Seventeen states have hate crime laws that cover offenses targeting people on the basis of gender identity, but those provisions have led to few prosecutions.
About 150 homosexuals and transgenders were detained in Baku during police raids conducted in mid-September. Over a third of them were arrested for up to 30 days, the rest were fined.
In an order that undercuts federal protections for LGBT people, Attorney General Jeff Sessions issued a sweeping directive to agencies Friday to do as much as possible to accommodate those who claim their religious freedoms are being violated.
The ACLU of Washington filed a federal discrimination lawsuit against PeaceHealth St. Joseph Medical Center for allegedly refusing to cover transgender medical services for a Bellingham family and their 17-year-old son.
