Category: discrimination

  • Katy ISD’s controversial proposed transgender policy draws hundreds

    Katy ISD’s controversial proposed transgender policy draws hundreds

    Rating: Transneutral, Houston Chronicle, August 28, 2023 (PDF archive) (HTML archive) (Take Action) Action Recommendations Content Summary Katy ISD’s controversial proposed transgender policy draws hundreds Katy ISD staff must now inform parents whose children ask to be identified as transgender, after the board of trustees on Monday narrowly passed a new official policy containing a…

  • Maplewood Richmond Heights School District denounces new transgender athletes law

    Maplewood Richmond Heights School District denounces new transgender athletes law

    Rating: Transneutral, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, August 28, 2023 (PDF archive) (HTML archive) (Take Action) Action Recommendations Content Summary Maplewood Richmond Heights School District denounces new transgender athletes law Jack Suntrup JEFFERSON CITY — Maplewood Richmond Heights School District administrators on Monday called a new state law restricting transgender athletes discriminatory and didn’t shut the door…

  • California Republicans To Try Anti-Trans Ballot Initiatives

    California Republicans To Try Anti-Trans Ballot Initiatives

    Rating: Transsupportive, Erin in the Morning, August 28, 2023 (PDF archive) (HTML archive) (Take Action) Action Recommendations Content Summary California Republicans To Try Anti-Trans Ballot Initiatives   Voters in California may remember Proposition 8, a ballot initiative that sought to ban gay marriage by defining marriage as between a man and a woman. The initiative,…

  • California Attorney General Seeks to Block Transgender Notification Policy

    California Attorney General Seeks to Block Transgender Notification Policy

    Rating: Transneutral, The New York Times, August 28, 2023 (PDF archive) (HTML archive) (Take Action) Action Recommendations Content Summary California Attorney General Seeks to Block Transgender Notification Policy The News California’s attorney general, Rob Bonta, filed a lawsuit against a Southern California school district on Monday, asking a judge to halt a new requirement that…

  • Judge dismisses lawsuit by sorority sisters who sought to block a transgender woman from joining

    Judge dismisses lawsuit by sorority sisters who sought to block a transgender woman from joining

    Rating: Transneutral, Associated Press via Yahoo News, August 28, 2023 (PDF archive) (HTML archive) (Take Action) Action Recommendations Content Summary Judge dismisses lawsuit by sorority sisters who sought to block a transgender woman from joining CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — A judge has dismissed a lawsuit contesting a transgender woman’s admission into a sorority at the…

  • Judge Sides With Trans Sorority Member Accused of Inappropriate Erection

    Judge Sides With Trans Sorority Member Accused of Inappropriate Erection

    Rating: Transphobic, Newsweek, August 28, 2023 (PDF archive) (HTML archive) (Take Action) Action Recommendations Content Summary Judge Sides With Trans Sorority Member Accused of Inappropriate ErectionNewsweek Judge Sides With Trans Sorority Member Accused of Inappropriate Erection BY MATTHEW IMPELLI ON 8/28/23 AT 12:31 PM EDT A transgender sorority member accused of acting inappropriately towards other female members recently…

  • Poll finds Missouri voters back bans on transgender health care

    Poll finds Missouri voters back bans on transgender health care

    Rating: Transphobic, Missouri Independent, August 25, 2023 (PDF archive) (HTML archive) (Take Action) Action Recommendations Content Summary Poll finds Missouri voters back bans on transgender health care • Missouri Independent UPDATE on Friday, Aug. 25, at 3:15 p.m.: This story was updated to reflect the decision by Circuit Judge Steven Ohmer, who handed down a…

  • Concertgoers Criticize Carlos Santana Over ‘BS’ Anti-Trans Rant At New Jersey Show

    Concertgoers Criticize Carlos Santana Over ‘BS’ Anti-Trans Rant At New Jersey Show

    Rating: Transsupportive, Huffington Post, August 25, 2023 (PDF archive) (HTML archive) (Video archive) (Take Action) Content Summary Concertgoers Criticize Carlos Santana Over ‘BS’ Anti-Trans Rant At New Jersey Show The “Smooth” guitarist declared that a “woman is a woman and a man is a man” in a resurfaced clip from a July concert. By Ben Blanchet…

  • Transgender athlete laws by state: Legislation, science, more

    Transgender athlete laws by state: Legislation, science, more

    Rating: Transneutral, ESPN, August 24, 2023 (PDF archive) (HTML archive) (Video 1 archive) (Video 2 archive) (Video 3 archive) (Take Action) Action Recommendations Content Summary Transgender athlete laws by state: Legislation, science, more Since 2020, 23 states have passed laws restricting transgender athletes’ ability to participate in school sports in accordance with their gender identity.…

  • VB School Board fails motion to adopt transgender policies

    VB School Board fails motion to adopt transgender policies

    Rating: Transneutral, WVEC, August 23, 2023 (PDF archive) (HTML archive) (Video 1 archive) (Video 2 archive) (Take Action) Action Recommendations Content Summary VB School Board fails motion to adopt transgender policies The vote, following a resolution introduced by board member Victoria Manning, comes as school boards across Virginia are beginning to vote on the adoption.…