On Dec. 4, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments in what is likely to be the most important trans rights case in history. It will have knock-on effects for civil rights jurisprudence that will affect the freedoms and protections of LGBTQ+ Americans, women, medical providers, and parents’ rights to raise their children without interference from the state. Chase Strangio: …
As a new term of Supreme Court rulemaking approaches, minors’ access to gender-affirming care is on the chopping block. When the 6th Circuit dismissed these two claims, the plaintiffs from Tennessee and Kentucky filed separate petitions for Supreme Court review of the ruling’s reasoning regarding discrimination and parental rights. Indeed, a rising number of red states have recently worked to …
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A federal judge rejects Tennessee's anti-drag law as too broad and vague Enlarge this image toggle caption John Amis/AP Images for Human Rights Campaign John Amis/AP Images for Human Rights Campaign NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Tennessee's first-in-the-nation law designed to place strict limits on drag shows is unconstitutional, a federal judge says. The law is both "unconstitutionally vague and substantially overbroad" …
