With an anti-trans sticker campaign persisting around the city, the council approved language that specifically calls out the stickers and lists several ways to support the transgender community.
Mid Vermont Christian School drew headlines last month after its girls basketball team forfeited a game rather than play against a team with a trans player. The school will now be banned from school athletic events.
The vigil took place amid a sharp rise in anti-transgender legislation and violence occurring across the United States. In February, the Human Rights Campaign reported tracking “340 anti-LGBTQ plus bills that have been introduced in state houses across the country” so far in 2023.
Vermont law allows transgender female students to play on girls’ sports teams.
This week’s hearings mark the Legislature’s first major deliberations over abortion-related policy since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned landmark Roe v. Wade case precedent last summer, eliminating the federal right to an abortion.
Rights & Democracy said it had received online threats in advance of an upcoming meeting. The group has worked to support students in the Randolph area in the wake of hate speech directed toward LGBTQ+ youth.
Vermont has good reason for adopting laws protecting those persecuted for their gender identity. We know that high school students from the LGBTQ+ community are far more likely to be bullied and harassed than straight students, and far more likely to suffer deep and lasting wounds as a result.
A transgender Vermont high school student who was the target of a transphobic hate campaign is breaking her silence.
“Santa Camp” is a new documentary from HBO Max about an effort to diversify who represents Santa Claus.
In online posts, John Helfant took aim at Vermont’s policy allowing any student to use the locker room associated with their gender identity. Such comments undercut his ability to serve the town and put trans kids at risk, according to the leader of a Vermont organization supporting LGBTQ+ people.