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ACLU attorney Jay Kaplan dismantles the myths behind trans sports bans.

How Two U.S. Supreme Court Decisions Have Impacted My Life as a Woman and the Mother of a Trans Teenager

Uniformly Proud, Feeling Betrayed, and Continuing Upward 

The community must rally together in the face of Trump's anti-trans agenda.

By quickly issuing a flurry of executive orders that attempt to take away the rights of trans people, President Donald Trump has made clear during his administration’s first few weeks that he intends to continue his bullying ways – ignoring the law and trampling constitutional rights – now that he h

Rule #1 in fighting Trump’s unconstitutional orders: Don’t concede power. Period.

Tthe Biden Administration’s Department of Education issued new federal regulations under Title IX. Conservative groups in 26 states filed suit, seeking to bar the rules from being enforced by the Education Department, and have won preliminary injunctions against that enforcement.

If anyone doubts the importance of Michigan’s Supreme Court race this November, and the massive impact it can have on our state’s LGBTQ+ residents, I suggest taking a close look at some of the recent decisions the Court has handed down. Doing so will drive home the importance of this race.

In Michigan and across the country there has been an unprecedented proliferation of attempts to ban books. In response, the ACLU of Michigan has created Hostile Territory: Mapping Michigan’s Anti-LGBTQ+ Movement & other Government Acts of Censorship.