Obergefell, Kim Davis, and the SCOTUS

Kim Davis, Obergefell, and the Supreme Court of the United States

When former clerk Kim Davis declined to certify same sex marriages due to her sincerely held religious beliefs in Rowan County, Kentucky in 2015, she set into action a series of legal actions leading to her being jailed briefly, then being sued and found liable for $100,000 in damages in addition to $260,000 in attorneys’…

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Can you change your gender marker on passports now? This is what we know.

Can you change your gender marker on passports now? This is what we know. | NicholsonPham | North Carolina LGBT, Transgender Attorneys

On January 20, 2025, Trump issued an Executive Order on Gender Ideology seeking to create sweeping barriers intended to make trans people’s lives more difficult. Since then, he has issued other orders targeted at the LGBTQ community which aren’t the subject of this post. I hope to address these later. Traditionally, Executive Orders (EO) are…

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