Press Releases

ACLU and ACLU of North Carolina Urge Court to End Health Care Delays Faced by Incarcerated Transgender Woman

Attorneys for the American Civil Liberties Union and the American Civil Liberties Union of North Carolina urged a federal district court to grant preliminary relief to Kanautica Zayre-Brown, a transgender woman currently denied adequate health care while held in a North Carolina state prison.
Issue Areas: LGBTQIA+ Equality

ACLU Demands End to Discriminatory and Inhumane Treatment of Incarcerated Transgender Woman

NC Department of Public Safety targets woman because she is transgender, refuses to provide necessary medical treatment.
Issue Areas: LGBTQIA+ Equality

ACLU of NC Statement on Bill that Would Target Teachers and LGBTQ Students

Like Florida’s infamous “Don’t Say Gay Bill,” HB 755 is part of a national campaign to target and alienate LGBTQ students and a broader movement to exclude LGBTQ people from public life, limit what teachers can teach, and what students can learn.  

ACLU Files Lawsuit Against NC Department of Public Safety for Inhumane Treatment of Incarcerated Transgender Woman

Despite the medical findings of health care providers engaged by DPS, prison officials continue to deny gender-affirming care to Kanautica Zayre-Brown.
Issue Areas: LGBTQIA+ Equality

N.C. Supreme Court Upholds Ruling that Domestic Violence Protections Must Apply Equally to LGBTQ+ Couples

In a victory for LGBTQ+ equality, the N.C. Supreme Court upheld a Court of Appeals decision establishing that people in same-sex dating relationships cannot be excluded from domestic violence protections. The opinion in M.E. v. T.J was issued after the defendant appealed the December 2020...
Issue Areas: LGBTQIA+ Equality

Federal Court Affirms Protections Against Discrimination Under Title VII

“Today’s decision is one of the first applications of the Supreme Court’s ban on sex discrimination to employees of private religious schools,” said Irena Como, senior staff attorney at the American Civil Liberties Union of North Carolina. “The court sent a clear message that Charlotte Catholic...
Issue Areas: LGBTQIA+ Equality

ACLU Applauds Passing of LGBTQ Protections Post-HB 2

This week,  Hillsborough, Carrboro, and Chapel-Hill became the first municipalities to pass LGBTQ protection ordinances after the expiration of a state ban prohibiting local governments from enacting anti-discrimination policies.
Issue Areas: LGBTQIA+ Equality

Court Approves Settlement in H.B. 2 Replacement Case

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. – The State of North Carolina cannot use H.B. 142, the law that replaced H.B. 2, to prevent transgender individuals from using public restrooms and other facilities in state government buildings that match their gender under an agreement approved today by a federal court.
Issue Areas: LGBTQIA+ Equality