by Beth Huffington | Jul 28, 2021 | Civil Rights, Gender, Health, Human Rights, Intersex, LGBTQIA+ Youth, Transgender
The federal judges of two states have now blocked laws that would have prevented trans youth from seeking gender-confirming treatments and playing sports. In Arkansas, U.S. District Judge Jay Moody temporarily blocked a new law that would have gone into effect July...
by Beth Huffington | Jul 19, 2021 | Civil Rights, Gender, Human Rights, Politics, Transgender
The U.S. Navy has issued new guidance regarding LGBT service members, including bathroom rights and new protections against harassment and misgendering. In a move that takes a branch of the armed forces significantly further forward in social progress than many U.S....
by Beth Huffington | Jul 9, 2021 | Feminism, Health, Human Rights, Politics, Racism, Science, Women's Rights
Reparations are in the works for California’s surviving victims of eugenics. Up to $25,000 each for approximately 600 of the thousands of people sterilized in state hospitals and prisons, some of them only children. It would be nice to report that these...
by Beth Huffington | Jul 2, 2021 | Civil Rights, Education, Gender, Human Rights, Power LGBT, Transgender
A Virginia school board has lost a six-year fight to keep trans kids out of school bathrooms, in Monday’s Supreme Court rejection of their appeal versus Gavin Grimm. Gavin Grimm was 15 and a sophomore at Gloucester High School when school officials banned him...
by Beth Huffington | Jun 25, 2021 | Civil Rights, Equality, Human Rights, LGBT community, LGBTQIA+, LGBTQIA+ Youth, Politics, Queer Community, Religion
Discrimination in adoption cannot bar an organization from contracting with the city for adoption and foster care, ruled the U.S. Supreme Court on June 17. A Roman Catholic adoption agency has been involved in a lawsuit with the city of Philadelphia for well over a...
by Beth Huffington | Jun 21, 2021 | Human Rights, International, LGBT community, LGBTQIA+, Politics, Queer Community
Japan failed to pass a law protecting its LGBT citizens in their last chance before the 2020 Summer Olympics. In 2019, the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) in Japan campaigned hard for the queer vote, promising civil rights protections and bills promoting “correct...
