Across the United States, millions of seniors are getting ready to walk across the stage in graduation ceremonies. This time can bittersweet for transgender students. Two instances of transgender students, in different parts of the country, have reminded us that schools can often fail to support transgender students and treat them with respect.
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11/05/12
Over 100 faith leaders – including lay people, divinity students and clergy – met last Saturday in Harlem for an insp
11/05/12
The Daily beast highlights the impact of revised photo-ID laws on trans voters.
11/05/12
Pastor Luke Robinson of Quinn Chapel AME Church in Frederick, Maryland (speaking at an anti-Question 6 event yesterda
11/02/12
Maine GOP House Member Stacey Fitts is telling voters in a pro-marriage equality ad "I've always been a Republican.
10/26/12
President Barack Obama's campaign released a statement this afternoon in support of Question 6, Maryland's same-sex m
10/25/12
After three years of steady decline, hate crimes in Los Angeles County rose 15 percent last year, including crimes motivated by anti-LGBT bias.
10/25/12
Lawyers for transgender inmate Ophelia De' Lonta in Virginia presented her case before the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals on Wednesday, asking that a lower court ruling that denied her state funding for surgery be reversed.
10/25/12
The New Jersey Division of Civil Rights ruled that the Ocean Grove Camp Meeting Association discriminated against a lesbian couple in 2007 when it denied their application to hold a civil union ceremony at its boardwalk pavilion.