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Bad-Ass Transgender Student Took His Transphobic School To Court

September 26, 2016 Mark Joseph Stern, www.slate.com ,
By Mark Joseph Stern for Slate - Ash Whitaker is a high-school student who gets good grades, plays in the orchestra, and hangs out with his friends. He is also a bad-ass. After Whitaker came out as transgender, his school in Kenosha, Wisconsin, launched a campaign of discrimination against him. The school forced him to use the girl’s bathroom, addressed him with female pronouns, and referred to him by his (female) birth name.

Tallying Up The Mounting Economic Toll Of North Carolina’s HB2

September 20, 2016 Alex Kotch, www.facingsouth.org , ,
By Alex Kotch for Facing South - Since becoming law in late March, North Carolina's House Bill 2 has sparked national controversy and an ongoing boycott of the state over its discriminatory provisions. HB2 requires transgender people to use public bathrooms that match the gender on their birth certificate and bars local governments from adopting LGBT protections and minimum wage laws. This week, major college sports leagues became the latest organizations to cancel events in the state because of the law.

Boycotts Won’t Change Mississippi—But History Shows How We Can

June 13, 2016 Jake McGraw, www.yesmagazine.org , ,
By Jake McGraw for Yes Magazine - On May 13, the U.S. Department of Education sent a letter to school districts across the country clarifying that Title IX, which prohibits sex discrimination in schools, applies to transgender students—most notably, their right to use the bathroom that matches their gender identity. The letter brought backlash from many quarters. But some of the harshest came from my home state of Mississippi, which has a long and brutal tradition of fighting the expansion of civil rights. Declaring his opposition on Facebook, Governor Phil Bryant chose language that evoked the ugliest ghosts of the state’s past...

Obama To Name Stonewall First National LGBT Rights Monument

May 6, 2016 Elizabeth Daley, www.advocate.com , , ,
By Elizabeth Daley for Advocate - President Obama is expected to sign a proposal which will designate New York City's historic Stonewall Inn as the nation's first LGBT national momument, the Associated Press reported Tuesday. Stonewall first became known as the birthplace of the LGBT rights movement following a series of riots which took place on June 28, 1969, during a routine police raid targeting LGBT clientele that frequented the space. The Inn's original location was designated a National Historic Landmark in 2000 and a New York City Landmark in 2015.
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