Bradford Richardson

Maroon 5 refuses to play in North Carolina over bathroom law, prepares for show in Moscow

Pop group Maroon 5 on Friday canceled two concerts scheduled to be held in North Carolina over a state law regulating public bathroom access on the basis of biological sex, but the group is still set to play in several Eastern European nations that allocate far fewer rights to LGBT people.

May 20, 2016

Clarence Henderson, civil rights activist: Stop comparing transgender bathrooms to Jim Crow

A civil rights activist who famously sat down at a race-segregated diner countertop says the comparison between racial equality and transgender bathroom access is ludicrous.

May 20, 2016

Oklahoma moves to outlaw abortion in Roe gambit

The Oklahoma Legislature passed a bill Thursday making abortion a crime, hoping to set into motion a legal challenge to the Supreme Court's Roe v. Wade decision and have abortion regulations returned to the states.

May 19, 2016

Majority believe states should decide transgender bathroom issue: poll

A new CBS/New York Times poll indicates Americans prefer a decentralized approach to deciding how to accommodate transgender people who wish to use the restrooms and facilities of the opposite sex.

May 19, 2016

Female guard charged with assault after confronting transgender woman in women’s restroom

A female security guard at a grocery store has been charged with assault after confronting a transgender woman in a women's restroom and kicking her out of the store.

May 19, 2016

House Republicans to pen letter denouncing Obama’s bathroom order

A group of 73 Republican congressmen is repudiating President Obama's order compelling public schools nationwide to permit restroom and locker room access on the basis of gender identity, rather than biological sex.

May 19, 2016

Charlotte Observer: Girls must try ‘overcoming discomfort’ of seeing ‘male genitalia’ in bathrooms

A leading North Carolina newspaper issued an editorial last week telling girls to attempt "overcoming discomfort" at the sight of "male genitalia," should transgender bathroom laws be enacted.

May 18, 2016

Bill de Blasio, NYC mayor, to fine businesses that fail to use correct gender pronouns

Greeting customers as "Mr." or "Mrs." -- or even not using the pronoun "ze" or "zir" -- could prove costly for New York City businesses under rules drafted by Mayor Bill de Blasio's bureaucrats.

May 18, 2016

Archdiocese of Louisville denies couple cemetery headstone celebrating gay marriage

A gay couple is accusing the Archdiocese of Louisville of discriminating against them, after their headstone design celebrating gay marriage was rejected at a Catholic cemetery.

May 18, 2016

Law professors pen open letter denouncing Title IX overreach

A group of 21 law professors issued a public letter Monday protesting the U.S. Department of Education's expanded interpretation of Title IX, which they said is chilling campus free speech and curtailing student due-process rights.

May 18, 2016

Man ‘representing himself as a woman today’ enters women’s dressing room at Ross store

A female customer was unnerved when a man, who reportedly made no effort to appear as a woman, but said he was "representing himself as a woman today," entered the women's dressing room at a Ross department store in Mesquite, Texas.

May 18, 2016

American Law Institute rejects affirmative consent standard in defining sexual assault

In a rebuke to a feminist idea that has migrated from college campuses to mainstream culture, an influential legal group overwhelmingly rejected Tuesday a provision that would have endorsed an "affirmative consent" standard for the purpose of defining sexual assault.

May 17, 2016

Eric Fanning, first openly gay Army secretary, confirmed by Senate

The U.S. Senate on Tuesday confirmed the nomination of Eric Fanning, who is gay, to serve as U.S. Secretary of the Army.

May 17, 2016

Majority opposed to Obama’s transgender school bathroom order: poll

A majority of Americans in a new poll say they oppose President Obama's order telling schools to allow transgender students to use the bathroom corresponding with their gender identity, rather than biological sex.

May 17, 2016

Woman accused of being transgender, kicked out of Walmart bathroom

A Connecticut woman with short hair says she was mistaken for a transgender woman and told to leave a Wal-Mart bathroom.

May 17, 2016

American Law Institute considering ‘affirmative consent’ position on sexual assault

The American Law Institute will vote at its annual convention this week whether to adopt a model penal code broadening the definition of sexual assault.

May 17, 2016

Students using devices to take notes perform worse: study

Although technology-in-education advocates are quickly tearing down the boundaries between the computer lab and the classroom, a study examining the influence of laptops and tablets on collegiate performance indicates that, as with Dr. Frankenstein's monster, innovation can come back to harm the innovator.

May 16, 2016

Religious women live longer than nonreligious women: Study

A new study finds a statistically significant correlation between attendance at religious services and the life expectancy of women.

May 16, 2016

Cartoonist depicts children crucified to crosses that read ‘2nd Amendment’ in NRA hit

Louisville Courier-Journal cartoonist Marc Murphy welcomed the National Rifle Association to town ahead of its national convention with a cartoon depicting a cemetery of purported gun-violence victims.

May 16, 2016

Catholic bishops slam Obama’s ‘disturbing’ transgender bathroom order

Two prominent Catholic bishops on Monday denounced President Obama's order compelling public schools to allow restroom and locker room use on the basis of gender identity rather than sex.

May 16, 2016