by Beth Holmes | Apr 9, 2021 | Education, Gender, Transgender
In 2016, Shawnee State University in Ohio instituted a school policy requiring that students be addressed by the pronouns that match their gender identity, after an Obama-era directive that schools do everything in their power to make gender-non-conforming students...
by Beth Holmes | Apr 2, 2021 | Civil Rights, Equality, Featured, Gender, Human Rights, Politics, Power LGBT, Transgender
In July 2017, former President Trump casually ordered a ban on allowing transgender troops to transition while serving in the American armed forces via his Twitter account. A panel in the Defense Department drew up official regulations, and the ban fought through the...
by admin | Feb 17, 2021 | Articles, Education, Equality, Featured, Transgender
Georgia is one of more than twenty states where gender identity is not a protected class, leaving trans men and women vulnerable in their employment, their housing, and their schools. Three cities in the state have employment protections for trans people, five...
by admin | Jan 22, 2021 | Equality, Featured, LGBTQIA+, Politics, Power LGBT, Transgender
For many transgender people, a visit to the doctor is a fraught experience. Whether it’s a teenager’s pediatrician, the nurse practitioner prescribing flu medication, or a trauma surgeon in the ER, trans people every day run into medical professionals who...
by admin | Jan 15, 2021 | Homophobia, LGBTQIA+, Politics, Power LGBT, Transgender
In 2016 in the wake of the Pulse Nightclub shooting in Orlando, then-candidate Trump started calling himself a “real friend” to the LGBT Community, and promised he would fight for LGBT rights. It was a radical stance for a Republican candidate, but let’s be...
by admin | Jan 6, 2021 | Equality, Homophobia, News, Politics, Transgender
In 2017, Addison Perry-Franks was running a computer repair shop in Scurry County, Texas, when the Republican Texas governor, Greg Abbott, tried to force a ‘bathroom bill’ through the state lawmakers, even conducting a special session (on the taxpayer...
