Federal Judge Blocks Arkansas Law Targeting Books & Librarians
Again the judiciary stands in the way of GOP attempts to erase LGBTQ+ people.
August 1, 2023
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Again the judiciary stands in the way of GOP attempts to erase LGBTQ+ people.
Trans, nonbinary, and intersexed residents are no longer able to accurately represent their gender identity.
The Department of Education says sex discrimination includes anti-LGBTQ+ discrimination. More than 20 Republican attorney generals disagree.
The state judge who struck down Arkansas's statutory and constitutional prohibitions on same-sex marriage clarified his ruling today by voiding all state laws that refer to marriage solely as the union of one man and one woman.
Judge Tim Fox's ruling inititially applies only to the three couples who filed suit, but he's indicated he's likely to expand it statewide.
It was the first such ban enacted and now is the first one ruled unconstitutional.
These aren't final decisions on the bans, but they can't be enforced while lawsuits against them are heard.
The ruling from the Sixth Circuit is the first court decision in favor of a ban on gender-affirming care for trans minors.
The law had been on hold until the judge could decide whether to block it while a suit against it is heard.
Transgender, nonbinary, and intersex residents are suing over a new policy that makes it nearly impossible to change their gender marker and bans the use of a gender-neutral one.
Several dozen same-sex couples have been married in at least two Arkansas counties since a state judge struck down a constitutional ban on such marriages Friday.
Twenty-six attorneys general have filed a friend-of-the-court brief urging the Supreme Court to do so.
The Biden-Harris administration's new Title IX rule promised to protect LGBTQ+ students from sexual violence, but conservative states are blocking its implementation and leaving many queer assault survivors unprotected.
"What? Did trans people storm the Capitol?" Stewart jokes in the season premiere of his show The Problem With Jon Stewart.
This follows a similar filing on a ban in Tennessee.