How Fast Must My School Investigate a Title IX Complaint?
Under Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, “no person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under More...
Supreme Court may hear Aimee Stephens, transgender funeral home case
Yesterday the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in three cases that will determine whether LGBTQ workers have federal protections against sex-based discrimination in the workplace in the wake of transgender firing More...
Transgender, sexual orientation, freedom of conscience employment cases head to Supreme Court
Liberty Counsel filed two amicus briefs in support of employers in three Supreme Court cases regarding whether federal anti-discrimination laws should apply to “sexual orientation” and “gender identity.” The More...
Supreme Court rejects transgender bathroom, privacy case
The U.S. Supreme Court declined Tuesday to take up an important case involving a Pennsylvania school district that disregarded its students’ bodily privacy rights when it opened its high school locker rooms and More...
Thomas More Society’s Thomas Olp supports Trump administration’s stance on gender as ‘innately tied to one’s biological sex’
Breaking news that the Trump administration may be ready to adopt a uniform definition of gender based on biology and grounded in science, was well-received by the Thomas More Society, a national nonprofit law firm. More...
US Opens Investigation Into Sexual Assault of Minor Child in Georgia
The U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights has announced that it will investigate a complaint that Alliance Defending Freedom attorneys, along with a local family law attorney, filed against More...
Northeastern University: Professor’s ‘Why can’t we hate men’ op-ed used as evidence in Title IX case
A Washington Post op-ed back in June titled “Why Can’t We Hate Men?” is being used in a Title IX complaint filed against Northeastern University for allegedly discriminating against men. Title IX is an anti-sex More...
Michigan funeral home’s transgender case may be headed to the Supreme Court
Alliance Defending Freedom attorneys representing a Michigan funeral home filed a petition Friday with the U.S. Supreme Court that asks the court to review a lower-court decision that redefines the word “sex” More...
HHS files proposal to block federal funding for abortions, will cut $286 million in funds
The Trump administration is filing a proposal today to block facilities from receiving federal dollars for family planning if they are housed in the same building with organizations that provide abortions like Planned More...
Trump’s Education Department no longer interested in transgender bathroom complaints
The Trump Administration’s Education Department confirmed to the press that it will no longer investigate or take action on complaints filed by transgender students who say they are being discriminated against More...
Dartmouth expels the male victim in new rape case as he sues the woman and the school
The College Fix has published a shocking and insightful story from Dartmouth, where a male student has been expelled after he accused a female student of sexually assaulting him and threatening to accuse him of More...
Judges rules to block President Trumps policy against transgenders in the military
A U.S. District Court judge ruled against President Trump’s decision to bar transgender people from serving in the military. The policy appeared “not genuinely based on legitimate concerns regarding military More...
Virginia high school student transgender bathroom case goes back to lower court to be dismissed as student graduated
The Fourth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals canceled oral arguments and sent back the case involving Gavin Grimm, a girl who wants to “identify” as a boy and use restrooms for boys. The case is G.G. v. More...
SCOTUS rejects transgender bathroom case, Gavin Grimm’s attempt to use different locker room, restroom
The Supreme Court on Monday sent a case involving a transgender high school student from Gloucester, Va. back to a lower court, striking a blow to the case of Gavin Grimm, a transgender student who is seeking to More...
Liberty Counsel sues Jacksonville over gender identity rules, protective classes for sexual orientation
Liberty Counsel filed a lawsuit today to invalidate the so-called Jacksonville “Human Rights Ordinance” or “HRO” because it was adopted in violation of Florida Statutes, the Jacksonville More...
ADF, Illinois parents praise Trump administration’s move to protect bathroom, locker room and students’ privacy
Alliance Defending Freedom Senior Counsel Gary McCaleb spoke out regarding the Trump administration’s decision to rescind an Obama administration directive that disregarded the privacy, safety, and dignity of More...
Northwestern University faces Transgender controversy as transgender woman, now a man Adam Davies, seeks to join sorority
The transgender movement gets more complicated as a female Northwestern University freshman who recently came out as male now seeks to join a sorority. Adam Davies says he was drawn to the tenets of Greek life More...
ADF calls on SCOTUS to protect students’ privacy in Virginia transgender bathroom case
Alliance Defending Freedom filed a friend-of-the-court brief Tuesday with the U.S. Supreme Court in support of the student privacy policy of a Virginia school district. The Gloucester County School District policy More...
ADF, pro-life groups attack HHS move to prevent states from defunding Planned Parenthood
Alliance Defending Freedom, Susan B. Anthony List, and Charlotte Lozier Institute filed comments with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services opposing a new rule designed to prohibit states from defunding More...
Ohio transgender battle heats up as DOE threatens to pull school district funding over locker room, bathroom access
Alliance Defending Freedom attorneys are working with a Ohio school district to request a federal court stop the U.S. departments of Education and Justice threats to yank federal funding for special needs and underprivileged More...
