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The North Carolina General Assembly recently passed several bills targeting transgender youth despite Governor Cooper's veto. Here's everything you need to know.

Now that the legislature has successfully passed a damaging abortion ban, we’re bracing for a renewed effort to target LGBTQ North Carolinians.

Today we celebrate Transgender Day of Remembrance and the birthday of Pauli Murray, a civil rights lawyer and activist from Durham, NC.

The threat of censorship and the suppression of knowledge is alive and well today and continues a long legacy of attempting to silence minoritized people.

As the weather (hopefully) begins to cool, we are reflecting on all the wonderful work we accomplished this summer, and we wanted to take a moment to share it all with our supporters.

Families in Texas are worried that supporting their transgender kids will lead to a report of child abuse. We are already seeing families being investigated. Gender-affirming care is medically necessary, saves lives, and shouldn’t be the subject of an investigation.

One bill would prohibit trans-affirming care for anyone under the age of 21, while another would grant medical providers a broad “license to discriminate.”

Legislation seeking to ban transgender youth from participating in sports is part of an extreme agenda that seeks to eliminate trans, intersex, and gender-noncomforming people from public life. The ACLU of North Carolina will work inside and outside of the halls of the general assembly to stop...