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Today, Lambda Legal filed legal papers on behalf of Indiana Youth Group (IYG) to join a lawsuit in a case before the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana to protect the interests of transgender students from attack by a teacher who sued the Brownsburg Community School Corporation after officials asked him to refer to transgender students in his classroom accurately by their full names, as requested by their parents and recorded in the school’s database.

Lambda Legal will honor Krisztina Inskeep at its Indiana Benefit, the largest annual LGBTQ civil rights event in the state. Every year, Lambda Legal gives special honors to a leader whose work advances the civil rights for LGBTQ people and everyone living with HIV in the Hoosier state. This year Lambda Legal is proud to honor Krisztina Inskeep with the Indiana Benefit’s 2017 Leadership Award.

The U.S. Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals today granted en banc review in Hively v. Ivy Tech Community College, meaning that the entire court will hear the employment discrimination appeal of Lambda Legal’s client, Kimberly Hively.

On Friday, September 16, Lambda Legal will honor the NCAA at its annual Indiana Benefit, the largest annual LGBT civil rights event in the state, in recognition of the NCAA’s leadership in promoting fairness and equality for LGBT people in the Hoosier state and throughout the country.