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Transgender college students have launched the National Transgender Leadership Conference Committee with the goal of hosting a summit this fall.
Led by Equality Caucus chair Rep. Mark Pocan, advocates for transgender rights and fellow Democrats vow to stick up for trans kids.
A wide variety of organizations have filed friend-of-the-court briefs urging the justices to find that federal law already bans anti-LGBTQ bias in the workplace.
These are the virulent anti-LGBTQ+ Republicans behind the GOP platform.
Reggie Greer, a veteran of the LGBTQ Victory Institute and the Obama administration, will seek to mobilize the community for Biden.
"This legislation has been hijacked by Speaker Mike Johnson and anti-LGBTQ+ lawmakers," says Human Rights Campaign President Kelley Robinson.
The resolution adopted today is nonbinding but still sends a strong message, supporters say.
Hakeem Jeffries, Katherine Clark, and Pete Aguilar have announced their bids for the top three positions.
The 2015 Trans100 list includes activists, journalists, academics, and sex workers.
The former president of the D.C. chapter for Log Cabin Republicans doesn't like the support for the president.
The antidiscrimination bill moves to the full House, even with the GOP trying to kill it.
According to a new poll, 70% of LGBT Americans prefer passing an Employment Non-Discrimination Act that does not cover transgender people over not passing the bill at all. The poll, commissioned by the Human Rights Campaign and conducted on October 26, surveyed 500 LGBT people across the country. The version of ENDA sponsored by Rep. Barney Frank that does not include job protections for transgender Americans was voted out of the House of Representative rules committee Monday night and is very likely to be voted on Wednesday.
If Judges Nicole Berner and Melissa DuBose are confirmed to the federal bench, President Joe Biden would tie a record of appointing 11 openly LGBTQ+ lifetime judges.
The president released a memo to that effect Friday evening, but the ban is still blocked by courts.
Defeating Trump's Supreme Court nominee will be hard, but it's possible, say the influential senator and other progressives.
