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Lambda Legal Applauds as President Biden Rescinds Transgender Military Ban

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January 25, 2021

President Biden honored a commitment he made during the 2020 campaign and announced the rescission of the discriminatory ban on open military service by transgender people.
Lambda Legal Appears on BBC World News

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January 22, 2021
Lambda Legal Applauds President Biden’s Quick Action to Strengthen Antidiscrimination Protections for LGBTQ People

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January 20, 2021

“… LGBTQ people can now have confidence that the federal government will actually defend, rather than resist, our right to be free from discrimination.”

See Also: Employment and Rights in the Workplace, Healthcare Fairness, Housing, Youth and Schools
Lambda Legal Hails Biden Administration Rescission of Trump Ban on Speech about Systemic Racism, Sexism, and Implicit Bias

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January 20, 2021

President Biden today rescinded the Trump administration executive order that prohibited federal contractors and grantees from conducting workplace diversity trainings or engaging in grant-funded work that explicitly acknowledges and confronts the existence of structural racism and sexism in our society.

See Also: Racial Justice & Low Income Advocacy
10 Things LGBTQ People and People Living with HIV Need from the Biden-Harris Administration

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January 20, 2021

Lambda Legal has filed 46 federal lawsuits against the Trump administration to beat back their efforts to harm LGBTQ people and everyone living with HIV.

See Also: Anti-LGBT Rulings, Laws and Amendments, Criminal Justice, Criminal Justice and Police Misconduct, Employment and Rights in the Workplace, Fair Courts Project, Health Care Fairness, HIV, Immigration, Marriage Relationships and Family Protections, Military, Racial Justice & Low Income Advocacy, Religious Exemptions, Reproductive Rights and Sexual Health, Teens & Young Adults, Transgender Rights, Youth and Schools, Youth in Out-of-Home Care
Lambda Legal and Several Advocacy Groups Sue Trump Administration for Gutting Religious Nondiscrimination Protections

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January 19, 2021

Lambda Legal and a coalition of service and advocacy groups filed suit against the Trump administration for rolling back religious freedom protections that required faith-based organizations providing critical, taxpayer-funded services (like food and shelter) to inform recipients of their legal rights to b
Lambda Legal Celebrates Biden Nomination of Dr. Rachel L. Levine as Assistant Secretary of HHS

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January 19, 2021

Today, the incoming Biden-Harris administration has announced plans to tap Dr. Rachel L. Levine to serve as assistant secretary of the United States Department of Health and Human Services.

See Also: Healthcare Fairness
Trump Administration Launches Another Eleventh Hour Attack on LGBTQ Community with New HHS Rule Inviting Grantees to Discriminate

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January 8, 2021

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Thursday announced a rule that will permit social service agencies and providers that receive HHS grant funding to discriminate on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity, as well as religion and sex.

See Also: Health Care Fairness, Youth in Out-of-Home Care
Federal Judge Blocks Trump Administration's "Death to Asylum" Rule

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January 8, 2021

In response to a request from Lambda Legal, Immigration Equality, and Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP, the U.S.

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Lambda Legal: Biden Choices for DOJ Confront Tall Task to Restore Trust in the Institution

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January 7, 2021

Today, President-elect Joseph Biden announced his nominees for key leadership positions in the U.S. Department of Justice: U.S. Circuit Court Judge Merrick Garland for Attorney General; former homeland security adviser Lisa Monaco as Deputy Attorney General; former Justice Department civil rights chief Vanita Gupta as Associate Attorney General; and Kristen Clark, president of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, as Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights.

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Lambda Legal Applauds as President Biden Rescinds Transgender Military Ban

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Lambda Legal Appears on BBC World News

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Lambda Legal Applauds President Biden’s Quick Action to Strengthen Antidiscrimination Protections for LGBTQ People

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Lambda Legal Hails Biden Administration Rescission of Trump Ban on Speech about Systemic Racism, Sexism, and Implicit Bias

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10 Things LGBTQ People and People Living with HIV Need from the Biden-Harris Administration

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Lambda Legal and Several Advocacy Groups Sue Trump Administration for Gutting Religious Nondiscrimination Protections

hhs-faith-based_social_img_sq.png

Lambda Legal Celebrates Biden Nomination of Dr. Rachel L. Levine as Assistant Secretary of HHS

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Trump Administration Launches Another Eleventh Hour Attack on LGBTQ Community with New HHS Rule Inviting Grantees to Discriminate

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Federal Judge Blocks Trump Administration's "Death to Asylum" Rule

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Lambda Legal: Biden Choices for DOJ Confront Tall Task to Restore Trust in the Institution

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