Category Archives: Current News

IT’S  CHRISTMAS PARADE TIME AGAIN SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 19!  Don and Andy are getting the big Cadillac ready to roar in the Burlington Christmas Parade again this year. Now we need help with a few riders and some walkers ready to … Continue reading →

By Alexandra Brodsky, NY Times, October 27. 2016 CreditNicole Xu Last month, a Minnesota federal court received a complaint about rampant gender discrimination in one of the state’s school districts. The lawsuit claimed that girls were subject to harassment, barred … Continue reading →

A fantastic guide to laws, regulations, and best practices for use in schools from the Maryland State Department of Education , courtesy of excellent work by a coalition of people and organizations, including PFLAG Columbia-Howard County.   Click link. Also … Continue reading →

“Being Transgender is a fact of nature;………..a mismatch between gender identity and biological sex is not something people choose. The most common description given by transgendered individuals is a persistent, painfully distressing belief that they are females trapped in a … Continue reading →

 April 30th, 2016  Further compounding the HB2 economic catastrophe that North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory, Senate President Pro Tem Phil Berger and House Speaker Pat Moore inflicted on the state when they rammed the HB 2 legislation through in less … Continue reading →

Excerpt from a long thoughtful editorial in the Burlington Times News on April 15, 2016: “We still believe a reasonable solution can be found that doesn’t mean high school kids of the opposite sex are taking showers together after gym … Continue reading →

From the Burlington Times News, Apr. 12, 2016 What a difference a governor makes. Not our governor, I’m sorry to report.   To see good leadership at work, look south, to Columbia, the capital city of the other Carolina.  A Republican lawmaker there … Continue reading →

UPDATES ON HB2 Few issues have mobilized the state, and even the nation, than North Carolina’s hastily crafted legislative action known as HB2.  This action by the NC Legislature and immediately signed by Governor McCrory writes into state law discrimination … Continue reading →

WASHINGTON, March 7 (Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday overturned an Alabama judicial ruling that had refused to recognize a gay woman’s parental rights over three children she adopted with her lesbian partner and raised from birth. The … Continue reading →