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The Transgender Education Network of Texas (TENT) works to further gender diversity equity in the U.S. state of Texas. [239] As of 2016, the organization was registered as a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization in the United States. [239] TENT was founded in 2002 as the Austin Transgender Ordinance Initiative. [240]
Among the landmark civil cases on gay rights in housing is Braschi v Stahl Associates Co. In 1989 New York Court of Appeals case that decided that plaintiff Miguel Braschi, the surviving partner of a same-sex relationship, counted as "family" under New York law and was thus able to continue living in a rent controlled apartment belonging to the ...
Some states granted full adoption rights to same-sex couples, while others banned same-sex adoption or only allowed one partner in a same-sex relationship to adopt the biological child of the other. On 31 March 2016, Federal District Court struck down Mississippi's ban on same-sex couple adoptions. [1]
During arguments at the U.S. Supreme Court in this week's major transgender rights case, liberal Justice Sonia Sotomayor told the lawyer defending Tennessee's ban on gender-affirming medical care ...
As the Texas Legislature ramps up its 2023 work, two replicas of Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay” law sit pending before the House. These bills seek to prohibit basic, common-sense curricula ...
V.L. v. E.L., 577 U.S. 404 (2016), is a case decided by the Supreme Court of the United States concerning the adoption rights of same-sex couples. [49] In 2007, a Georgia Superior Court granted adoption rights to V.L., the partner of E.L., the woman who gave birth to their three children.
Hundreds of LGBTQ residents and their supporters rallied and waved a 700-foot LGBTQ pride flag over the Ringling Bridge in Sarasota in January 2024 in opposition to Florida's so-called 'Don't Say ...
Opponents of adoption by same-sex couples have argued that LGBT parenting adversely affects children. However, research consistently shows that gay and lesbian parents are as fit and capable as heterosexual parents, and their children are as psychologically healthy and well-adjusted as those reared by heterosexual parents. [1] [2] [3]