Physical pain. I’ve been experiencing a lot of it in the past week. One of the chronic conditions that contribute to my VA disability rating of 100 percent is the lumbar area of my back. A combination of exaggerated lordosis (an exaggerated curve in the lumbar region of the spine), years of lifting heavy gas…
Student bathrooms post AB1266, the Schools Success and Opportunity Act, are “going to be a hostile situation, I think, and dangerous to everybody. I don’t see [accommodating transgender girls in school bathrooms] as a way that cuts down on bullying as the quote in the Wall Street Journal – forcing boys and girls to share…
Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 and Title IV of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibit discrimination based on sex – and discriminating on the basis of gender identity is now considered discrimination on the basis of sex. In a settlement agreement entered into between the U.S. Department of Education, the U.S….
“Just last year California passed this awesome law called AB1266 (The California Success and Opportunity Act) allowing transgender students equal access to restrooms and sports teams at their schools,” said Holly Hellerstreet of Canvass for a Cause. Canvass for a Cause was part of a coalition that put together a Jan. 11 rally at University…
AB1266, The School Success and Opportunity Act, requires that any pupil “be permitted to participate in sex-segregated school programs and activities, including athletic teams and competitions, and use facilities consistent with his or her gender identity, irrespective of the gender listed on the pupil’s records.” The bill was signed into law Aug. 12, 2013 by…
The signature drive to force a referendum on AB 1266, the School Success and Opportunity Act, looks at this point that it probably won’t qualify for the ballot. The Privacy For All Students coalition (PFAS), which includes the Pacific Justice Institute (PJI), needs 504,760 valid voter signatures to qualify the referendum for the ballot. As…
From Equality Matters comes their latest post on the anti-LGBT extremists behind the campaign to repeal the California law guaranteeing transgender students access to proper facilities and programs. Privacy for All Students, a coalition seeking to overturn a new law ensuring proper facilities access for transgender students in California, recently claimed that it has gathered enough…
SACRAMENTO – Following conservative groups obtaining the necessary number of signatures to place a referendum on the 2014 ballot for Assembly Bill 1266, which will allow transgender students in public schools to have access to sports teams and school facilities such as restrooms with respect to their gender identity, California State Assembly Speaker John A….
