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Viewpoint: Amend ACA to Address Transgender Health Issues

Editor-in-Chief Kate Walsham's note from 24:1 inspired this Viewpoint piece. Check it out. http://www.law.com/jsp/ca/PubArticleCA.jsp?id=1202591169801&slreturn=201...

Wisconsin State Senator Weighs in on Wisconsin's Repeal of its Equal Pay Law

Last week Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker repealed that state's equal pay law. State Senator Glenn Grotham explains his vote in favor of repeal:

SCOTUSblog Online Symposium: Same-Sex Marriage

SCOTUSblog, an essential resource for anyone that follows the Supreme Court, is having a (blog) symposium on same-sex marriage where they'll be publishing articles by leading voices on both sides of the debate. This archive link goes to a page that will aggregate articles as they're posted.

Other than the symposium announcement (complete with list of contributors) there are already a few articles posted:

2 gay dads, 12 happy kids

An excellent features article about Steven and Roger Ham, a gay male couple in Arizona that started out by foster-adopting a kid at age 5 who was worried about his four younger siblings, who were all split up and bouncing around different foster homes. And so it goes, adopting siblings, infants, and special needs children. Their story is all the more remarkable for living in Arizona, where two men cannot be legally married, nor adopt children together, and the Governor just signed into law a bill that preferences (different-sex) married couples in adoptions, all else being equal.

Highlighting Symposium Speakers: Julie Seaman

This video features Julie Seaman discussing how evolutionary differences between the sexes can help us understand sex discrimination, especially in the employment law field.
http://vimeo.com/16540032

If you like videos, don't forget Hastings Women's Law Journal's Symposium will be broadcasting live on the internet February 25, 2011!

National Transgender Discrimination Survey Shows Rampant Discrimination Against Trans* People in Health Care

The National Center for Transgender Equality & the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force released a report earlier this month showing routine and widespread discrimination against transgender and gender non-conforming individuals in access to health care. The report data was pulled from a survey of over 6,540 transgender and gender non-conforming people in the United States. Go here to see the full report: http://transequality.org/
Check out the discussions on this at feministe.

A few findings:

It Gets Better

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Dan Savage of the "Savage Love" advice column began a video project called "It Gets Better" in response to the spate of young gay teens killing themselves after enduring homophobic bullying. One recent entry shows the city of San Francisco offering LGBT youth resources and urging them to hold out hope for a better adulthood. Check it out here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bnev14XfUjY [link opens in YouTube].

Gender Pay Gap Underestimates Economic Inequality

Hastings Professor (and HWLJ Author) Joan Williams at Feministe!
http://www.feministe.us/blog/archives/2010/09/06/gender-pay-gap-underest...

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