Sep 21, 2020 | Civil Rights, Legal Intelligencer, LGBT Law, Transgender Issues
By 2020, Pennsylvania will join a growing number of pioneering states including Washington, Arkansas, Nevada, and Maine allowing driver’s license holders to choose from three gender options, male, female, and the gender-neutral option of X. For those people who...
Aug 10, 2018 | Transgender Issues
The state of Ohio’s House of Representatives is considering legislation that forces educators, therapists, and social workers to out transgender minors to their parents or face fourth-degree felony charges. For those who display characteristics in opposition to their...
Aug 2, 2018 | Transgender Issues
Ohio’s House of Representatives is considering legislation that forces educators, therapists and social workers to out transgender minors to their parents or face fourth-degree felony charges. For those who display characteristics in opposition to their assigned...
Aug 4, 2014 | Civil Rights, LGBT Law, Philadelphia Gay News, Transgender Issues
We just marked the anniversary of the Stonewall Riots, which sparked the modern gay-rights movement, with Pride events in New York City and San Francisco. The events featured transgender celebrities Laverne Cox and Janet Mock as grand marshals; the symbolic inclusion...
Apr 16, 2014 | Civil Rights, Corporate Law, DOMA, Legal Intelligencer, LGBT Law, Philly Gay Lawyer Media, Transgender Issues
The legal landscape for LGBT people today is quickly changing and hard to predict, but the trend over the last few years has been overwhelmingly positive—from the U.S. Supreme Court decision overturning the federal Defense of Marriage Act and California’s...
Apr 7, 2014 | LGBT Law, Philly Gay Lawyer Media, Transgender Issues
The Legal Blitz’s Steve Silver interviews PhillyGayLawyer Angela Giampolo about Transgender athlete Chloie Jonsson’s California discrimination case against CrossFit. Original...