“Congress, state legislatures and local governments are in a position to adopt appropriate policies or laws addressing this issue,” Sessions said, adding that the department is still committed to protecting students from bullying. “This is an issue best solved at the state and local level,” ...
—Drafted the model “Student Privacy Act” legislation that led to a wave of “bathroom bills” in 2017 —Defended state-enforced sterilization for transgender Europeans —For years has promoted the idea of “homosexual agenda,” a purportedly evil plan to abolish Christianity and, eventually, civ...
CBS affiliate WNCN reportedMcCrory released a lengthy statement in response, saying Cooper "can't select which laws he will defend and which laws are politically expedient to refuse to defend." "When you are the state's lawyer, you are a lawyer first and a politician second," ...
“It is the policy of the United States that it will not fund, sponsor, promote, assist, or support the so-called ‘transition’ of a child from one sex to another, and it will rigorously enforce all laws that prohibit or limit these destructive and life-altering procedures,”readsthe pre...
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - A potentially epic clash over transgender rights took shape Monday when the U.S. Justice Department sued North Carolina over the state's bathroom law after the governor refused to back down. In unusually forceful language, U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch said North...
Kansas lawmakers approve one of the broadest transgender bathroom bills in the country; veto expected photo by:AP Photo/John Hanna Ian Benalcazar, far right, a 13-year-old transgender boy from Lawrence, speaks outside the Kansas Statehouse during a rally on Transgender Day of Visib...
State of Missouri LGBTQ+ Transgender Gender Cpl Vic Burk USMC Shared an update 5 mo New laws in Tennessee. Teachers are not required to use pronouns of the gender a student wants to go by or the name if it relates to the opposite of what's on their birth certificate. If a student...
If Republican legislatures and state governors can’t recognize the humanity of trans people — who deserve the same rights to go to the bathroom in peace as everyone else — perhaps they will recognize a bad deal when they see one. Boycotts work. Denying people basic human dignity ...
hour ago, the Maryland House of Delegates HGO Committee voted Maryland’s “Bathroom Bill” out of committee. Now only one vote stands between your right, and the rights of children, to privacy in bathrooms all over the state.In just a few short days this bill will take away those rights...
Ohio's bathroom bill was debated for 19 months before finally clearing the GOP-led Legislature on Nov. 13, during Transgender Awareness Week. It was tacked onto a separate piece of legislation by the Ohio House that related to the state's College Credit Plus program, which allows high-school...