New Hampshire Kicks Off 2017 Legislative Session with Pro-Transgender Bill
While 2017 started off with a wave of anti-LGBTQ legislation in states across the nation, New Hampshire is on a different path.
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Legislation Targeting Transgender Students Pulled in South Dakota
State lawmakers in South Dakota pulled a dangerous bill that specifically targeted transgender students.
Boy Scouts Finally Opens Its Doors to Transgender Boys
The news comes as one New Jersey family has been fighting back after their son, an 8-year-old boy, was kicked out of the Cub Scouts because he is transgender.
Kentucky Legislative Session Begins With Slate of Anti-LGBTQ Bills
Anti-equality lawmakers have already filed several bills targeting the transgender community and measures that seek to give cover to people who discriminate against LGBTQ Kentuckians under the guise of religion.
Equality NC & HRC to NCGA: Make No-Strings-Attached Repeal of HB2 a Top Priority This Session
Equality NC and HRC called on North Carolina lawmakers to fully repeal the state’s deeply discriminatory HB2 at the beginning of the new legislative session.
HRC Mourns India Monroe, Misgendered After December Murder
News coverage of Monroe’s death identified her by the wrong name and gender. As a result, she had not been counted among 21 other known transgender homicide victims of 2016.
HRC Mourns Jamie Lee Wounded Arrow, Trans Woman Murdered in South Dakota
The apparent homicide comes just days after Mesha Caldwell’s death marked the year’s first reported murder of a transgender person in the United States.
HRC Mourns Sean Hake, Transgender Man Killed in Pennsylvania
On January 6, Sean Ryan Hake, 23, was shot multiple times by a police officer in Sharon, Pennsylvania.
Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick Plotting Discriminatory Attack on Transgender Texans
Today, HRC blasted Texas Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick and State Sen. Lois Kolkhorst for introducing SB 6 -- dishonestly titled the “Privacy Protection Act” -- a bill expressly intended to…
HRC Mourns Mesha Caldwell, First Reported Trans Murder Victim of 2017
HRC was deeply saddened to learn that transgender woman Mesha Caldwell, 41, was found dead near Canton, Mississippi, on the evening of January 4.
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