The SPLC is requesting documents from the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) and the Department of Justice about a Trump administration decision to weaken protections for transgender people who are incarcerated by requiring that they be housed according to their “biological sex.”
While many teenagers were figuring out what to wear to senior prom, Britney had already chosen the outfit that perfectly suited her personal style: a black tuxedo – with matching suspenders – and a bright yellow bowtie.
Today is Transgender Day of Visibility, a celebration of the lives of transgender people.
The SPLC filed a motion today asking a court to enforce an order requiring the complete dissolution of a fraudulent gay-to-straight "conversion therapy" provider that the court ordered to shut down nearly three years ago, but that continues to operate under a different name.
When Jay met his foster parents, he was a balding, underweight boy who was afraid he wouldn’t be fed.
The Southern Poverty Law Center and its allies filed a motion today to defend a ban on conversion therapy for minors enacted by Tampa, Florida, and challenged by an anti-LGBT hate group attempting to allow the discredited practice that attempts to change a person’s sexual orientation or gender identity
We applaud the federal court’s decision to bar President Trump from changing the government policy that allows transgender people to serve in the military.
Today, HB 1523 went into effect in Mississippi. The law allows business owners and government workers to refuse service to LGBT people based on their religious beliefs.
The following statement is regarding a memo issued by the U.S. Attorney General’s Office to department heads and United States attorneys Wednesday night asserting that Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 does not protect transgender workers from employment discrimination.
A transgender woman who was beaten and threatened with death when she refused to collect extortion money for a Guatemalan drug cartel, was raped and tortured by Guatemalan police, and received death threats from her coworkers because of her gender identity, has been granted asylum in the United States, the SPLC announced today.
