Keshet is working with secular LGBTQ+ rights organizations and Jewish organizations to fight for LGBTQ+ equality in North Carolina. Along with local synagogues, we are working with Carolina Jews for Justice and Equality North Carolina to mobilize Jewish communities for LGBTQ+ rights. To get involved in North Carolina, sign up here.
Pro-LGBTQ+ laws
- Nondiscrimination protections for LGBTQ+ parents in adoption and foster care
- Nondiscrimination protections for LGBTQ+ people in employment and public accommodations
- Nondiscrimination protections for LGBTQ+ state employees
- However, state explicitly excludes transition-related healthcare in their state employee health benefits
- Anti-bullying law protecting LGBTQ+ students
- Conversion therapy ban covering LGBTQ+ youth
- Protections against discrimination for LGBTQ+ youth in the child welfare system
- State allows for changing of gender marker on driver’s licenses
Anti-LGBTQ+ laws
- No second-parent adoption for unmarried couples
- State family leave policies do not include inclusive definitions of spouse/partner/parent/child
- No nondiscrimination protections for LBGTQ+ people in housing, jury service, or credit/lending
- State has targeted religious exemption law that permits state and local officials to decline to marry couples of whose marriage they disapprove
- No nondiscrimination law protecting LBGTQ+ students
- State curriculum not required to be LGBTQ+-inclusive
- No hate crimes law protecting LGBTQ+ people
- Gay/trans panic defense is not banned
- State criminalizes transmission of HIV
- State requires proof of sex reassignment surgery in order to change gender marker
- State does not allow for changing of gender marker on birth certificates
- State law requires publication of name change announcement
- No gender neutral options on driver’s license or birth certificates
