Clergy Call 2009
August 16, 2009
Rev. Manish Mishra asks us to see how firing people from the workplace for factors other than merit “cuts to the very core of who we are as Americans.”
Continue Reading ►New TSA Procedures Could Negatively Impact Transgender Travelers
August 14, 2009
Tomorrow, the Transportation Security Administration will implement Secure Flight, a program designed, according to TSA, to “streamline the [terrorist] watch list matching process” by requiring all passengers to provide their gender and date of birth when they book a ticket. Unfortunately, the potential impact on transgender travelers - whose identity documents often don't match their gender expression -was almost certainly not part of TSA’s considerations when the program was developed.
Continue Reading ►Equality Forward: Highlights
August 14, 2009
As we wrap up our series of Equality Forward essays, I wanted to take a look back at the powerful voices we've featured over the past two weeks. The report and this conversation is not an end but a beginning of the larger discussions that we need to continue having about race, sexuality and gender. Read more about Equality Forward.
Continue Reading ►Final Chance to Encourage End to HIV Travel Ban
August 14, 2009
As we told you back at the end of June, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) at long last issued a proposed regulation that would end our nation’s discriminatory ban on HIV-positive visitors and immigrants.
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