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#AM_Equality Tip Sheet: August 4, 2016<\/b>
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SCOTUS ORDER DELAYS JUSTICE FOR TRANS STUDENTS: <\/strong>HRC yesterday expressed deep disappointment in a decision by the Supreme Court of the United States to halt a lower court’s order forbidding a Virginia school district from enforcing its discriminatory ban on transgender students using bathrooms consistent with their gender identity. The 5-3<\/a> order in Gloucester County School Board v. Grimm <\/em>allows the school board’s discriminatory policy to remain in place while the Supreme Court awaits an application by the school board to have its full appeal heard by the Supreme Court. A final decision in the case would likely occur well into the school year. “Today’s Supreme Court order is deeply disappointing and subjects Gavin Grimm and students like him to unsafe and discriminatory conditions as they begin returning to school in the coming weeks,” said HRC Legal Director Sarah Warbelow.<\/strong><\/a> “No young person should wake up in the morning fearful of bullying or discrimination during the school day ahead. Every day that discrimination is allowed to continue, transgender students are put at risk of harm.” More here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

TIM KAINE TAKES ON HB2: <\/strong>At a rally in Greensboro, NC, yesterday, Democratic Vice Presidential nominee Tim Kaine urged North Carolinians to go “forward, not backward” on LGBTQ equality, and to stand up to the discrimination perpetrated by NC Gov. Pat McCrory’s HB2 law. “Now, I know in North Carolina, there’s been some pain over this issue. They snuck through in the legislature this HB2, and they tried to introduce it kind of in the dead of night,” Kaine said. “You all have stood up in a major way and you’ve said this is not who we are. This is not who North Carolina is. These are not our values.” He was joined by NC Attorney General Roy Cooper, who pledged to roll back HB2 if elected governor this fall. More from Politico<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n