AUGUSTA — Gov. Paul LePage has pledged his name in support of a lawsuit against guidance from President Barack Obama’s administration that transgender students must be allowed to use the bathroom of their choice. Lepage joined a lawsuit spearheaded by the state of Texas and joined by the states of Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Oklahoma, Tennessee, […]
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Businesses push back at N.C. ant-discrimination restrictions
RALEIGH, N.C. — Corporations expressed disappointment and the NCAA vowed to monitor what North Carolina does next now that the state has banned any local government measures protecting people from discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity. American Airlines, which operates its second-largest hub in Charlotte; IBM and Biogen, which have facilities […]
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Paul LePage argues against changing Virginia transgender restroom use policy
AUGUSTA — Gov. Paul LePage and other conservative elected officials have asked a federal court in Virginia to block a transgender boy’s challenge of his school district’s bathroom-use policy, arguing he is “biologically of the female sex.” A brief from LePage and other state Republican officials Monday challenges the American Civil Liberties Union’s lawsuit on […]
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U.S. military ready to lift ban on transgender soldiers
WASHINGTON — Pentagon leaders are finalizing plans aimed at lifting the ban on transgender individuals in the military, with the goal of formally ending one of the last gender- or sexuality-based barriers to military service, senior U.S. officials told The Associated Press. An announcement is expected this week, and the services would have six months […]
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Maine Supreme Court allows transgender student to use girls’ restroom
PORTLAND — The Maine Supreme Judicial Court on Thursday reversed a lower court’s decision that banned a transgender child from using the girls’ bathroom in Orono schools. In a 5-1 decision, the justices said that Superior Court Justice William Anderson erred when he ruled in favor of what is now Riverside RSU 26. “Our opinion […]
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April Hartford: Classmates took very different paths
Samuel Hall sat beside me in band class back in our high school days. We both played the alto saxophone. In fact, Sam and I were in many of the same classes for our junior high and high school days. We both kept good grades and were active in school, participating in plenty of extracurricular […]