by Sarah Andrews | Aug 17, 2017 | Legal Developments, Transgender
This week, the Texas Legislature ended its special 30-day summer session without lawmakers passing the “bathroom bill”, a controversial measure that sought to bar transgender people from using the public restrooms associated with their gender identity. The bill, which...
by Sarah Andrews | Aug 1, 2017 | Headline News, Legal Developments, Transgender
While debate on the Bathroom Bill continues, some transgender men and women, who fear for their safety, say they would consider updating the gender on their birth certificates to reflect the gender they identify with, but are finding the process to do so to be...
by Sarah Andrews | Jul 24, 2017 | Headline News, Legal Developments, Transgender
The Association of American Law Schools announced that they would be moving a 2018 conference from Austin to Chicago, following the Texas Legislature’s passage of the controversial Bathroom Bill and another bill banning sanctuary cities in the state. Last Friday,...
by Jennifer Childress - Editor of the Legal Digest | Jun 8, 2017 | Transgender
The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago issued a decision siding with a transgender student who filed suit over using the boys’ bathroom at school. Ashton Whitaker, a high school senior, is a transgender male who asked to use the boys’ restroom at school. ...
by Sarah Andrews | May 23, 2017 | Transgender
Note: As of Wednesday morning, the House version of the bill is back with the Senate, where lawmakers are fighting to resurrect their version of the bathroom bill (SB6), which would apply the restrictions on transgender bathroom usage to any public restroom in the...
by Sarah Andrews | Apr 26, 2017 | Transgender
A 7-year-old transgender girl was all ready to testify at a Texas House State Affairs Committee Hearing this week. But as the session went on deep into the night, the girl fell asleep before her turn to speak came at 2 a.m. According to the Texas Tribune, Libby...
