News & Commentary about LGBTQ Rights

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Mar 3, 2017

How Is Trump Planning to Attack Reproductive Rights, LGBT Equality, and Religious Minorities? We’ll Find Out.

Mar 2, 2017

Medical Associations, School Administrators, and More Submit Briefs to the Supreme Court in Support of Transgender Student

Feb 13, 2017

Trans Students Deserve Better, President Trump

Feb 8, 2017

This Supreme Court Case Could Affect Trans Lives for Generations

Jan 31, 2017

Discrimination Under the Guise of ‘Religious Freedom’ Is Still Discrimination, President Trump

Jan 24, 2017

Sen. Jeff Sessions, Trump’s Nominee for Attorney General, Stands by His Support for Sweeping Anti-LGBT Bill

Jan 19, 2017

DeVos Confirmation Hearing Raises More Concerns That She Will Be Bad for Public Education and Civil Rights

Jan 19, 2017

President Trump, Please Don’t Roll Back Progress on Trans Rights. My Son’s Counting on You.

Jan 4, 2017

Legislatures Gear Up to Target Transgender People. We Gear Up to Fight Back.

Dec 22, 2016

North Carolina May Have Stuck With Discrimination, But Make No Mistake: Hate Doesn’t Sell.