Rep. Tom Hooker last week introduced a bill that would outlaw the use of public funds to pay for sex reassignment surgery for incarcerated people, among others. Hooker didn't bother checking with the ...

The words equality and equity often get used interchangeably, but they have quite different meanings. Equality is an objective term — it means just what it implies and there is little room for debate.

Lawyers for Human Rights (LHR) will appear before the Gauteng High Court, Johannesburg, sitting as the Equality Court, on Friday to represent a transgender woman challenging what she deems the ...

A new analysis of healthcare equality by the Human Rights Campaign Foundation found that the vast majority of U.S. healthcare facilities don’t have fully inclusive policies toward lesbian, gay, ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Reps. Mark Pocan, D-WI; David Cicilline, D-RI; Sean Patrick Maloney, D-NY; Jared Polis, D-CO; and Mark Takano, D-CA, Co-Chairs of the Congressional LGBT Equality Caucus, sent a ...