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Lambda Legal & TLDEF Team Up to Help Transgender People Get Legal Name Changes in Atlanta

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October 30, 2017

Transgender Legal Defense & Education Fund (TLDEF) is joining forces with Lambda Legal to collaborate on one of TLDEF’s signature programs, the Name Change Project. The Project provides free legal name change services to low-income transgender people through partnerships with some of the nation’s most prestigious law firms and corporate law departments. TLDEF will continue to run its program in New York City, while Lambda Legal will work with TLDEF to continue developing the initiative in Atlanta and throughout Georgia.

See Also: Transgender Rights
Lambda Legal to High Court: Religious License to Discriminate Harms LGBT People from Cradle to Grave

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October 30, 2017

Lambda Legal, joined by Family Equality Council and 11 other organizations, today submitted a friend-of-the-court brief to the U.S. Supreme Court in Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission detailing the multiple everyday experiences of hundreds of LGBT individuals, same-sex couples and their families who have faced discrimination.

See Also: Religious Exemptions
Lambda Legal and ACLU Announce Proposed Settlement With North Carolina in Lawsuit Challenging Anti-LGBT Law

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October 18, 2017

Transgender people in North Carolina will not be barred from using public restrooms and other facilities that match their gender identity.

See Also: Anti-LGBT Rulings, Laws and Amendments, Transgender Rights
Judge Who Refused Adoptions to Same-Sex Couples Resigns

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October 26, 2017

In May, Lambda Legal, the American Civil Liberties Union, the ACLU of Kentucky, Kentucky’s Fairness Campaign and University of Louisville Law Professor Sam Marcosson filed a complaint against Judge Nance for violating Kentucky’s Code of Judicial Conduct by recusing himself from any adoption proceedings involving lesbian, gay and bisexual people.

See Also: Anti-LGBT Rulings, Laws and Amendments, Fair Courts Project
We're Suing a Louisiana Sheriff's Parish Over HIV Discrimination

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October 24, 2017

Today, Lambda Legal filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana on behalf of William “Liam” Pierce, after the Iberia Parish Sheriff’s office rescinded a job offer as a Sheriff’s Deputy because he is a person living with HIV.

See Also: Employment and Rights in the Workplace, HIV
Fighting Violence Against Women Living With or at Higher Risk for HIV

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October 23, 2017

The fourth annual National Day of Action to End Violence Against Women Living with HIV (“Day of Action”) could not be more timely with the recent allusions to “quarantining” people living with HIV, and long-overdue attention finally be paid to issues of violence and harassment against women.

See Also: HIV, Sex Work
Pennsylvania Lawmakers Are Trying to Prevent Transgender Children from Lower-Income Families from Receiving Health Care

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October 23, 2017

Pennsylvania lawmakers this week are considering a discriminatory and harmful amendment to the state’s Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) reauthorization legislation that would deny lower-income Pennsylvania transgender youth access to any transition-related health care services, including counseling.

See Also: Anti-LGBT Rulings, Laws and Amendments, Transgender Rights, Youth and Schools, Youth in Out-of-Home Care
California Sex Workers Deserve Their Day In Court

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October 19, 2017

Today, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit heard oral arguments in the case of Erotic Service Provider Legal, Education and Research Project (ESPLERP) v. Gascón, a case challenging California laws that criminalize sex work.

See Also: Criminal Justice, Reproductive Rights and Sexual Health
Every Terrible Thing Jeff Sessions and the DOJ Have Done Since February

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October 18, 2017

If nothing else is clear here, at least this one thing is: the current United States Department of "Justice" is going out of its way – over and over – to deny people civil rights.

See Also: Criminal Justice, Department of Justice, Jeff Sessions
Lambda Legal and 35 LGBT Groups Demand President Trump Withdraw Jeff Mateer's Nomination to Federal Bench

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October 16, 2017

Mr. Mateer’s record came to light in late September when CNN reported that he had referred to transgender children as part of "Satan's plan."

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