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A Side Note On “Transgender Membership and Title IX”
Tim Burke, Manley Burke, tburke@manleyburke.com
The issue of transgender rights is receiving increasing attention. The October 2013 ABA Journal carries an article focusing on the rights of transgender children and how local school districts are dealing with the issue. As Fraternal Law goes to press, the United States Senate is actively considering a bill that would ban employment discrimination on the basis of sexual preference or gender identity. More than a dozen states already have laws in place prohibiting discrimination on the basis of gender identity. This remains a developing area of the law and its impact on single sex fraternities and sororities is not yet clear.