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SF supervisors settle 1 suit against trans income program

December 5, 2024

The SF Board of Supervisors this week voted to settle one of two lawsuits against Mayor London Breed and other city leaders brought by a conservative group due to a now-lapsed program that sought to provide guaranteed income to some transgender people.

Highlights of participants in Supreme Court case

by Lisa Keen
Dec 4, 2024

Some background information on those involved in the December 4 oral argument of U.S. v. Skrmetti.

Justices lean toward upholding gender care ban

by Lisa Keen
Dec 4, 2024

Outside the U.S. Supreme Court building Wednesday afternoon, lawyers supporting state bans on hormonal treatments for young people suffering gender dysphoria spoke more bluntly than they did in front of the justices during oral arguments.

Analysis: US Supreme Court to hear trans case

by Lisa Keen
Nov 26, 2024

The U.S. Supreme Court will soon take up an important legal question concerning whether states can ban medical treatment for gender dysphoria in youth.

Theodore Olson, conservative lawyer who won CA marriage case, dies

by Cynthia Laird
Nov 14, 2024

Theodore Olson, a conservative lawyer who helped George W. Bush secure the White House and later worked to overturn California's ban on same-sex marriage, died November 13.

3 to receive ABA's prestigious Stonewall Award

by Cynthia Laird
Oct 30, 2024

Three LGBTQ legal professionals, including the country's first transgender trial court judge, will receive the American Bar Association's prestigious Stonewall Award, the organization announced.

US Supreme Court to hear 2 LGBTQ-related cases

by Lisa Keen
Oct 8, 2024

The U.S. Supreme Court opened its 2024-25 session October 7 with at least 10 LGBTQ-related petitions before it.

Local LGBTQ+ Media Giving Day is October 8

by Dana Piccoli, News Is Out
Oct 7, 2024

News Is Out, a collaboration of six LGBTQ+ media representing more than 250 collective years of experience covering the community, is launching the first Local LGBTQ+ Media Giving Day Tuesday, Oct. 8, 2024 during LGBTQ History Month.

Judge permanently blocks school district's forced outing policy

by John Ferrannini
Sep 11, 2024

A Southern California judge has permanently blocked a school district from enforcing its forced outing policy for transgender students.

US Supreme Court to hear trans health care case

by Cynthia Laird
Jun 24, 2024

The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to decide whether Tennessee's ban on gender-affirming care violates the Constitution.

Bonta defends decision in Banko Brown case

by Cynthia Laird
Jun 20, 2024

State Attorney General Rob Bonta on Thursday defended his office's decision that found San Francisco DA Brooke Jenkins did not abuse her discretion in deciding not to prosecute a former Walgreens security guard in the shooting of an unarmed trans man.

Panel confirms gay CA appellate presiding justice Martinez

by Matthew S. Bajko
May 14, 2024

Almost two decades after he received his law license in the Golden State, gay California Presiding Justice Gonzalo Martinez is now the fourth out jurist to preside over one of the state's appellate benches.

Political Notes: LGBTQ groups seek judicial appointment for bi attorney Cleesattle after she lost her March San Diego judge race

by Matthew S. Bajko
Apr 29, 2024

A quartet of LGBTQ groups is pressing Governor Gavin Newsom to appoint a bisexual attorney to the San Diego Superior Court after she lost her race on the March 5 primary ballot for a seat on the Southern California bench.

CA judge agrees with Bonta that ballot measure attacks rights of transgender youth

by John Ferrannini
Apr 23, 2024

A judge has sided with the state of California in the matter of a conservative group that sued over the title and summary Attorney General Rob Bonta assigned to its ballot measure that would strip rights from transgender minors.

Civil rights groups speak out on California same-sex wedding cake case

by John Ferrannini
Apr 17, 2024

A Bay Area legal group was one of several organizations that filed amicus briefs in support of the state's appeal of a lower court decision that a Bakersfield bakery has a right not to sell a wedding cake to a same-sex couple.

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