by Jennifer Childress | Feb 19, 2020 | Legal Developments, Transgender
Current and former high school students, their parents, and organizations brought suit challenging an Oregon school district’s transgender safety plan for a student who identified as a male, but was female by birth. The plan allowed the transgender student to use...
by Jennifer Childress | Aug 17, 2017 | Legal Developments, Transgender
This week, the Texas Legislature ended its special 30-day summer session without lawmakers passing the “bathroom bill”, a controversial measure that sought to bar transgender people from using the public restrooms associated with their gender identity. The bill, which...
by Jennifer Childress | Aug 1, 2017 | Headline News, Legal Developments, Transgender
While debate on the Bathroom Bill continues, some transgender men and women, who fear for their safety, say they would consider updating the gender on their birth certificates to reflect the gender they identify with, but are finding the process to do so to be...
by Jennifer Childress | Jul 24, 2017 | Headline News, Legal Developments, Transgender
The Association of American Law Schools announced that they would be moving a 2018 conference from Austin to Chicago, following the Texas Legislature’s passage of the controversial Bathroom Bill and another bill banning sanctuary cities in the state. Last Friday,...
by Jennifer Childress | Jun 8, 2017 | Transgender
The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago issued a decision siding with a transgender student who filed suit over using the boys’ bathroom at school. Ashton Whitaker, a high school senior, is a transgender male who asked to use the boys’ restroom at school. ...
by Jennifer Childress | May 23, 2017 | Transgender
Note: As of Wednesday morning, the House version of the bill is back with the Senate, where lawmakers are fighting to resurrect their version of the bathroom bill (SB6), which would apply the restrictions on transgender bathroom usage to any public restroom in the...
