Share Blue - The Trump administration is continuing its war on the rights of trans people on all fronts. This time, it's in front of the U.S. Supreme Court. This term, the Supreme Court will hear a case, R.G. & G.R. Harris Funeral Homes Inc. v. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), to determine whether trans employees can be fired simply for being trans.
A lower court ruled last year that Harris Funeral Homes broke the law when they fired Aimee Stephens, a woman who began transitioning in 2013. Harris Funeral Homes is owned by conservative Christians who objected to people transitioning. The company also forced all employees to abide by strict gender roles in clothing: Men had to wear suits and ties, and women had to wear skirts and jackets.
The Hill -New York Attorney General Letitia James (D) on Tuesday filed a lawsuit against proposed new rules expanding the kinds of public aid immigrants can potentially be denied a green card for receiving, arguing it “implements this Administration’s explicit animus against immigrants of color.”The rule would add Medicaid and food stamps to the list of programs whose past recipients could be deemed a “public charge,” potentially jeopardizing their ability to become citizens. In the lawsuit, James argues the rule, which advocates have argued will disproportionately affect immigrants from developing nations in Central America and Africa, is based on racial bias, specifically citing President Trump’s "shithole countries" reference.
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