by H20 Staff | May 25, 2020 | LGBTQIA
Very recently, a video has materialized which shows two Kansas City police officers brutalizing a transgender woman as they arrested her. According to an article in The Guardian, the assault was captured on video on May 24th of 2019, a full year ago. In it, the...
by H20 Staff | Feb 27, 2020 | LGBTQIA
Trans rights are human rights. We must push for the passage of the federal Equality Act to amend federal civil rights laws to prohibit discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity. We must also ensure that medical treatment related to gender...
by H20 Staff | Nov 20, 2019 | LGBTQIA
Today is Transgender Day of Remembrance, and the genesis of this period of reflection came about in reaction to the murder of Rita Hester in 1998, a Black transgender woman living in Boston. Her case was reopened by the Boston Police 2006, but the case is still...
by H20 Staff | Oct 8, 2019 | LGBTQIA
Today, the U.S. Supreme Court begins hearing arguments on whether Title VII’s ban on workplace sex discrimination protects LGBTQ people from discrimination. Of particular focus is the case of a transgender funeral home worker who was fired because she is...