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Lambda Legal to 11th Circuit Court: School District Must Treat Transgender Students Equally

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December 5, 2019

Today, Lambda Legal asked the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit to affirm a lower court ruling holding that a suburban Jacksonville, Florida, school district must treat transgender student Drew Adams equally by allowing him to use the restroom that matches his gender identity.

See Also: Anti-LGBT Laws Rulings and Amendments, Teens & Young Adults, Transgender Rights, Youth and Schools
Abortion Access Affects Us All: LGBTQ Organizations Urge SCOTUS to Uphold Precedent

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December 2, 2019

Today, Lambda Legal joined LGBTQ advocacy organizations in a friend-of-the-court brief filed in the U.S. Supreme Court in support of June Medical Services, which is challenging Louisiana’s Act 620, an unnecessary and burdensome requirement that physicians who perform abortions have admitting privileges at a local hospital, which only serves to make it harder for patients to access abortion services.

See Also: Anti-LGBT Laws Rulings and Amendments, Reproductive Rights and Sexual Health
Lambda Legal to Court: Don’t Allow Social Security to Extend the Harms of Invalidated Marriage Bans

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November 21, 2019

Lambda Legal today asked a federal court to end the U.S. Social Security Administration’s (SSA) categorical refusal to provide spousal survivor’s benefits to a 64-year-old lesbian whose partner of 27 years died before same-sex couples in the State of Washington were able to marry.
VICTORY! Third Judge Smacks Down Trump Administration's "Denial Of Care" Rule

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November 20, 2019

See Also: Anti-LGBT Laws Rulings and Amendments, Health Care Fairness
Support Trans Youth in Out of Home Care

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November 15, 2019

Transgender and gender expansive youth as a whole are disproportionately represented within out-of-home care systems, and these unique needs and experiences are frequently not addressed within larger conversations.

See Also: Transgender Rights, Youth in Out-of-Home Care
Committing to a Year of Action: Five Ways to Honor Our Community

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November 13, 2019

See Also: Anti-LGBT Laws Rulings and Amendments, Criminal Justice and Police Misconduct, Employment and Rights in the Workplace, Health Care Fairness, Housing, Transgender Rights
The Trump Administration Continues to Pack the Courts. We Continue to Fight.

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November 7, 2019
Senate Judiciary Republicans Failed To Stop Advancement of One of Trump's Most Dangerous Judicial Nominees

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November 7, 2019

Once again, Senate Judiciary Republicans have chosen to close ranks in order to advance one of Donald Trump’s most dangerous nominees to date, Steven Menashi for the Second Circuit Court of Appeals.

See Also: Fair Courts Project
A Federal Trial Court in New York Fully Vacated HHS's "Denial of Care" Rule

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November 6, 2019

See Also: Anti-LGBT Laws Rulings and Amendments, Health Care Fairness, HIV, Religious Exemptions, Reproductive Rights and Sexual Health
A Gay Man Was Sentenced to Die By a Jury Tainted with Antigay Bias.

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November 5, 2019

Last night, Charles Rhines, a South Dakota gay man, was put to death by lethal injection after the U.S. Supreme Court rejected a final motion that would have allowed Rhines to bring new evidence to the Court showing that antigay bias may have motivated the jury to sentence him to death.

See Also: Anti-LGBT Laws Rulings and Amendments, Criminal Justice, Fair Courts Project

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Lambda Legal to 11th Circuit Court: School District Must Treat Transgender Students Equally

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Abortion Access Affects Us All: LGBTQ Organizations Urge SCOTUS to Uphold Precedent

hospital.jpeg

Lambda Legal to Court: Don’t Allow Social Security to Extend the Harms of Invalidated Marriage Bans

image001.png

VICTORY! Third Judge Smacks Down Trump Administration's "Denial Of Care" Rule

black_man_getting_blood_pressure_checked_with_white_medic_cu.jpg

Support Trans Youth in Out of Home Care

ted_eytan.jpg

Committing to a Year of Action: Five Ways to Honor Our Community

social_tdor_1.png

The Trump Administration Continues to Pack the Courts. We Continue to Fight.

gay_scotus.png

Senate Judiciary Republicans Failed To Stop Advancement of One of Trump's Most Dangerous Judicial Nominees

steven-menashi.jpg

A Federal Trial Court in New York Fully Vacated HHS's "Denial of Care" Rule

health_care.jpeg

A Gay Man Was Sentenced to Die By a Jury Tainted with Antigay Bias.

istock-681164016.jpg

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