Ala. City Council Approves Horrific and Unprecedented Anti-Transgender Law
Ordinance makes using appropriate restroom a crime punishable by six months in jail or $500, and raises serious questions about how law will be enforced.
Swedish government want to pay compensation to force sterilised transgender people
Today, on 27 April, the Swedish Public Health Gabriel Wikström (S) that the government decided to initiate a new law that will allow financial compensation to the persons force sterilised result of previous claims in the transgender act.
Hundreds of Thousands Call for Repeal of North Carolina Anti-LGBT Law As Legislature Returns
Nearly 190,000 signatures demanding the repeal of North Carolina’s anti-LGBT House Bill 2 were delivered to the office of Gov. Pat McCrory today by a collection of civil rights, faith, business, and advocacy groups as the state legislature returns for the first time since it introduced and passed the law limiting legal protections for gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people in a one-day special session on March 23.
HRC Blasts Ted Cruz’s New Transphobic Ad
Last week, the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), America’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) civil rights organisation, released the following statement on Ted Cruz’s despicable new campaign ad attacking transgender people.
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.