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In courtrooms, in the legislature and in our schools and communities,we fight for an Illinois free from discrimination based on sexualorientation and gender identity. Our goal is an Illinois where LGBT

persons can live openly, and our families are respected. Our LGBTwork falls into 5 issue areas – relationship recognition, parenting,youth and schools, basic rights and liberties, and gender

identity/expression. A cornerstone of discrimination against the LGBTcommunity is a legal system that treats families of same-sex couples as legal strangers. Our primary goalin our fight for relationship recognition is to end of Illinois’ exclusion of lesbian and gay couples fromaccess to marriage. We seek to protect the parenting rights of LGBT people with the aim to enddiscrimination and legal restrictions on our ability to parent because of our sexual orientation or gender

identity. In our youth and schools work, we fight for the freedom of LGBTQ youth to express theiridentity and ideas, or keep their identity private if they choose; and for tolerance, safety, and fair treatmentfor young people regardless of their sexual orientation or gender identity. Our basic rights and libertiesefforts seek to ensure the LGBT have the chance to fully participate in society without being subject to

discrimination in employment, housing, and public accommodations. The central goal of our genderidentity /expression work is for us all, including transgender Illinoisans, to have our gender recognizedwithout facing discrimination.

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Joint Statement on Stopping Discrimination Against Transgender Students

We stand with transgender and gender nonconforming students in Illinois and denounce the blatantly

discriminatory bill recently introduced in the Illinois House by Rep. Tom Morrison (R-Palatine). HB-4474

would force... Continue reading

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District 211 Board vote falls short of full inclusion for students who are transgender

UPDATE 12/4/2015 4:00 p.m. School District 211 issued a press release suggesting that the OCR wasacting in “bad faith” on the settlement affecting our client, and threatening an “emergency... Continuereading

Department of Education stands with high school student who is transgender

U.S. Department of Education finds that Palatine District 211’s denial of gender-appropriate changingfacilities violates Title IX CHICAGO – Despite efforts by the school district to justify their behavior, the...Continue reading

Getting it right for transgender students

John Knight, LGBT Project Director Last week, a suburban Chicago school district – High School District211 – announced that they would not comply with a ruling by the Department... Continue reading

District announces that it will violate federal law

Suburban School District says that it will discriminate against transgender students by denying them

gender-appropriate locker room facilities in violation of Title IX CHICAGO – A suburban Chicago schooldistrict... Continue reading

Victory against discrimination

Human Rights Commission says that Bed & Breakfast violated law when it denied downstate couple use

of its facility for civil union ceremony In a decision that has broad... Continue reading

Viral Photo Highlights Need for Action In Support Of LGBT Youth

“I’m homosexual and I’m afraid about what my future will be and that people won’t like me.” Sadly, thisquote didn’t come from a gay person several decades ago, during... Continue reading

June 26th: A Historic Day for Equality

June 26, 2015. Twelve years to the day after the Supreme Court struck down bans on sodomy in Lawrence

v. Texas. Two years to the day after the Supreme Court... Continue reading

Windy City Times: Married same-sex couples denied health care benefits by

employers

A story in the Windy City Times profiles a couple represented by the ACLU of Illinois, who were deniedhealth insurance coverage through the Local 225 of the Laborer’s International Union of... Continue

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“I’m Still Gonna Be Me”: Leading the Charge for Change in Prisons andEverywhere Else

http://www.aclu-il.org/im-still-gonna-be-me-leading-the-charge-for-change-in-prisons-and-everywhere-else/http://www.aclu-il.org/windy-city-times-married-same-sex-couples-denied-health-care-benefits-by-employers/http://www.aclu-il.org/windy-city-times-married-same-sex-couples-denied-health-care-benefits-by-employers/http://www.aclu-il.org/june-26th-a-historic-day-for-equality/http://www.aclu-il.org/june-26th-a-historic-day-for-equality/http://www.aclu-il.org/viral-photo-highlights-need-for-action-in-support-of-lgbt-youth/http://www.aclu-il.org/viral-photo-highlights-need-for-action-in-support-of-lgbt-youth/http://www.aclu-il.org/victory-against-discrimination/http://www.aclu-il.org/victory-against-discrimination/http://www.aclu-il.org/district-announces-that-it-will-violate-federal-law/http://www.aclu-il.org/district-announces-that-it-will-violate-federal-law/http://www.aclu-il.org/getting-it-right-for-transgender-students/http://www.aclu-il.org/getting-it-right-for-transgender-students/http://www.aclu-il.org/department-of-education-stands-with-high-school-student-who-is-transgender/http://www.aclu-il.org/department-of-education-stands-with-high-school-student-who-is-transgender/http://www.aclu-il.org/district-211-board-vote-falls-short-of-full-inclusion-for-students-who-are-transgender/http://www.aclu-il.org/district-211-board-vote-falls-short-of-full-inclusion-for-students-who-are-transgender/


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I first met Tatyana a few years after the Wisconsin legislature passed the Inmate Sex Change PreventionAct – a cruel piece of legislation aimed at denying urgently needed healthcare... Continue reading
http://www.aclu-il.org/im-still-gonna-be-me-leading-the-charge-for-change-in-prisons-and-everywhere-else/

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