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Supreme Court upholds Idaho, West Virginia anti-trans athlete bans. The Supreme Court ruled on June 30th that states can exclude transgender athletes from women’s and girls’ sports teams and that such bans do not violate Title IX or the Constitution’s Equal Protection Clause. PFLAG CEO Brian K. Bond released a statement following the Supreme Court’s ruling, saying “Trans people belong, on and off the field,” and emphasizing that the ruling does not change the situation on the ground in any state, leaving in place anti-trans athlete bans where they exist and permitting inclusive athletics policies in other states. Supreme Court strikes down Trump executive order limiting birthright citizenship. Chief Justice John Roberts authored the decision, released on June 30th, which held that “children born of parents unlawfully or temporarily present in the United States…satisfy both elements of the Citizenship Clause [of the 14th Amendment]...Under the Constitution, they are citizens at birth.” PFLAG National celebrated the decision “to uphold the Fourteenth Amendment and affirm that every person born in the United States is a citizen.” Supreme Court upholds Mississippi law allowing late-arriving mail-in ballots to be counted. The Republican National Committee and the Mississippi Republican Party, along with a Mississippi voter and a county election official, challenged a 2020 state law that allows mail-in ballots postmarked by Election Day to be counted as long as they are received within five days of Election Day, claiming this violated federal law defining “election day.” In a 5-4 decision authored by Justice Amy Coney Barrett, the Court concluded that federal law only requires that the electorate’s choice be made on election day and that Mississippi’s law complies with this, as voters must still make their choices on their ballots postmarked by election day, even if those ballots are not received until later. Federal judge blocks DOJ subpoena of California hospital for records related to gender-affirming care. U.S. District Judge P. Casey Pitts issued the preliminary injunction on July 2nd barring the DOJ from requesting, receiving, or otherwise obtaining records that would identify Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford patients as having sought or received gender-affirming care, disclose their diagnoses or clinical assessments, or reveal consent and parental authorization documents tied to that care. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) drops trans educator’s workplace discrimination complaint. Flint del Sol filed a workplace discrimination complaint against a Southern California school district where he worked, alleging years of threats, scrutiny, and discriminatory treatment tied to his transition and his advocacy for LGBTQ+ students. On June 23rd, an EEOC investigator reached out to del Sol to tell him that the agency would not be pursuing the case, saying, “We are not permitted to conduct/continue any investigation regarding transgender cases, and that is coming from the chain of command.”
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