Tip Sheet for Journalists Covering Trans Student Athlete Bans
This morning, the Arizona House of Representatives passed an extreme and regressive bill to ban trans youth from participating in school sports – and potentially require invasive medical screenings for all young athletes competing in sporting events. This bill...
In Sweeping Attack on Lives of LGBTQ People and People Living with HIV, HHS Gives Green Light to Discriminate
Today the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced that they are stripping nondiscrimination protections, including protections based on sexual orientation and gender identity, in all HHS grants, which are composed of taxpayer dollars. The new proposal...
LGBTQ, Civil Rights and Immigration Justice Organizations Call for Release of LGBTQ, PLWHIV Currently in Immigration Prisons
Complaint submitted to Department of Homeland Security details horrifying abuse of 19 individuals at eight immigrant prisons around the United States Read the updated complaint here. ***Update as of 10/15/19: The complaint was amended to reflect that an additional 46...
TLC Strongly Opposes Proposed Rules by Department of Labor’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance
Last Friday, Transgender Law Center submitted a comment in strong opposition to the proposed rules by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance that would amend section 204(c) of Executive Order 11246. The proposed rule would allow federal...
Record-Breaking 132,400 People Have Spoken Out To #ProtectTransHealth From Trump
As of the August 13 deadline for public comments on the Trump administration’s proposed rollback of a regulation protecting transgender people’s access to health care, a national coalition of civil rights organizations collected over 132,400 comments in defense of...get connected
