Other LGBTQ+ advocates echoed Oakley, emphasizing that executive orders don’t create or change laws. “Discrimination based on sex, including discrimination against transgender, nonbinary, and intersex people, remains illegal, and it cannot be legalized through this...
Instead, after his winning campaign pledge to Make America Great Again, Trump’s second-term priority is moving quickly to establish who will benefit — and who gets to be an American. “Trump and all the people...
Still female and LGBTQ+ service members and veterans are fearful of the culture Hegseth could promote that would make discrimination and harassment acceptable, said Jackii Wang, a senior legislative analyst for the National Women's Law...
But civil rights advocates said the department’s core function is to protect the rights of all students. Many who fought for LGBTQ students’ rights during the Obama administration are alarmed. The 2016 guidance on rights...
There was a downside to remote work early on, especially for working mothers, said Jasmine Tucker, vice president of research at the National Women’s Law Center. She had a 20-month-old at home when the pandemic...
Legal and advocacy groups swiftly condemned the order, which will likely be challenged in court. Shiwali Patel, senior director of safe and inclusive schools at the National Women’s Law Center, said groups, including her’s, are...
