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Appeals Court Upholds Decision Allowing Trans Female Athletes to Compete
A federal court of appeals has upheld a lower court’s decision dismissing a lawsuit brought by a group of female athletes in Connecticut seeking to...
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Supreme Court Hears Same-Sex Wedding Refusal Case
On Monday morning, the U.S. Supreme Court began hearing oral arguments in the case of a graphic designer who refuses to create custom-made wedding websites...
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U.S. Senate Passes Respect for Marriage Act
On Tuesday, the U.S. Senate passed a bill requiring the federal government and states to recognize as valid same-sex marriages legally performed in states without...
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Supreme Court Allows Video of Proposition 8 Trial to Be Made Public
Earlier this week, the U.S. Supreme Court rejected a request from opponents of same-sex marriage who had sought to block video of the 2010 trial...
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Supreme Court Rejects Yeshiva University’s Request for Injunction
On Wednesday, the Supreme Court rejected an emergency request from an Orthodox Jewish university in New York seeking an injunction that would allow it to...
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Indianapolis Archdiocese Can Fire LGBTQ Employees, Court Rules
The Indiana Supreme Court has ruled that the Archdiocese of Indianapolis can fire Catholic school teachers who enter same-sex marriages or don’t live by Church...
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Appeals Court Blocks Arkansas’ Ban on Transgender Youth Treatments
A federal appeals court has upheld an order blocking an Arkansas law that sought to bar transgender youth from accessing gender-affirming health care treatments, and...
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10-Year-Old Trans Girl Can Rejoin Girls’ Softball Team, Says Court
A federal judge has ordered Indianapolis Public Schools to allow a 10-year-old girl — who was told she could no longer participate on the girls’...
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Ted Cruz: Supreme Court ‘Cleary Wrong’ on Gay Marriage
Texas senator says the high court overstepped its authority by not allowing individual states to debate their own marriage laws.
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Democrats Introduce a “Trans Bill of Rights”
The bill will attempt to codify a Supreme Court decision that established employee protections for gay and transgender workers.
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Employers’ Health Insurance Must Cover Gender-Affirming Care, Court Rules
A federal court in Georgia has ruled that employers who exclude gender-affirming medical care from their health insurance coverage are violating federal law. The decision,...
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Gavin Grimm Warns of Attacks on LGBTQ Rights: “Texas is All of Us”
Gavin Grimm warned LGBTQ high schoolers and their allies at a Saturday town hall meeting to be vigilant about defending any progress that schools have...
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Texas Supreme Court Allows Investigations of Trans Kids’ Parents to Resume
The Texas Supreme Court has issued a mixed ruling regarding state investigations into parents who allow their transgender children to access gender-affirming care. The high...
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What A Roe v. Wade Overturn Could Mean For LGBTQ Rights
With LGBTQ rights currently under attack, the potential repeal of reproductive rights is "a four-alarm fire for all Americans."
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Republican Says Civil Rights Don’t Apply To Gay People
A Georgia Republican candidate for Congress said that civil rights for Black people shouldn’t apply to gay people because “they can actually change” to become...
