WASHINGTON, DC – In a brief ceremony in the East Room of the White House, with a scattering of "Amens" from the 300 or so LGBT activists gathered, President Obama this morning (July 21) signed an ...

The settlement ends a case where the Minnesota Supreme Court found USA Powerlifting violated the state's Human Rights Act by barring JayCee Cooper from competition.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Four federal government agencies with roles in ensuring fairness in the federal workplace released a guide June 4 on the rights and processes available to applicants and employees ...

Signaling a major shift in civil rights enforcement, the federal agency that enforces workplace anti-discrimination laws has moved to dismiss six of its own cases on behalf of workers alleging gender ...

Salesforce.com CEO David Benioff has drawn lots of media attention, a good deal of praise from civil rights proponents, and plenty of ire from conservative politicians and pro-business groups … all by ...

A view of the Capitol Dome from a skylight in the Capitol Visitor's Center at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, October 2, 2013. The fight between Democrats and the Republicans over the government's ...

The Coalition has vowed to "define biological sex" in the Sex Discrimination Act as a first-term priority if it wins government.

Opposition Leader Angus Taylor has vowed to amend the Sex Discrimination Act after the Federal Court upheld a landmark ruling ...

He described his vow to “protect single-sex spaces across Australian life”  as a “common-sense” response to the highly charged debate over gender identity.

Pauline Hanson has weighed in on a landmark court ruling, after an app founder once backed by JK Rowling was ordered to pay double for discriminating against a transgender user.

Russian authorities have banned nine groups that provide support to lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people as ...

Young lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people in South Korea experience isolation and mistreatment in schools, a report showed Tuesday. Human Rights Watch and the Allard K. Lowenstein ...