In an anti-LGBT legislation update the ACLU has highlighted two states where lawmakers are gearing up to pass anti-LGBT bills. “Legislatures across the country are starting the year aggressively, with 15 states considering nearly 40 anti-LGBT bills in just the first two weeks of January,” said Eunice Rho, ACLU Advocacy & Policy Counsel. “A significant…
FORT WORTH, Texas — The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) Monday filed a motion to stay a nationwide court order preventing the federal government from enforcing an Affordable Care Act regulation that protects transgender people and women from discrimination in health care. The ACLU also asked the court to issue a formal ruling on its…
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court Friday announced it will review a decision from the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals that found that federal anti-discrimination law protects the right of teenage boy who is transgender, to use the men’s restrooms at his Virginia high school. The American Civil Liberties Union and ACLU of Virginia brought the…
RICHMOND, Va. — In a lawsuit challenging the North Carolina law banning transgender people from using restrooms that correspond to their gender identity, LGBT rights groups yesterday asked a federal appeals court to broaden a preliminary injunction in order to protect all transgender people in the state from discrimination. In August, a district court issued…
ST. PAUL, Minn. — The American Civil Liberties Union of Minnesota and the ACLU filed a motion yesterday to intervene on behalf of a transgender student in a lawsuit that seeks to bar trans students from using locker rooms consistent with the student’s gender identity. The transgender girl, identified as Jane Doe to protect her privacy, is…
CHARLOTTE, N.C. –The ACLU and Lambda Legal Sunday called on Gov. Pat McCrory and North Carolina legislative leaders to repeal H.B. 2, the state law that bans many transgender people from appropriate restrooms and prohibits local municipalities from extending nondiscrimination protections to LGBT people. The two organizations issued the following statement in response to Gov….
FORT WORTH, Texas — The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) Friday filed a motion to intervene in a case challenging a section of the Affordable Care Act that prohibits health care entities from discriminating based on race, national origin, sex, age, or disability. The lawsuit, Franciscan Alliance v. Burwell, was filed by a group of…
South Dakota Gov. Dennis Daugaard has vetoed HB 1008 — legislation attacking the rights of transgender children in public schools by attempting to force them to use restrooms and other facilities inconsistent with their gender identity. Before making his decision, Gov. Dennis Daugaard said meeting with transgender South Dakotans “put a human face” on the…
With a little more than 24 hours to go until a proposal attacking transgender youth automatically becomes law in South Dakota, the Human Rights Campaign renewed its call on South Dakota Governor Dennis Daugaard to listen to the broad chorus of organizations urging him to veto the legislation. Gov. Daugaard has until 11:59 PM CT…
As the nation waits to see if Gov. Dennis Daugaard will veto the legislation targeting transgender children that the South Dakota Senate passed yesterday, today the state’s House State Affairs Committee voted 8 to 4 to advance yet another attack on trans kids. HB 1209, which is wholly different from the bill that passed yesterday, focuses…
