This court decision pushes Alabama one step closer to the modern age, whether they like it or not. (Sure enough, the state's attorney general plans to appeal.) Alabama is one of the eight remaining U.S. states that require transgender people to undergo...
Real ID Deadline Extended Until 2021 Amid Coronavirus Outbreak
This delay is good news in particular for LGBTQ people who might need to do some work to get their documentation in order, and are currently unable to leave the house in order to do so. The deadline for Real IDs has been extended until October 2021. The move was...
Our Attention May Be Elsewhere, But The Transphobes Never Sleep
In Idaho, two bills attempting to roll back civil rights for the state's transgender community are headed to the governor's desk. Advocates urge him to veto both, but with the news consumed by coronavirus, will their pleas be heard? There's no denying it: coronavirus...
Birth Certificate Modernization Bills Pass Both Houses of General Assembly
Good news for Virginia's trans and non-binary community -- bills allowing non-binary gender markers on state IDs and changing of name and gender markers on birth certificates are headed to the governor's desk. Being transgender or non-binary in our less-than-accepting...
Senate Advances Bill Allowing Transgender People to Change Birth Certificate Without Undergoing Surgery
Senator Jennifer Boysko has introduced her bill to modernize the gender-marker change process for Virginia's trans community before, but with Democrats in control of the General Assembly, it might actually become law this time. The Senate passed a bill earlier this...
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