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Seattle Gay News S E AT T L E ’ S L G B T Q N E W S & E N T E R TA I N M E N T W E E K LY
Federal court affirms rights of Transgender students, Orders school district to settle with plaintiff Gavin Grimm
Trans brains match their gender, not their sex assigned at birth, study shows
Gavin Grimm – Photo by Steve Helber / AP
by Mike Andrew SGN Staff Writer A US District Court has tossed out a motion by the Gloucester County School
Board to dismiss a lawsuit brought by a Transgender former student and ruled that Trans students are, indeed, protected by
see GAVIN GRIMM page 5
New Gallup poll: Two-thirds of Americans OK with same-sex marriage,
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by Mike Andrew SGN Staff Writer Brain activity in Transgender children and teens matches their gender, not the sex they
were assigned at birth, according to a new study by Belgian neuroscientist Julie Bakker. In other words, the brains of Transgender
see TRANS BRAINS page 5
CDC will roll back data collection on the health and well-being of LGBT people
Half say same-sex attraction is innate
Photo by Nate Gowdy
by Mike Andrew SGN Staff Writer Two-thirds of Americans are OK with same-sex marriage, according to a new poll by Gallup. Half of those surveyed also said they believe that same-sex attraction is
something Lesbian, Gay, and Bi people are born with. Gallup surveyed 1,024 US adults between May 1 and May 10 for its annual “values and morals” poll.
see GALLOP POLL page 13
LOS ANGELES, Calif. – A Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) official disclosed that the agency will roll back support for the collection of data on the health and well-being of LGBT people through the Behavior Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS). “The BRFSS is one of the few federally supported data collection activities that
make the needs of LGBT people known to governmental agencies responsible for the safety, health, and welfare of the public,” said Kerith J. Conron, the research director at the Williams Institute at UCLA School of Law. “By removing LGBT measures from the BRFSS, the federal government is shirk-
see CDC ROLL BACK page 12