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Legal Advocates Urge Full Fifth Circuit to Rehear Case Challenging Anti-LGBT Mississippi Law

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July 6, 2017

Mississippi’s HB 1523 is an extreme discrimination law dressed up in religious clothes.

See Also: Anti-LGBT Rulings, Laws and Amendments
Texas Supreme Court Ruling Revives Attacks on Same-Sex Marriage

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June 30, 2017

The Texas Supreme Court today defied the U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Obergefell v. Hodges which ushered in the freedom to marry for same-sex couples nationwide, saying it leaves open questions whether Texas municipalities must extend access to spousal benefits including health insurance to the legal same-sex spouses of municipal employees in the same way it does for other married employees.

See Also: Marriage Relationships and Family Protections, Same-sex relationships
My High School Won't Let Me Use the Bathroom, so I’m Suing It

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June 28, 2017

My name is Drew Adams. I’m a 16-year-old soon-to-be-junior in Florida. I'm also transgender.

See Also: Transgender Rights, Youth and Schools
Lambda Legal Sues Florida School District Barring Transgender Student From Correct Bathroom

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June 28, 2017

Lambda Legal today filed a federal discrimination lawsuit in the Middle District of Florida against the St. Johns County School Board in St. Augustine, FL, near Jacksonville, on behalf of Drew Adams, a 16-year-old boy, who is being denied access to the boys’ restroom because he is transgender.

See Also: Teens & Young Adults, Transgender Rights, Youth and Schools
Court Reopens Lambda Legal Case of Intersex Citizen Denied a Passport

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June 27, 2017

A federal district court in Denver today granted Lambda Legal’s motion to reopen the case of Dana Zzyym, the intersex citizen and U.S. Navy veteran denied a passport because the U.S. State Department continues to refuse to recognize a gender marker that is neither “M” (male) nor “F” (female).

See Also: Intersex
State Department Again Denies Intersex Citizen Passport, Even After Federal Court Tells It To Reconsider Policy

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June 26, 2017

The U.S. State Department continues to refuse to recognize a gender marker that is neither “M” (male) nor “F” (female).

See Also: Intersex, Intersex Rights
Puerto Rico Is Denying Transgender People Accurate Birth Certificates; Lambda Legal Is Suing

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June 26, 2017

Lambda Legal filed papers urging a federal court to strike down Puerto Rico’s policy denying transgender people accurate birth certificates.

See Also: Transgender Rights
Lambda Legal Has Been Telling Courts for Years That the Civil Rights Act Protects LGBTQ People; Now It's the Second Circuit's Turn

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June 26, 2017

Lambda Legal filed an amicus brief supporting the estate of Donald Zarda, a New York skydiving instructor who was fired from his job because he was gay.

See Also: Employment and Rights in the Workplace
U.S. Supreme Court Smacks Down Arkansas’s Attempt to Treat Married Same-Sex Parents Unequally

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June 26, 2017

The U.S. Supreme Court made clear that states may not treat same-sex married couples differently than other married couples.

See Also: Marriage, Marriage Relationships and Family Protections, Same-sex relationships
Fifth Circuit Unleashes Anti-LGBT Mississippi Law, HB 1523

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June 22, 2017

The U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals reversed the injunction against Mississippi House Bill 1523, the discriminatory anti-LGBT legislation challenged in Barber v. Bryant, the federal lawsuit brought by Mississippi civil rights attorney Robert McDuff, the Mississippi Center for Justice and Lambda Legal. The advocates will continue to fight this discriminatory law.

See Also: Anti-LGBT Rulings, Laws and Amendments, Religious Exemptions