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Gavin Grimm made national news in 2018 when he filed a lawsuit against his school to use the bathroom aligned with his gender. In a win for Grimm, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia denied a motion to dismiss the case. A hearing is now scheduled…
During the time that Barack Obama was president, the government granted blanket permission to embassies overseas to fly the pride flag during June, LGBTQ Pride Month. But there’s someone new in the White House and times have changed. According to NBC News, U.S. diplomats were told they can display the…
Since 2014, at least 110 transgender women have been killed, according to the Human Rights Campaign – but only 42 percent of those murder investigations actually arrested someone. And yet, about 61 percent of murder cases across the general public results in an arrest, according to the FBI. The statistics only…
The monument hasn’t been commissioned yet, but LGBT rights activists Sylvia Rivera and Marsha P. Johnson will be honored for their organization that helps homeless gay youths and their leadership in the 1969 Stonewall rebellion. The monument, which will be installed in Greenwich Village, is part of a wider program…
Black transgender woman Muhlaysia Booker was involved in a minor traffic accident a little over a month ago. She was attacked shortly after the accident by a mob when the other driver pulled a gun on Booker and refused to let her leave until she paid for the damages. Video…
Transgender students in the Pennsylvania Boyertown Area School District are protected for now. They can continue to use bathrooms that align with their gender identity after the Supreme Court decided Tuesday not to hear the case. The conservative Christian Alliance Defending Freedom represented a group of students in the casesaying…
Over 12,000 people and counting have signed a Change.Org petition started by the father of a transgender student in Fort Wayne, Ind., attending Homestead High School. The student has been going by the name Wyatt for the last three years at his high school. He is now a senior and…
The highest level of law in the U.S. has accepted three landmark civil rights cases to deliver election-year rulings on. On Monday, the Supreme Court announced they will be deciding whether federal anti-discrimination laws prevent employers from firing people because of their sexual orientation and gender identity. Beginning in October,…
On Friday, another transgender woman was viciously attacked, fracturing bones in her face and injuring her right arm. But this time, the brutal beating was caught on a cellphone video in broad daylight in front of a crowd of people. Sunday night about 9:30 pm, police in Dallas, Texas arrested…
Attorneys are fighting for their client, a Honduran transgender migrant, to be released from inhumane conditions. The attorneys also say that Nicole Garcia Aguilar, 24, is being illegally held, oftentimes in solitary confinement, even though she was granted asylum in October 2018. She is currently being held at an immigration…