Safe Elections 2020 Update COLUMBIA, SC - The Senate met yesterday, September 2, and passed election reform measures, using the “strike and replace” mechanism that we've seen before, using H.5305 as a vehicle. You can read the bill at https://www.scstatehouse.gov/sess123_2019-2020/bills/5305.htm. It was made very clear that this is a Republican caucus bill. Attempts by Democrats to modify it were immediately tabled, one after the other. The amendment apparently [...]
This day is to celebrate all the Trans people in our lives and community! March 31st marks the annual Transgender Day of Visibility, an international holiday that celebrates transgender and gender non-conforming individuals. The day is dedicated to acknowledging all that has been accomplished to promote trans equality and justice in the face of adversity. It is also a time to raise awareness around the discrimination that unfortunately [...]
The Senate Subcommittee on Education has scheduled a hearing on S.1087 for next Thursday morning. With the current health crisis (COVID-19), members of the Senate Education Committee should be focusing their attention on protecting the health of ALL students in South Carolina. Instead, Senator Cash and others want to waste taxpayer dollars on promoting a discriminatory bigoted bill targeting transgender student-athletes. He has requested a public hearing on S.1087 next [...]
SC Equality, other advocate organizations and South Carolina Youth File Lawsuit Challenging State’s Anti-LGBTQ Curriculum Law CHARLESTON, SC – Today the National Center for Lesbian Rights and Lambda Legal, along with private counsel Womble Bond Dickinson, Brazil & Burke, and law professor Clifford Rosky, filed a federal lawsuit challenging a South Carolina statute that prohibits public school health education from including any discussion of same-sex relationships except in the context of sexually transmitted [...]
