discrimination

Missouri Teenagers Protest a Transgender Student’s Use of the Girls’ Bathroom

Missouri Teenagers Protest a Transgender Student’s Use of the Girls’ Bathroom I can’t blame the students for protesting. Kids can be cruel, and kind of dumb. I certainly was. But parents and attorneys like Derrick Good display a shameful vacuity in couching their bigotry in terms like …

Tim Cook: Pro-discrimination ‘religious freedom’ laws are dangerous

Tim Cook: Pro-discrimination ‘religious freedom’ laws are dangerous Tim Cook, in an op-ed at the Washington Post: Our message, to people around the country and around the world, is this: Apple is open. Open to everyone, regardless of where they come from, what they look like, how they worship or …

Philly will consider adding LGBTQ protections to hate crimes ordinance

Philly will consider adding LGBTQ protections to hate crimes ordinanceRandy Lobasso, writing at Philly Weekly‘s PhillyNow blog: Last week, Councilwoman Blondell Reynolds Brown introduced a proposal along with Councilman Jim Kenney to add disability, sexual orientation and gender identity to the …