Judge orders D.C. high school to recognize anti-LGBTQ student group

It is Decision 2024! Nominate your favorites in our 2024 Best of LGBTQ DC categories through August 29th. The top 5 nominees from each category will become a finalist with voting starting September 9th. Our 2024 Best of LGBTQ DC winners will be announced at the Best of LGBTQ DC Awards Party on Thursday, October 17th and our special issue will come out on Friday, October 18th.

Supreme Court's recent ruling on transgender rights in education is a giant mess that has left everyone confused, a legal analyst has said.Steve Vladeck, a law professor at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C, wrote that the court's ruling on a pair of emergency applicants raises more questions than it answers.The controversy involves the federal civil rights legislation, Title IX, which was introduced in 1972 to end discrimination against women in education.The Biden administration introduced a "final rule for Title IX," which would use those protections to end "sex stereotypes, sexual orientation, gender identity, and sex characteristics."It has been met with fierce opposition in many conservative states, where parents argue it will lead to transgender students in women's toilets and women's sports teams.In two lawsuits—Department of Education v. Louisiana and Cardona v. Tennessee—lower federal courts temporarily blocked the entirety of the new rules while the cases play out in appeals court.The Supreme Court agreed to hear an emergency case from the Department of Education, which is seeking to lift those lower court emergency injunctions.In a 5-4 majority decision on Friday, the Supreme Court declined a Department of Education emergency request to reinstate portions of the new rules that are not related to gender identity and sexual orientation, with the majority writing that they were not given "a sufficient basis to disturb the lower courts' interim conclusions."Conservative Neil Gorsuch joined liberal Justices Elena Kagan, Sonia Sotomayor and Ketanji Brown Jackson in dissent, arguing that the gender identity and sexual orientation rules should be paused during the appeals because they are related to alleged "injuries" suffered by the states, but the rest of the new rules should resume.Writing in his Supreme Court blog, One First, Vladeck explained that he wanted to focus on Friday's Department of Education v. Louisiana case because "it was literally the

posted on X, “sometimes ill [sic] be quietly going about my day and then ill [sic] remember the time blake lively said this to a journalist.”He then posted an image of her quote: “I hope to have a few girls one day. If not girls, they better be trannies. Because I have some amazing shoes and bags and stories that need to be appreciated.”The term “tranny” has been deemed defamatory by some members of the transgender community, as pointed out on GLAAD’s website.Followers took to the comment section to voice their disapproval.“Not Lady Deadpool…” one user wrote, while another reacted, “This is disgusting.”However, some fans also defended Lively’s choice of words, with one social media user sharing, “There was absolutely nothing wrong with that word when she said it, now people are oversensitive.

Kamala Harris. She is expected to become the first Black and South Asian woman to receive a major party nomination. The convention will also feature many Black queer celebrities, from journalists to social media influencers.Harris has a long history of support for the LGBTQ+ community, dating back to her days officiating some of the first same-sex marriages in the country in 2004 as San Francisco’s District Attorney.

It’s Monday (again). A lot happened over the weekend. Here’s just some of what you might have missed…HE’S THE FULL PACKAGE: Jonathan Bailey revealed how he picked his prosthetic penis to film intimate scenes in Fellow Travelers.