Several national LGBTQ advocacy groups have joined SAG-AFTRA in its appeal of a federal court’s ruling that found a state law the union had backed to force the IMDbPro to stop publishing actors’ ages was unconstitutional.
“Even if California had shown that the law was passed after targeted efforts to eliminate discrimination in the entertainment industry had failed,” he wrote, “the law is not narrowly tailored. For one, the law is underinclusive, in that it bans only one kind of speaker from disseminating age-related information, leaving all other sources of that information untouched. … Even looking just at IMDb.
“Transgender people describe the impact of willful use of their old name as negatively impacting job prospects, causing feelings of dysphoria, and invalidating who they are as individuals,” the groups wrote. “Yet, IMDb continues to publish the birth names of transgender talent without their consent. They do so despite removal requests, complaints, and even lobbying from management and advocacy groups.
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