SUMMERVILLE, S.C. (AP) – The U.S. Education Department says a South Carolina school district has agreed to let a transgender elementary student use the restroom with which she identifies. The Department’s Office for Civil Rights said in a statement that Dorchester District 2 had violated Title IX, which protects students from sex-based discrimination. The office said the district originally had…
North Carolina Goes Head to Head with the U.S. Justice Department over Transgender Rights. Sara D. Davis/Getty Images North Carolina lawmakers and the U.S. Department of Justice filed dueling lawsuits this week, going up against each other over House Bill 2, the state’s controversial “bathroom bill.” NC Gov. Pat McCrory, who signed the bill into law in March, said Monday…
North Carolina has filed a lawsuit today against the Department of Justice in an effort to push back against a warning that House Bill 2, a controversial law that critics have called “anti-LGBT,” violates the Civil Rights Act. Gov. Pat McCrory is expected to respond publicly at 5 p.m. today after an agreement to postpone his reply could not be…
North Carolina’s Republican leaders are showing no signs of backing down from their new bathroom rules despite the U.S. Justice Department’s declaration that they violate federal civil rights laws and could cost the state dearly in lost education funding. Gov. Pat McCrory called the Justice Department’s threat — which gives the state and its university system until the close of…
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina senators are taking more testimony on a bill limiting the bathroom choices for transgender people, as debate on similar bills continues across the South. Most of the people at Wednesday’s hearing opposed the measure. Only a fraction of attendees could fit inside the room. A larger room has been reserved Thursday. Republican Sen. Lee…
