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Now that North Carolina has lost its NCAA and Atlantic Coast Conference championship events for this year, some other states shape up as the next potential battlegrounds in the organization's fight for discrimination-free environments. The NCAA earlier this week took the unprecedented step of pulling seven championship events from the state over its objection to a law that can allow for discrimination against LGBT people.
Following last academic year's seemingly powerful Black Lives Matter protests, a group called Black Students for Revolution has now issued a 13-demand manifesto at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The protracted set of 13 demands - which, at 3,211 words, clocks in at over 220 percent of the length of the Declaration of Independence - charges that the taxpayer-funded school "acts an extension of a colonial system that profits from the exploitation of historically-looted communities."
Saturday night saw 3,600 members of the LGBTQ community and their allies gather at the DC Convention Center for the Human Rights Campaign's annual National Dinner. This year the chairs of the dinner were Bruce Rohr and June Crenshaw .
Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Kaine is predicting that the Roman Catholic Church may eventually change its opposition to gay marriage. Kaine is a devout Roman Catholic as well as a U.S. senator from Virginia and a former governor of that state.
As the school year begins, one thing is certain: There will be anti-Semitic outbursts and incidents at campuses of the University of California. We know this because of a long history of such episodes at campuses like Berkeley, Irvine and UCLA, where Jewish students have been subjected to everything from physical obstruction and attempted intimidation to questions by Palestinian students and their sympathizers about whether their faith allows Jews elected to student government posts to make objective decisions.
College applications and high school graduation are the biggest worries for most 17-year-olds. For Gavin Grimm, it's waiting for the nation's highest court to decide whether he can use the boys restroom.
The Missouri School Boards Association originally recommended schools allow transgender students to use the bathroom and locker room they identify with, but it swiftly rewrote the policy, leaving the decision up to districts. The sudden change came after a Virginia district court ruled it did not accept the U.S. Department of Education's interpretation of Title IX to include "gender identity," allowing transgender students to use the bathroom consistent with their gender identity.
North Carolina legislators lifted the 100-limit cap on charter schools in 2011, and now there are now 167 charter schools in the state. The school, affiliated with Team CFA, and its affiliate, The Challenge Foundation, is one of 10 charter schools in North Carolina funded by these organizations.
Moral Monday demonstrators rally against North Carolina's anti-transgender House Bill 2 in May. A U.S. judge on Friday ordered the University of North Carolina to allow transgender students and staff to use the bathroom that matches their gender identity, blocking enforcement of the state's controversial "bathroom bill" known as House Bill 2, while a lawsuit challenging the anti-LGBTQ legislation proceeds. "Today, the tightness that I have felt in my chest every day since H.B. 2 passed has eased.
"Today is a great day for me, and hopefully this is a start to chipping away at the injustice of HB 2," transgender UNC employee says in statement A federal judge ruled Friday that the University of North Carolina would not have to adhere to the state's controversial "bathroom bill." In what is considered a major, if temporary, victory in the fight against North Carolina's controversial HB2, also known as the "bathroom bill," a federal judge ruled Friday that the University of North Carolina would not have to adhere to the law that would force transgender students and employees to use the restroom associated with the gender on their birth certificate.
A federal judge in Texas has blocked the Obama administration's order that requires public schools to let transgender students use the bathrooms and locker rooms consistent with their chosen gender identity. In a temporary injunction signed Sunday, U.S. District Judge Reed O'Connor ruled that the federal education law known as Title IX "is not ambiguous" about sex being defined as "the biological and anatomical differences between male and female students as determined at their birth."
In a speech to pastors, Sen. Marco Rubio urged religious conservatives to love gay people, instead of judging them for their behavior. Rubio began by reasserting his belief that marriage was between one man and one woman, but cautioned people of faith to avoid "heated rhetoric" against lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender Americans.
Texas and 11 other states are asking a federal judge to halt an Obama administration directive on bathroom rights for transgender students in U.S. public schools. The hearing Friday in Fort Worth comes three months after federal officials told schools that transgender students must be allowed to use bathrooms and locker rooms consistent with their chosen gender identity.
In this Feb. 13, 2016 file photo, the Supreme Court building at seen sunset in Washington. The Supreme Court's order blocking a transgender male from using the boys' restroom at his Virginia school underscores how the presidential election results will shape the high court.
The U.S. Supreme Court said a Virginia school board can block a transgender male from using the boys bathroom at his school until the court decides whether to intervene in his case. On Wednesday, the high court agreed to allow the Gloucester County School Board to bar Gavin Grimm from the bathroom that matches his gender identity until the justices decide whether to review an appeals court ruling in his case.
Student Gavin Grimm, who was barred from using the boys' bathroom at his local high school in Gloucester County, Virginia, is seen in an undated photo. Grimm was born a female but identifies as a male.
The Cardinals and All-Pro defensive back Mathieu have... . An injured Arizona Cardinals' Tyrann Mathieu gets a hug from starting quarterback Carson Palmer during practice at the NFL football team's training camp Tuesday, Aug. 2, 2016, in Glendale, Ariz.
The U.S. Supreme Court says a Virginia school board can block a transgender male from using the boy's bathroom at his school until it decides whether to intervene in his case. A Virginia school board can block a transgender male from using the boys restroom when school starts next month, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Wednesday.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: August 3, 2016 CONTACT: J.P. Duffy or Alice Chao, FRC-NEWS or -372-6397 U.S. Supreme Court's Hold on School Bathroom Ruling Is Encouraging News for Schools Resisting Obama's Bathroom Edict WASHINGTON, D.C. Today, the U.S. Supreme Court put a hold on a court ruling that forced a Virginia school district to open a boy's bathroom to a biological girl who identifies as transgendered. Earlier this year, the Obama administration sent guidance to schools throughout the country directing school administrators to allow self-identified "transgender" students to use the restrooms and changing rooms of the student's choosing.
Hillary Clinton accepted the Democratic nomination for president with "humility, determination and boundless confidence in America's promise," taking her place as the first woman to lead a major presidential ticket Thursday night on the last day of the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia. She accepted the nomination with a speech that was in keeping with someone who presents herself as a practical, dogged, policy-oriented striver who gets knocked down and then gets straight back up.