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Anti-LGBTQ Discrimination Is a Civil Rights Issue: Why Black People Need to Get Behind Title VII
This month, the Supreme Court heard arguments around a case that could transform how businesses across the country handle anti-LGBTQ discrimination. Anyone who purports to care about the black community should be concerned about efforts to ensure equal protection under the law to black LGBTQ+ people, including efforts to question the application of Title VII…
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Trump’s Justice Department Tells the US Supreme Court Civil Rights Laws Don’t Protect Transgender Workers
Apparently, as far as the Trump administration is concerned, employers have every right to fire transgender people. In a brief to the U.S. Supreme Court on Friday, the Justice Department argued that the nation’s civil rights laws don’t pertain to transgender people, and thus, a lawsuit filed by a trans woman charging that she was…
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Jeff Sessions Believes Transgender People Cannot Be Victims of Sexual Discrimination and Are Therefore Unworthy of Civil Rights Protections
Attorney General Jeff Sessions believes that transgender people do not qualify for civil rights protections against sexual discrimination, and to prove that, he has rescinded an Obama-administration decree that granted them such protections under the Civil Rights Act of 1964. BuzzFeed News obtained a copy of a memo Sessions sent to agency heads and U.S.…