Gavin Grimm: What Supreme Court Announcement Means for Trans Rights
It was supposed to be the first transgender-rights case to make it to the nation’s highest court – so what happens now?
It was supposed to be the first transgender-rights case to make it to the nation’s highest court – so what happens now?
In one week alone, four transgender black women were murdered in the United States. So far this year, there have been seven murders of transgender people, well above last year’s figure. And 2016 saw the murder of 23 transgender and gender nonconforming people, the highest ever recorded by groups that monitor this violence.
Intersectionality, a term coined in the 1980s by UCLA and Columbia law professor Kimberle Crenshaw, seeks to define the overlapping oppressions that people who are part of multiple marginalized groups experience.
The National Organization for Women has adapted with the times.
Donald Trump, Jeff Sessions and Betsy DeVos are choosing to ignore Title IX in order to please their religious conservative base and to further an overarching white supremacist, misogynist agenda.