2 posts tagged ‘american civil liberties union’

• Citing Anonymous Complaint, Police Showed Up at a Middle School to Search for an LGBTQ Book

  Jezebel, Dec 21, 2023

  On December 8, a police officer showed up at W.E.B. Du Bois Regional Middle School in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, and searched a teacher’s classroom for the novel Gender Queer. The search came after the Great Barrington Police Department received an anonymous complaint that the book allegedly contained obscene… Read more...

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• Teens and Doctors Appeal Ban on Gender-Affirming Care to the Supreme Court

  Jezebel, Nov 2, 2023

  On Wednesday, a group of transgender young people asked the Supreme Court to block a Tennessee law that bans minors from getting gender-affirming care. Lawyers in Kentucky announced they’d be filing a similar petition soon. If the court agrees to hear either case, it would be the first time they’ve weighed in on… Read more...

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