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August 2021

Lambda Legal Sues Virginia Department of Corrections on Behalf of Incarcerated Transgender Man Denied Medically Necessary Health Care

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August 26, 2021

“The only thing I am asking is to be treated fairly and have access to the same standard of healthcare that other incarcerated people receive."

See Also: Criminal Justice, Health Care Fairness, Transgender Rights
Lambda Legal Celebrates “Keeping Youth Safe and Healthy Act” Becoming Illinois Law

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August 20, 2021

Creates age-appropriate learning standards for public schools that choose to teach comprehensive personal health and safety education and comprehensive sexual health education

See Also: Youth and Schools
Lambda Legal Celebrates Illinois Appellate Decision Vindicating Transgender Woman in Fight Against Hobby Lobby

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August 17, 2021

“This decision is a win for all transgender people in Illinois and their right to be affirmed in their identities and to be treated with respect.”

See Also: Employment and Rights in the Workplace, Transgender Rights
MA Supreme Judicial Court Declares LGBTQ People Must Be Protected from Discrimination in Jury Selection, Reaffirms that Challenges to Discriminatory Strikes on the Basis of Race or Any Protected Class Must be Addressed Individually

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August 16, 2021

The SJC also explicitly articulated for the first time that sexual orientation is a protected class for purposes of a Batson-Soares objection to peremptory challenges

See Also: Fair Courts Project
Lambda Legal Mourns Passing of Openly Gay U.S. Ambassador and Champion for LGBTQ Rights, Jim Hormel

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August 13, 2021

“Lambda Legal, our movement, and I have lost a great and irreplaceable friend, one I will truly and deeply miss."

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