In a unanimous decision issued late last month, the Illinois Human Rights Commission confirmed that excluding gender-affirming care from employee insurance plans violates Illinois’ civil rights laws, including protections for gender identity.

A vote on a proposed ordinance to empower the City of Chicago to use a discredited civil asset forfeiture statute in order to seize property from alleged “street gangs” was delayed in City Council. 

On Tuesday, attorneys for Cristina Nichole Iglesias filed a response to the federal Bureau of Prisons’ (BOP) decision to approve Ms. Iglesias for gender-affirming surgery—but delay referring her to a surgeon for an initial consultation until mid-April 2022 at the earliest.

We filed a Human Rights charge with National Advocates for Pregnant Women on behalf of a mother who had DCFS called on her during birth because an Easter poppy seed cake led to a positive drug test.

The federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) failed to confirm they have approved Cristina Nichole Iglesias for gender-affirming surgery by the Wednesday court-ordered deadline, suggesting that BOP has again denied her the care she needs.

An alliance of faith-based and anti-violence community leaders have joined policy organizations and government agencies to call on Mayor Lori Lightfoot to drop her plan to use new civil asset forfeiture powers in response to gun violence in Chicago.

For the first time ever, a federal court has ordered the federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) to evaluate a transgender woman for gender-affirming surgery.