Tagged legal

Wisconsin Health Insurance Gender-Reassignment Exclusion Struck Down

A federal judge ruled that a Wisconsin state rule excluding health insurance coverage for medically necessary gender reassignment surgery is considered sex discrimination under federal law, reported WiscNews. ...

Colorado Judge Rules in Favor of Intersex Plaintiff in Passport Case

A new ruling states that the Trump Administration's State Department can no longer lean upon a binary-preferring gender policy to refuse passports to gender-diverse citizens. On September 19th, a U.S. Distri...

Romania Soon To Face Ballot On Definition of Family

Romanian citizens will soon have to cast a ballot on both LGBTQ rights and gender equality, as the Romanian Senate overwhelmingly backed an initiative to change the definition of family in the constitution, rep...

Iceland May Lift Blood Donor Ban For Gay Men

News sources suggest that Iceland may soon lift its legal ban barring gay men from donating blood. The North Atlantic nation's Ministry of Health is reviewing, and apparently giving serious consideration to,...

SCOTUS Declines to Take Up Philly Adoption Case

In March of this year, the City of Philadelphia imposed a freeze on placements with Catholic Social Services after the Philadelphia Inquirer reported that the adoption agency had a policy to not place children ...