Trans ex-bishop sues Lutheran Church for bias
Rev. Megan Rohrer, the first openly Trans bishop elected to the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA), has filed a lawsuit against the denomination for bias against him, which he says took the form of deliberate misgendering and creating a "hostile work environment."

Rohrer resigned as bishop of the Sierra Pacific Synod in June, after being accused of bias himself; he fired the pastor of a majority-Latino, immigrant congregation in Stanton, California, on the Day of Our Lady Guadalupe.

"All my life, I've been an ally for racial justice and to people from marginalized groups," Rohrer said of the accusations of racism against him. He also said that the ELCA retaliated when he reported to synod officials that certain churches were categorizing their employees as contracted workers, to avoid paying them a salary.

"Similarly, when Rohrer separately revealed the Trans harassment he had been suffering since the beginning of his job," the lawsuit says, "the Church terminated him, and falsely accused him of 'weaponizing his own identity as a Trans person to 'avoid being held accountable.'"

Rohrer seeks monetary damages in the suit.

He now works as a senior communications specialist at a Black nondenominational church in San Francisco.

Alaska reverses protections against housing discrimination
Alaska's human rights commission has deleted certain language from its website promising legal protections for LGBT Alaskans against discrimination regarding housing, financing, and most other categories beyond the workplace.

An investigation by the Anchorage Daily News and ProPublica found that the change, which the LGBTQ nonprofit Identity Alaska called "state-sponsored discrimination," was requested by a conservative Christian group during the gubernatorial primaries. The commission has since refused to investigate complaints.

"The real-world consequences of these policies are harms to LGBTQIA+ Alaskans," said Identity Alaska's board in a statement.

The commission's executive director, Robert Corbisier, said that Attorney General Treg Taylor told him to make the change. Gov. Dunleavy declined requests for an interview, but one of his spokespersons said, "The governor's office was not involved in the Department of Law's legal advice on LGBTQ+ discrimination cases."