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Bed & Breakfast Ordered to Cease Discriminating Against Same-Sex Couples and to Pay Damages to Couple It Turned Away

CHICAGO – An administrative law judge with the Illinois Human Rights Commission ordered a Paxton bed and breakfast that denied acce

March 29, 2016

Joint Statement on Stopping Discrimination Against Transgender Students

We stand with transgender and gender nonconforming students in Illinois and denounce the blatantly discriminatory bill recently introduced in the Illinois House by Rep. Tom Morrison (R-Palatine).

January 22, 2016

District 211 Board vote falls short of full inclusion for students who are transgender

UPDATE 12/4/2015 4:00 p.m. School District 211 issued a press release suggesting that the OCR was acting in “bad faith” on the settlement affecting our client, and threatening an “emergency board meeting to discuss action, including the potential retraction of the agreem

December 3, 2015

Department of Education stands with high school student who is transgender

U.S. Department of Education finds that Palatine District 211’s denial of gender-appropriate changing facilities violates Title IX

November 2, 2015

District announces that it will violate federal law

Suburban School District says that it will discriminate against transgender students by denying them gender-appropriate locker room facilities in violation of Title IX

October 13, 2015

Victory against discrimination

Human Rights Commission says that Bed & Breakfast violated law when it denied downstate couple use of its facility for civil union ceremony

September 17, 2015