Recent news round-up

Good News

• TV’s first out transgender child actor on ‘Modern Family’
• Appeals court rules against Kansas in voting rights case
• School adopts gender-neutral homecoming court, so there might be no ‘king’ or ‘queen’
• New York City Starts $5 Million Fund for Women in Film and Theater
• Chad, Niger forces kill 123 Boko Haram in crackdown - Niger

Bad News

• Poor, Transgender and Dressed for Arrest I'm surprised this law has not been found to be unconstitutional by now.

Recent news round-up, Part 2

Good News

• California requires single-stall public bathrooms to be open to all
• California Expands Equal Pay Law To Include Protections For Race And Ethnicity
• Waynesboro man convicted in same-sex kidnap case
• Norman Rockwell Museum has has received a $1.5 million grant from the George Lucas Family Foundation
• France 'conducts operations against IS'

Bad News

• Singapore rebel teen jailed for anti-religion posts
• Myanmar man jailed for calling president 'crazy' on Facebook

Recent news round-up

Good News

• Judge orders Georgia to release database records on voter registration
• California governor signs bill dumping rape-reporting limit
• Ethics panel rebukes W.Va. Rep. McKinley over business name
• After 170 years, remains of US troops return from Mexico

Bad News

• Halifax trans football player says 'media attention' a reason for McDonald's firing
  

Today's news round-up

Good News

• Transgender Teen Becomes the First to Join His High School Football Team
• Government severs ties with for-profit colleges accreditor
• Three Phoenix policemen resign after making motorist eat marijuana
• UN holds first leaders' meeting on LGBT rights
• Kentucky's GOP governor overridden in feud with Democrat

Today's news round-up

Good News

• Czech court frees Russian artist facing extradition, may seek asylum Russia is not a democracy.
• County to pay $4 million in sheriff's racial profiling case
• Affidavit allowed for North Dakota voters lacking ID

Bad News

• Lawsuit: Transgender inmate raped at New Orleans' new jail
• Judge dismisses challenge to N. Carolina gay-marriage law

Today's news round-up

Good News

• Mayor Roberts: Charlotte City Council won’t consider LGBT ordinance repeal Monday
• Chicago police to undergo mandatory 'de-escalation' training
• Boy who wanted to try on skirts found ‘Justice’ in this North Carolina store
• Seattle passes new scheduling rules for hourly workers

Bad News

• L.A. Woman Gender-Profiled & Escorted From Female Bathroom
• Federal court OKs Christian prayers at county board meetings

Recent news round-up, Part 2

Good News

• From He to She in First Grade
• Transgender Briton is UK's first female combat soldier: report
• Belgium sees first case of minor being granted euthanasia

Bad News

• Boko Haram atrocities haunt Cameroon's displaced

Recent news round-up, Part 1

Good News

• Serbian police cordon off central Belgrade to protect pride march
• Spotify adds third gender to registration forms for non-binary users
• Museum in New York acquires Billie Jean King archive

Bad News

• Trans Woman Murdered in Baltimore Is 21st This Year, Nearing 2015's Total
• A Trump Empire Built on Inside Connections and $885 Million in Tax Breaks
• Some Republicans Acknowledge Leveraging Voter ID Laws for Political Gain

Recent news round-up, Part 1

Good News

• ACC to relocate athletic championships from North Carolina
• SoCon suggests it may move hoops from North Carolina
• Court denies Virginia GOP's challenge on felon voting rights
• Serbian transgender army veteran celebrates new beginnings
• Man sentenced in $31 million mortgage scam conspiracy case
• McCartney, Starr reunite on blue carpet for Beatles documentary

Bad News

• Transgender patients face fear and stigma in the doctor's office

Today's news round-up, Part 2

Good News

• Chelsea Manning ends hunger strike, Army agrees to treatment: ACLU
• Thai junta to end trial of civilians by military courts But royal defamation is still a crime there.
• Facebook, Twitter join network to tackle fake news

Bad News

• Indian girls attacked with acid days after landmark death sentence verdict

Today's news round-up

Good News

• North Carolina to lose college championships over transgender law
• Instagram lets users filter offensive comments
• Ohio University removing Ailes' name, returning gift

Bad News

• Study details sugar industry attempt to shape science
• Official: Circumstances suggest hate crime in mosque fire

Yesterday's news round-up

Good News

• Lafayette [Indiana] adds transgender antidiscrimination protections
• Seattle Children's to open Gender Clinic in October
• Appeals court blocks proof-of-citizenship voting requirement

Bad News

• Some police departments shelve body cameras, cite data costs

Recent news round-up, Part 3

Good News

• Bolivia's transgender citizens celebrate new ID cards
• King of Norway’s incredible speech on gay rights goes viral
• New York City’s Firefighting Arsenal Will Soon Include Drones

Bad News

• Texas wedding venue places ad telling same-sex couples they’re not welcome
• Tanzania threatens to ban groups supporting gay rights

Recent news round-up

Good News

• Former St. Louis prosecutor who helped cover up beating of suspect loses her law license
• Mariners apologize to LGBTQ community, plan to train staff
• Atty General Ken Paxton shares dinner with transgender boy and his family
• Court rules search warrant in Terrebonne blog case unconstitutional
• Hometown of Kim Davis just threw its first ever Pride celebration

Bad News

• Suspected Boko Haram militants riding camels kill five in Niger

Today's news round-up

Good News

• This Pro Bono Clinic Guides Transgender People Through Legal Bureaucracy
• City supports LGBT newspaper after explosion destroys box
• Boston police rolling out body-worn cameras
• Libyan forces push into last IS-held areas of Sirte

Bad News

• California legal setback fails to discourage tenure opponents
• Visitor misbehavior abounds as US parks agency turns 100

Today's news round-up

Good News

• Transgender North Carolinians get restroom-access win
• Long-time Arizona sheriff Joe Arpaio faces tough re-election bid He belongs in jail, not running a jail. UPDATE: Justice Department will probe metro Phoenix sheriff Arpaio
• Biden announces new funding for Amtrak Northeast Corridor, Amtrak awards Alstom $2.0 bn deal for high-speed trains
• France burkini: Highest court suspends ban
• Court: Michigan sex offender rules cannot be retroactive
• Federal judge won't immediately block California vaccination law for schoolchildren, one of strictest in US for eliminating exemptions based on religious, personal beliefs

Bad News

• Maine governor leaves obscene voicemail on lawmaker's phone

Today's news round-up

Good News

• P&G hires transgender model for ad campaign Rehires.
• Phoenix 1st Arizona city to offer transgender-inclusive benefits to city workers
• Gender-neutral restrooms now available at Southeast Missouri State University
• Georgia Man Who Threw Boiled Water on Gay Men Gets 40 Years
• Mississippi Islamic State recruit gets 8 years in prison

Bad News

• Private lives are exposed as WikiLeaks spills its secrets
• Why Conservative States Handpicked This Texas Judge for Transgender Bathroom Challenge
• Lesbian couple upset after getting crude joke inside their pizza box Domino's pizza is the worst. This doesn't help.

Recent news round-up, Part 2

Good News

• No appeal in Indiana woman's overturned feticide conviction
• California Court Decision Keeps Teacher Tenure Protections
• Ruling: Grad students at private universities can unionize

Bad News

• States file another lawsuit over Obama transgender rules
• Appeals court: Week of early voting shouldn't return to Ohio
• Woman guest editing @ireland Twitter account gets racist and sexist abuse

Recent news round-up, Part 1

Good News

• Virginia governor restores voting rights to 13,000 felons
• Anti-abortion boss to recuse self from case at medical board
• Suit alleging Catholic school gay marriage bias to proceed
• AG: Ex-Milwaukee officers investigate fatal police shooting
• Woman settles lawsuit, now OK to use '8THEIST' license plate
• Nikki Hamblin, Abbey D’Agostino awarded rare Olympic medal
• Nigeria: Air raid 'fatally wounds' Boko Haram leader If it's true it would be good--though these groups seem to be able to replace leaders without that much difficulty.

Bad News

• U.S. judge grants nationwide injunction to halt Obama transgender policy 
• GOP senator suggests swapping college instructors for videos

Recent news round-up

Good News

• Clinton leads Trump by eight points: Reuters/Ipsos poll
• Illinois latest state to expand domestic workers' rights
• Hundreds protest in Istanbul over transgender woman's murder
• Ole Miss won’t play 'Dixie' at football games anymore: What changed?
• Libyan forces say they capture mosque, prison from Islamic State in Sirte

Bad News

• Egypt state TV orders female hosts to lose weight
• 'Un-Islamic' cultural heritage in jihadists' crosshairs
• Galaxy’s Robbie Rogers says opponent used homophobic slur
• Man accused of unprovoked attack on interracial couple
• An Ethiopian medalist just led a protest that could land him in jail