State Department

Your Choice: Wrong Gender on Driver’s License, or Surgery

In Alaska, if you're a transgender person, the state requires you to have surgery to change the gender marker on your driver's license. Today, the ACLU filed a lawsuit challenging this state surgery requirement on behalf of a transgender woman, K.L....

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Be the first to comment - What do you think?  Posted by ACLU Updates - July 19, 2011 at 10:42 am

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Execution in Texas, Despite So Much

Today, Texas executed Humberto Leal Garcia, a Mexican national who was tried, convicted and sentenced to die in the state of Texas without ever being given access to the Mexican consulate. Most agree his sentence would have been different if he had bee...

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Be the first to comment - What do you think?  Posted by ACLU Updates - July 7, 2011 at 7:25 pm

Categories: capital punishment, consulate, death penalth, execution, foreign relations, foreign relations, George W. Bush, George W. Bush, Humberto Leal Garcia, Humberto Leal Garcia, International Court of Justice, Rick Perry, State Department, Texas, Vienna Convention, Vienna Convention   Tags: