Mar 02, 2022 · For LGBTQ mental health support, call the Trevor Project’s 24/7 toll-free support line at 866-488-7386. You can also reach a trained crisis counselor through the …
For transgender people, their birth-assigned legal identity and their own internal sense of gender identity do not match. Gender Expression External manifestation of one’s gender identity, usually expressed through “masculine,” “feminine,” or gender-variant behavior, clothing, haircut, voice, or body characteristics.
Mar 16, 2022 · Florida Senate passes ‘Don’t Say Gay’ bill. March 9, 202200:26. Without a clearer description, Calvert said, “teachers may legitimately fear being sued” for a …
Squawk Alley. The Supreme Court said Monday that workers cannot be fired for being gay or transgender, a blockbuster ruling for LGBT rights. The historic 6 …
As managing attorney of the Rainbow Law Center PLLC, in Southfield, Mich., transgender woman Denise E. Brogan-Kator, along with her law partner and spouse (since 2005) Mary Kator, strives to provide competent, affordable legal services to the LGBT community. Brogan-Kator knows well the discrimination and risks that sometimes come with living one’s life authentically.
External manifestation of one’s gender identity, usually expressed through “masculine,” “feminine,” or gender-variant behavior, clothing, haircut, voice, or body characteristics. Typically, transgender people seek to make their gender expression match their gender identity, rather than their birth-assigned sex.
When the other men complimented the elder Broadus on his hardworking young son, he never corrected them. “My father intuitively got that I was a guy even though I was born biologically female,” explains Broadus, a solo practitioner in Columbia, Mo. “It took my mother a little longer to catch on, but eventually she got it, too. As a transgender man, I’ve been very fortunate on the home front. Unfortunately, work has been a different story.”
The workers who brought the cases are Bostock; Donald Zarda, who was fired from his job as a skydiving instructor after revealing his sexual orientation to a female client; and Aimee Stephens, a transgender funeral director who was fired after announcing her intention to present as a woman.
Former Vice President Joe Biden, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, said the court’s move “confirmed the simple but profoundly American idea that every human being should be treated with respect and dignity.”.
The historic 6-3 decision was written by Justice Neil Gorsuch, a conservative appointed by Donald Trump. “An individual’s homosexuality or transgender status is not relevant to employment decisions,” Gorsuch wrote in the decision, which applied to three separate cases. “That’s because it is impossible to discriminate against a person ...
Justices Samuel Alito, Clarence Thomas and Brett Kavanaugh dissented. Gerald Bostock, one of the plaintiffs, said in an interview he was “elated.”. Bostock was fired from his job as a child welfare services coordinator in 2013 after joining a gay softball league.
Saul Zabell, an attorney for Zarda’s former employer Altitude Express, said in a statement that he was surprised by the decision. “The court clearly worked very hard to make sure that congressional inaction on LGBTQ+ rights would not go unrepaired,” Zabell said. “We no longer live in a society where a Gay couple can be married on Friday ...
John Bursch, an attorney for the funeral home that employed Stephens, said in a statement that the decision was disappointing. “Redefining ‘sex’ to mean ‘gender identity’ will create chaos and enormous unfairness for women and girls in athletics, women’s shelters, and many other contexts,” Bursch said.
While workers in about half the country were protected by local laws that prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity, there was no federal law that explicitly barred LGBT workers from being fired on that basis.
Although it isn't known how many trans people there are in the UK, the government estimates between 200,000 and 500,000 people identify in this way.
The government responded to the consultation, saying it believes the Gender Recognition Act strikes the right balance between legal checks and support for people who want to change their legal gender.
People who are non-binary do not consider themselves to have a solely male or female gender identity, or take a different approach to gender. People who experience a difference between their sex and gender are referred to in medical terms as having gender dysphoria - and sometimes describe themselves as transgender, or trans.
Gender identity is based on self-perception - how we see and describe ourselves, and how we ''present'' to the world.
A medical report of any hormone treatment or surgery, or any planned treatments. Evidence they have lived full time in their acquired gender for at least two years, such as copies of their passport and driving licence.
Legally changing your gender does not guarantee entry to single-sex spaces , the government says, and the consultation would never have resulted in these exemptions being removed. However, some have raised concerns about self-identification and suggest the law is not clearly understood by service providers.
However, refusing a trans woman entry to a pub's female toilet is likely to be unlawful. GETTY.
Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., asked if Garland would favor a moratorium on the death penalty while Leahy and colleagues worked on legislation to eliminate the death penalty. Garland secured the death penalty in the McVeigh case in Oklahoma City.
Durham’s investigation so far has led to the conviction of an FBI lawyer for lying on a surveillance application to a national security court. “With respect to special counsel Durham’s investigation, I expect that he will be allowed to complete his investigation,” Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, told Garland.
2. Oklahoma Bombing and Capitol Riot. As a federal prosecutor himself, Garland famously gained a conviction of Timothy McVeigh, the Oklahoma City bomber. In his opening remarks Monday, he drew a parallel with the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol by pro-Trump rioters.
“As you know, Senator, President Biden is an opponent of the death penalty,” Garland told Leahy.
U.S. Attorney for Delaware David Weiss is conducting the investigation of Hunter Biden. Weiss and Durham are the only lead prosecutors who Biden didn’t fire after taking office, as is the practice for new presidents. 2.
Garland, currently a federal judge on the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals, also answered questions about the new president’s son, Hunter Biden, calls to defund police agencies, and the Capitol riot. Here are seven major highlights from his confirmation hearing.
"If confirmed, I will supervise the prosecution of white supremacists and others who stormed the Capitol," Merrick Garland, nominated for attorney general by President Biden, testifies Monday during his confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee. (Photo: Al Drago/Getty Images)
A two-part investigative series by the Houston Chronicle casts serious doubt on the guilt of a Texas man who was executed in 1993. Ruben Cantu had persistently proclaimed his innocence and was only 17 when he was charged with capital murder for the shooting death of a San Antonio man during an attempted robbery. Now, the prosecutor and the jury forewoman have expressed doubts about the case.
Spence was charged with murdering three teenagers in 1982. He was allegedly hired by a convenience store owner to kill another girl, and killed these victims by mistake. The convenience store owner, Muneer Deeb, was originally convicted and sentenced to death, but then was acquitted at a re-trial. The police lieutenant who supervised the investigation of Spence, Marvin Horton, later concluded: “I do not think David Spence committed this crime.”
On June 23, 2000, Gary Graham was executed in Texas, despite claims that he was innocent. Graham was 17 when he was charged with the 1981 robbery and shooting of Bobby Lambert outside a Houston supermarket. He was convicted primarily on the testimony of one witness, Bernadine Skillern, who said she saw the killer’s face for a few seconds through her car windshield, from a distance of 30-40 feet away.
Jones was convicted of murdering a police officer in Jacksonville, Florida, and was executed. Jones signed a confession after several hours of police interrogation, but he later claimed the confession was coerced. In the mid-1980s, the policeman who arrested Jones and the detective who took his confession were forced out of uniform for ethical violations. The policeman was later identified by a fellow officer as an “enforcer” who had used torture. Many witnesses came forward pointing to another suspect in the case.
Ron Williamson was wrongfully convicted of murder in Oklahoma in 1998, along with his co-defendant Dennis Fritz. Williamson received the death penalty, whereas Fritz received life in prison. The Innocence Project summarizes his case this way:
A year-long investigation by the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund has uncovered evidence that Larry Griffin may have been innocent of the crime for which he was executed by the State of Missouri on June 21, 1995. Griffin maintained his innocence until his death, and investigators say his case is the strongest demonstration yet of an execution of an innocent man. The report notes that a man injured in the same drive-by shooting that claimed the life of Quintin Moss says Griffin was not involved in the crime, and the first police officer on the scene has given a new account that undermines the trial testimony of the only witness who identified Griffin as the murderer.
There are a variety of cases wherein it is very likely that innocent people have been executed, as established by facts, circumstances, and statements from people involved, in one way or another, which can show a reasonable basis upon which to believe that the executed individual was likely innocent. These case summaries are taken from the Death Penalty Information Center.