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Biden Administration Withdraws Government Support for Lawsuit That Sought to Ban Trans Athletes from Competing in High School Sports

President Joe Biden‘s administration has withdrawn government support for a Connecticut lawsuit that seeks to ban transgender athletes from competing in high school sports. The lawsuit, which was brought forward by cisgender athletes who claimed they’d been deprived of wins, state titles, and athletic opportunities in having to compete against two transgender runners, was supported…

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Opinion: What It Says About Hateful Conservative Leadership that Notre Dame President Jenkins, Trump Contract Coronavirus

A 19th-century German philosopher once asserted that the educators must be educated, the point being what was passing for knowledge and learning in the world seemed, based on the state of the world and its lack of universal well-being, perhaps more than arguably was not serving us well. If we were to stop and reflect…

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Trans Lives Matter, Too: November 2020 Will be a Reckoning on Civil Rights for All

Amidst the recent mass nationwide uprisings, dominated by the sentiments of the Black Lives Matter movement, an effective reincarnation of the Civil Rights Movement, the Trump administration has continued its efforts to deny transgender people civil rights, denying them equal protections under the law. Let’s look at just two recent examples of the Trump administration…

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Human Rights Campaign Will Sue Trump Administration for Revoking Transgender Protections

The Human Rights Campaign (HRC) has announced it will file a lawsuit against President Donald Trump’s administration after it rolled back anti-discrimination rules protecting transgender people seeking healthcare. HRC noted in a press release that “critical civil rights protections in the rule implementing Section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act (ACA)” have been impacted by…

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Opinion: Does America Really Value Equality? What Women and Transgender People Might Say

The Supreme Court ruled in the Citizens United case that corporations merited certain rights of personhood. The decision in this case became crystallized in the notorious phrase, “Corporations are people.” This year’s events insistently raise the question of which Americans enjoy the basic rights of personhood in America. How are we doing when it comes…

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Republicans Want to Remove LGBTQ Protections From New Trade Deal

First there was the historic provision in the new North American trade agreement providing protection for the LGBTQ community. Included in the proposed agreement is a requirement that the U.S., Canada and Mexico take steps to protect workers against discrimination on the basis of sex, including sexual orientation and gender identity. Then after the LGBTQ provisions…

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U.S. anti-bias law does not protect transgender workers: Justice Dept

The U.S. Department of Justice has reversed course on whether federal law banning sex discrimination in the workplace provides protections for transgender employees, saying in a memo that it does not.

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Republican Caitlyn Jenner Calls Trump’s Attack On LGBTQ Rights A ‘Disaster’

“From one Republican to another, this is a disaster,” said Jenner.

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Supreme Court Decides to Weigh in On Transgender Rights

On Friday, the Supreme Court decided to weigh in on transgender rights in the case of Gloucester County School Board vs. G.G.

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The Obama Administration Will Direct All Public Schools to Let Transgender Students Use the Bathroom That Matches Their Identity

The Obama White House takes a huge stand in the fight to expand the rights of transgender Americans.

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Mat Staver Says Transgender Rights Will Destroy Objective Reality

Mat Staver’s “moral objectivity” is anything but objective, and seems to be based on what he needs to be true in any given situation

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