James Esseks
James D. Esseks is Director of the ACLU Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender & AIDS Project.
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Views Tuesday, October 08, 2019 What You Need to Know About Today’s LGBTQ Rights Arguments Before SCOTUS Today, the Supreme Court will hear arguments in three cases in which the Trump administration is urging the court to rule that it’s legal to fire workers for being LGBTQ. For the LGBTQ civil rights movement, this is a big moment. These cases will affect more people than the Supreme Court’s decision... Read more |
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Views Wednesday, October 24, 2018 The Trump Administration Is Trying to Erase Trans People, But the Law Clearly Protects Them Over the weekend, The New York Times revealed that officials within the Trump administration are pushing for a definition of the term “sex” in federal civil rights laws that would eliminate non-discrimination protections for transgender people. Transgender people and their families understandably... Read more |
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Views Sunday, October 08, 2017 Think Religiously Motivated Discrimination Can't Affect You? Guess Again. Aimee Stephens knows first-hand how religiously-motivated discrimination can wreck your life. Aimee worked as a funeral director for a Michigan funeral home for six years. Aimee is a woman who is transgender, but for six years she went to work presenting as a man, while she struggled to be able to... Read more |
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Views Thursday, August 10, 2017 How Could You Represent Someone Like Milo Yiannopoulos? Milo Yiannopoulos trades on outrage. He is a professional provocateur who has turned insulting different groups of people into a specialty. He has claimed that the very existence of transgender people is the product of delusional thinking . He has compared Black Lives Matter activists to the KKK... Read more |
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Views Thursday, April 21, 2016 Anti-Trans Bathroom Bills Have Nothing to Do With Privacy and Everything To Do With Fear and Hatred If social conservatives in Tennessee get their way , the state will soon become the second in the nation to use the coercive power of the government to force people into bathrooms that violate their very sense of self or risk punishment. Legislation targeting trans students pending in both houses... Read more |
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Views Sunday, June 01, 2014 Transgender Health Care is a Human Right The big LGBT-news that the mainstream media is buzzing about this week is that transgender actress Laverne Cox became the first transgender person to grace the cover of TIME magazine . Her recognition and the accompanying cover story, " The Transgender Tipping Point ," are terrific moments for the... Read more |