The majority upholds state bans on trans athletes, sidelinging key evidence, scientific fact, and its own logic upholding trans rights in employment.
LGBTQ rights
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When America’s Culture Wars Were Fought in Art Galleries
Late 20th-century battles over artists like Robert Mapplethorpe and Andres Serrano set the stage for the transgressive Age of Trump.
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“Executive Orders Are Not Laws. . .They Can Be Undone Quite Easily”
Channyn Lynne Parker, the CEO of Equality Illinois, on threats to civil rights, Chicago’s presidential wannabees, JB Pritzker and Rahm Emanuel, plus why you don’t start a fire if you’re sitting farthest from the exit.
Posted inLaw and Justice
The Gay Conversion Therapy Case and Its Discontents
If the oral arguments earlier this month offer any indication, the Supreme Court will uphold the banned practice—and then some.
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Alito’s Same-Sex Wedding Panic Threatens LGBTQ Rights
His opinion for the Supreme Court Majority in Mahmoud v. Taylor, a case involving parents opting out of a children’s book about a same-sex wedding, has big implications.
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The Dangerous Trans-Rights Decision from the Supreme Court
Upholding Tennessee’s law banning hormone therapies and other treatments for trans youth alone relied on legal gymnastics and revived a long-discredited opinion from the 1970s.
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Washington’s Hundred-Year War on Gays
A rich, harrowing chronicle of the federal government’s oppression of homosexuals in the 20th century firmly refuses to draw any connection to today’s struggles.
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Fighting a Fundamentalist University’s Anti-LGBTQ Policies
Elizabeth Hunter suffered under Bob Jones University’s anti-LGBTQ discrimination. Now, she’s the lead plaintiff in a federal lawsuit to end “religious exemptions” under Title IX.
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On LGBTQ Rights, the Supreme Court Punts Yet Again
The Justices are distracting the public with narrow opinions that leave no side satisfied, just like those old Magic 8 balls. Soon, they’re going to have to make a decision.
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Can the Black Lives Matter Movement Inspire a More Inclusive Pride Month?
It’s time for an overdue conversation about how anti-Blackness has often manifested within queer spaces.
