EEOC Seeks to Drop Transgender Discrimination Cases February 24, 2025 By Claire Savage and Alexandra Olson Signaling a major shift in civil rights enforcement, the federal agency that enforces workplace anti-discrimination laws has moved to dismiss...
Michigan Culver’s Restaurants Sued for Discriminating Against Transgender Employee October 29, 2024 Five related entities operating Culver’s restaurants in Michigan violated federal law when they fired a transgender employee and three of...
Kansas to Pay $50K Settlement Over a Transgender Highway Patrol Employee’s Firing August 20, 2024 By John Hanna TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas will pay $50,000 to settle a federal anti-discrimination lawsuit filed by a former state Highway...
Drag Performers and LGBTQ+ Advocates Sue to Block Texas Law Expanding Ban on Sexual Performances August 4, 2023 By Jim Vertuno AUSTIN, Texas (AP) – A group of drag performers and LGBTQ+ rights advocates have filed a federal lawsuit seeking to...
Vermont School Settles 1st Amendment Suit by Coach Over Comments on Trans Athlete June 7, 2023 A Vermont school district will reinstate a middle school soccer coach who was suspended for misgendering a transgender female athlete,...
Trans Worker Says Texas-Based Railroad Wouldn’t Promote Her May 17, 2023 OMAHA, Neb. (AP) – A former BNSF worker who was named one of the railroad’s employees of the year in...
EEOC Civil Rights Suit Accuses New York Pizzeria of Harassing Transgender Cook April 3, 2023 T C Wheelers, Inc., which operates T.C. Wheelers Bar & Pizzeria in Tonawanda, New York, violated federal law when management...
Federal Lawsuit Challenges Oklahoma Anti-Trans Bathroom Law September 9, 2022 By Sean Murphy, The Associated Press Civil rights groups filed a federal lawsuit on behalf of three transgender Oklahoma schoolchildren, arguing the state’s new law requiring...
Missouri Jury Awards Transgender Student $4 Million December 16, 2021 A Kansas City-area school district must pay a transgender student $4 million after it refused to let him use the...
Minnesota Furniture Retailer Fined $60,000 for Denying Hire to Transgender Applicant October 28, 2021 Frizzell Furniture, a furniture retailer with locations in northern Minnesota, has agreed to pay $60,000 and has committed to providing...