This year, state lawmakers also want to restrict transgender students’ sports participation in Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Kentucky, North Dakota, and New Hampshire. Several more states are weighing separate proposed bans on certain medical treatment for transgender minors, including Alabama, Indiana, Missouri, Mississippi, South Carolina and Texas
US: Executive Order on Preventing and Combating Discrimination on the Basis of Gender Identity or Sexual Orientation
US: House committee hears emotional arguments on transgender bills
US: Betsy DeVos fires horrifying parting shot at trans kids before resigning from Trump’s cabinet
US: Department of Education Publishes Memorandum Misconstruing Supreme Court’s Bostock Decision
The Human Rights Campaign responded to the Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights publication of a memorandum misconstruing the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Bostock v. Clayton County, prohibiting discrimination against LGBTQ people, and its application to Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972.
India: Rs 500-crore plan drawn up for welfare of transgenders
The ministry of social justice and empowerment has earmarked ₹500 crore – ₹ 100 crore per year – for the the welfare of transgenders which includes student scholarships, skilling programmes to provide livelihood opportunities, setting up of welfare homes and health initiatives, among other measures.
India: LGBTQ, women: Draft science policy aims for inclusion, equity
Hungary: Ruling Parties Vote in 9th Constitutional Amendment
Hungary amends constitution to redefine family, limits gay adoption
Hungarian government launches crusade against LGBTQI people
Brazil: Invisible violence: the exclusion of LGBTI blacks
The dossier “ What is the color of the invisible? - The human rights situation of the black LGBTI population in Brazil “, prepared by the International Institute on Race, Equality and Human Rights, denounces the invisibility of the black LGBTI population from a social, political and economic point of view.