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Lambda Legal, ACLU Sue to Block Texas From Investigating Parents Who Support Their Transgender Kids

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March 1, 2022

"Gender-affirming care for the treatment of gender dysphoria is medically necessary care, full stop."

See Also: Anti-LGBT Rulings, Laws and Amendments, Transgender Rights, Youth and Schools
Lambda Legal Condemns Texas Gov. Abbott and AG Paxton for Targeting Health Care for Transgender Youth

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February 23, 2022

"It seems Gov. Abbott and AG Paxton are intent on proving themselves to be the harshest in their attacks on LGBTQ people and particularly transgender youth."

See Also: Health Care Fairness, Transgender Rights, Youth and Schools
In My Own Words: "Why I’m Challenging the Dallas Arboretum"

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February 4, 2022

And while I know the scars of this trauma may fade over time, I hope the memory never leaves me, because this is what is motivating me to action.

See Also: Employment and Rights in the Workplace
Texas Enacts Transgender Youth Sports Ban

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January 18, 2022

"HB 25 targets and attempts to further marginalize an already vulnerable student population by denying transgender kids the many benefits and opportunities full and equal participation in interscholastic athletics provides."

See Also: Anti-LGBT Rulings, Laws and Amendments, Transgender Rights, Youth and Schools
Lambda Legal to Work to Resolve EEOC Complaint on Behalf of Terminated Employee

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January 14, 2022

Lambda Legal has filed a complaint with the federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) against the Dallas Arboretum and Botanical Society, Inc. on behalf of a former employee who was fired after they and other Dallas Arboretum employees began including their pronouns in their email signatures and wearing pins using their pronouns.

See Also: Employment and Rights in the Workplace
Texas Politicians’ Attempts to Ban Books is Unlawful According to Civil Rights Groups

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November 23, 2021

"We will not stand by and watch politicians play games with the education and wellbeing of our children.”

See Also: Youth and Schools
Supreme Court Allows Texas’ Six-Week Abortion Ban to Go Into Effect

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September 1, 2021

“The right to decide if, when, and how to have a family is incredibly important in its own right, and is also inextricably intertwined with the right of all people—and particularly LGBTQ people—to define who they are, because, at their core, these rights are about personal autonomy and self-determination.”

See Also: Health Care Fairness
Lambda Legal and ACLU of Texas Plan to File Lawsuit if Texas Legislature Bans Medical Care for Transgender Youth

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May 11, 2021

"This is a prime example of unwarranted governmental overreach to solve a problem that does not exist."

See Also: Transgender Rights
Lambda Legal to Dallas Court: Marriage is Marriage

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May 6, 2020

See Also: Anti-LGBT Laws Rulings and Amendments, Marriage
ICE Releases Lambda Legal and Immigration Equality Clients Living with HIV

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May 1, 2020

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) late yesterday released two asylum seekers living with HIV who were detained at an ICE detention facility in eastern Texas, less than one week after Lambda Legal and Immigration Equality, along with co-counsel Vinson & Elkins, submitted a letter demanding their release. The men were severely persecuted in Cuba because of their political activism and sexual orientation and had been detained in the U.S. since October 2019.

See Also: HIV, Immigration