WASHINGTON – The Human Rights Campaign is calling on leaders at Central Piedmont Community College (CPCC) in Charlotte, N.C., to implement an action plan after a disturbing incident of harassment and discrimination against Andraya Williams, a transgender student. CPCC suspended Williams after a campus safety officer allegedly detained, questioned and harassed her as she was…
Media Matters for America reports how, during discussions with Equality Matters, officials from a number of California’s largest school districts pushed back against right-wing misinformation about a new state law guaranteeing transgender students access to proper facilities and programs. Evidence continues to mount that a new California law allowing transgender public school students to use the restroom facilities…
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…
WASHINGTON – The United States entered into a settlement agreement with the Arcadia Unified School District in Arcadia, Calif., to resolve an investigation into allegations of discrimination against a transgender student based on the student’s sex. Under the agreement, approved by the district’s school board unanimously last night, the school district will take a number…
