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settlement, the Buffalo-Hanover-Montrose School District has agreed to create new policies that ensure that transgender, nonbinary, and gender-nonconforming students have access to restrooms and locker room facilities that align with their gender identity; ensure that transgender, nonbinary, and gender-nonconforming students can play on sports teams consistent with the gender identity; and ensure that school officials refer to students by their proper names and preferred pronouns.The settlement

required to use them.After Grimm sued the school board, the case eventually worked its way up to the U.S.

KUSA.Phillips, who is likely to appeal the decision, argued that he could not bake the cake for Scardina because of the significance of the cake coloring, which runs counter to his personal Christian beliefs that a person cannot transition from their assigned sex at birth.

sued the District of Columbia last week after being placed in a men’s unit based on a Department of Corrections policy that houses prisoners based on their genitalia, their biological sex at birth, and whether they’ve undergone gender confirmation surgery.In her lawsuit, Hinton has alleged that DOC’s policy is unconstitutional and discriminatory against Hinton and other transgender individuals, violating not only their Fifth Amendment rights under the U.S.

promising during his 2016 campaign for governor not to pursue a RFRA law, Gianforte boasted of signing the proposal in a tweet issued last week, writing: “To protect Montanans’ right to freely exercise their religion, I was proud to sign the Religious Freedom Restoration Act today.”“The governor signed SB215 into law to protect the freedom of people of all faiths to exercise their sincerely held religious beliefs,” a spokesperson for the Governor’s Office told the Helena Independent Record in a

approved during the Obama administration, all individuals, regardless of sexual orientation or gender identity, are entitled to access programs, shelters, or other accommodations made available through HUD’s Office of Community Planning and Development.

Instagram post from an account named gayprideapparel, which has since been removed, shared a video from Rudy Haro, one of the victims, saying that he and Fernando De Los Reyes Lugo had gone downtown to celebrate De Los Reyes’ birthday and their anniversary, and were “attacked by a lot of straight men tonight.” The video showed De Los Reyes with blood stains on his shirt.“One of the guys who assaulted us did have a gun he was trying to pull out until my friend started screaming for help.

current policy — which requires transgender females to have undergone a year of testosterone-suppression treatment in order to compete in sports designated for women — aligns with the policies of the International Olympic Committee, and the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee.“Inclusion and fairness can coexist for all student-athletes, including transgender athletes, at all levels of sport,” the statement reads.

The Washington Post, Rapinoe says that sports taught her important life lessons, and argues that transgender children should be entitled to learn those lessons by participating in sports, without hindrances, just as their cisgender peers are currently able to do.Rapinoe calls out the more than 40 bills introduced in more than two dozen states throughout the country that seek to bar transgender athletes from women’s sports.

last year, the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline operates 24/7 and toll-free, and can be accessed by dialing 988 regardless of location in the U.S.Legislation creating the toll-free number required LGBTQ cultural competency training for counselors, a voice response option which would allow LGBTQ youth to access specialized care, and LGBTQ resources on the Lifeline website.The passage of the National Suicide Prevention Hotline Designation Act also marked the first time that legislation

According to the study, LGBTQ students were three times more likely to report experiencing depression and anxiety, and three times more likely to have seriously considered suicide, than their non-LGBTQ peers.

OutSmart Magazine reports.Both employees said they faced blowback from colleagues after they defended the transgender woman against transphobic comments, with Johnson saying he was “bombarded with questions” about which restroom the woman would use.Phillips alleges harassment from her colleagues regarding her sexuality, including homophobic remarks directed at her whenever female customers would enter the store.Johnson promoted Phillips to a shift lead, but one month later she claims she was

place in our schools, yet [former Education Secretary] Betsy DeVos created a double standard that allows schools to ignore reports of harassment based on sex where similar reports based on race, national origin, or religion would require an appropriate response,” Ria Tabacco Mar, director of the American Civil Liberties Union’s Women’s Rights Project.

allows federally-funded social service providers to discriminate on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity.The members of Congress have signed onto a letter asking Acting HHS Secretary Norris Cochran to reverse the rule, which would allow various forms of discrimination, such as a taxpayer-funded adoption and foster care agency refusing to place children with same-sex couples, an immigrant services center refusing to support an LGBTQ refugee or asylum seeker, or a federally-funded

Anita Noelle Green’s hopes of overturning the Miss United States of America pageant’s ban on transgender contestants have been crushed by a conservative federal judge in Oregon.Green competed twice in the Miss Montana contest and won the the Miss Elite Earth Oregon crown in 2019.

Masterpiece Cakeshop case involving a baker who refused to bake a cake for a same-sex wedding, social conservatives have sought to justify refusing goods or services to LGBTQ individuals or organizations based on the premise that doing so infringes upon their personal beliefs opposing homosexuality or same-sex marriage.LGBTQ advocates have argued that this use of RFRA to condone discrimination against LGBTQ people or religious minorities — as in a case involving a foster care agency’s refusal to

MILK, a biographical film about Harvey Milk, the first openly gay person elected to public office in California.The film takes place in the 1970s and highlights Milk’s commitment to defeating Proposition 6, an initiative aimed at preventing gay and lesbian individuals from working in California’s public schools.

Equality Act would prohibit discrimination in various aspects of life based on a person’s sexual orientation or gender identity. President Biden has committed to passing the Act within his first 100 days in office, and it was recently introduced to both the U.S.

The Dating Divide: Race and Desire in the Era of Online Romance,” sociologists Jennifer Lundquist, Celeste Vaughan Curington and Ken Hou-Lin show how online dating sites exacerbate racial divisions.They found that race-related “preference” filters on digital dating platforms help foster racist attitudes — especially toward black women. “Filtering out people based on race is a normal practice on dating apps,” Lundquist told The Post. “The idea of having racial preferences is unacceptable and

Playboy playmate is cyber-spanking Southwest Airlines for nearly boob-shaming her off of a flight. Secure your oxygen mask, honey!Eve J.

Six years after the death of his partner Nathan Lunson, Tasmanian resident Ben Jago is still waiting for justice and to be recognised as the next of kin. Ben Jago’s appeal seeking that the immunity from the anti-discrimination law to the Tasmanian Coroner’s Office, which had not granted him next of kin recognition, be taken away is pending in the Supreme Court of Tasmania.

Signed by Biden last week, the order affirms a recent U.S.

It’s 2021, the sun is shining, the birds are singing or does it just feel like that because an ominous cloud has finally lifted? The breath of fresh air the Biden administration brings feels heady, especially after he signed a bunch of Executive Orders (17 in fact!) on his first, not even full day in the job! Among those Executive Orders was one which gave the LGBTQI community some protections relating to discrimination but there have been a few celebrities that have been throwing their support

In a final parting blow to American LGBTQI communities, President Donald Trump in the dying days of his Presidency has rolled back protections that in turn, will now allow government funded social service providers to discriminate against clients based on gender and sexual orientation. In an example of how the new rule change will affect the treatment of LGBTQI communities, the original 45 CFR 75.300(d) required grant recipients to treat same-sex marriages as valid.

KING 5. “The whole thing was pulled out from underneath me.”On Monday, Rinedahl filed a lawsuit against SPU alleging that the school illegally discriminated against him based on his sexual orientation, violating both state and local law.Last year, the U.S.

Visitation Alumnae Magazine.Although Catholic teaching currently frowns upon same-sex relationships, Visitation Prep justified publishing the announcements as part of its teaching that “we are all children of God…worthy of respect and love.”“As I have prayed over this contradiction, I keep returning to this choice: we can focus on Church teaching on gay marriage or we can focus on Church teaching on the Gospel commandment of love,” Sister Mary Berchmans, the school’s president pro emerita, wrote

Despite being one of the faces of a movie that gives a voice to a minority in Marvel’s Black Panther conservative actress Letitia Wright has belittled another minority, the transgender community, by sharing a video created and uploaded to YouTube by self-proclaimed prophet Tomi Arayomi. In 2018 Wright was severely affected by depression where she found Christian religion to be her healer, as she mentioned after receiving her BAFTA reward saying that she had thought about quitting acting.

Accountable.US, which analyzed data from the U.S.

An Epidemic of Violence: Fatal Violence Against Transgender and Gender Non-Conforming People in the United States in 2020,” details the deaths of those individuals killed in the United States, including updates on the status of investigations into their deaths, or any charges filed against perpetrators of violence.

Hughes told Deadline on Monday. “I made the decision to leave to protect myself from that type of discrimination.

The results of the 2020 US Presidential election are in and Joe Biden, the Democrat candidate, has been victorious over incumbent President Donald Trump.Throughout the last four years of Trump’s administration, there has been significant reversals made to the rights afforded to LGBTQI people.In 2020, the Trump administration also finalised an administrative rule from the Department of Health and Human Services (HSS) to decrease health care discrimination protections for LGBTQI people.A press

NBC Los Angeles reports.In her suit, filed in Los Angeles Superior Court, Johnson says she started working for American Airlines in 2012, and claims that while colleagues were aware of her gender identity, she was often referred to as “he” or “him” by coworkers and managers.She claims that complaints about harassment fell on deaf ears, and that one employee repeatedly asked Johnson whether she had undergone gender confirmation surgery, despite Johnson telling them that their questioning was

The New York Post, which first reported the lawsuit.See also: Maine transgender man sues Dunkin’ Donuts franchise for wrongful termination and sexual harassmentAbenante later filed a complaint with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, claiming he was a victim of sex-based discrimination, in violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, and discrimination based on sexual orientation, in violation of New York’s civil rights law.On Sept.

The Associated Press, referring to her dyed red hair and a series of tattoos on both arms.As part of her platform, DiMezzo supports gun rights and limited government, but promises be harsh on police who are accused of wrongdoing.

Dancing with the Stars, from which she was recently eliminated, Heche recounted how her involvement in a same-sex relationship was poorly received in Hollywood.

News and Tribune. Hart claims that one of her daughter’s teachers “humiliated” the teenager on multiple occasions, making derogatory comments about the girl’s sexual orientation in front of other students. On another occasion, when she was late to class, the teacher told her, “You wouldn’t be late if you hadn’t been kissing and hugging on that girl.”On Monday, Hart claims, her daughter skipped that teacher’s class, along with her girlfriend.