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In November 2017, Nova Maday and the ACLU of Illinois filed a lawsuit in Cook County Circuit Court against the Township High School District 211 in Palatine for denying Nova the use of the girls’ locker room during physical education class and separating her from other students because she is tra
A Palatine High School student today asked a court to force a suburban Chicago school district to comply with state law and permit the student to use the locker room so that she could take gym.
The following statement is in response to President Trump's order to ban transgender individuals from military service and can be attributed to John Knight, ACLU of Illinois LGBT and HIV Project Director:
In light of the Governor's signing of House Bill 1785, which will reform Illinois' Vital Records Act to allow transgender and intersex people to be able to change the gender marker on their birth certific
The following is the statement of John Knight, LGBT & HIV Project Director for the ACLU of Illinois:
CHICAGO – A proposal to update and modernize a more than half-century old law allowing people to change the gender marker on their Illinois birth certificate was filed today in the Illinois House.