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AU And Allies Support PA School District’s Inclusive Transgender Policy

Americans United and our allies this week urged a federal appeals court to affirm that an eastern Pennsylvania school district has the right to allow transgender students to use bathrooms and locker rooms that are consistent with their gender identity.

A Federal Court Has Blocked Trump’s Regulations That Would Deny Countless Women Access To Birth Control

A federal judge in Pennsylvania on Friday blocked rules that the Trump administration issued last October that would allow any employer or university to use religion as an excuse to deny their employees and students health insurance coverage for birth control. 

Philadelphia Adopts Religious Exemption Policy For Publicly Funded Clinic Doctors

The City of Brotherly Love has adopted a new religious exemption policy that could seriously affect the health of patients using publicly funded clinics.

Would-Be Pennsylvania Government Official Seeks The Kim Davis Treatment

It's not often that a county's register of wills race becomes national news, but in Post-Kim Davis America, it seems like anything is possible.