The Fine Print Blog

A memo from the Trump Administration’s Department of Health and Human Services said it intended to use Title IX to define gender “on a biological basis that is clear, grounded in science, objective and administrable." The proposal is a bare-knuckled assault on the civil rights and safety of people who identify as outside of the gender binary. It is an act of violence with very real and serious consequences for the health, healthcare, and related safety of individual young people.

While science is one useful tool in combating HIV criminalization, we must avoid the suggestion that these discriminatory laws have any kind of underlying legitimacy.

There are plenty of reasons why LGBT people and people living with HIV should be horrified, and should speak out, at the prospect of a Justice Kavanaugh on the U.S. Supreme Court.

Guest blogger Davina Conner (Positively Dee) weighs in on Nushawn Williams.

A Side-by-Side Comparison of the Proposed Bills to Reform Missouri’s HIV Criminal Laws

CHLP National Outreach Coordinator Arpita Appannagari examines a report from the Williams Institute released earlier this month that provides a comprehensive look at HIV criminalization in Georgia using data from the Georgia Bureau of Investigation.

While media attention focused on Price's comments, in December her committee released a final report with surprisingly progressive findings and recommendations based in no small part on the efforts of Georgia advocates who made sure the committee had information about the harms of Georgia’s HIV criminal laws and the need for reform.

Changes to HIV criminalization laws in Canada highlight the importance of the Consensus Statement on HIV TasP in Criminal Law Reform urging that prosecutions not hinge on an individual's viral load but on actual, intentional transmission.

Explanation of Florida’s SB 546/HB 719