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Lambda Legal Sues Social Security on Behalf of Lesbian Seeking Spousal Survivor's Benefits

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September 25, 2018

Lambda Legal today filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA) on behalf of a 63-year-old lesbian seeking spousal survivor's benefits based on her relationship with her partner of 27 years, who died in 2006 before same-sex couples in the State of Washington were able to marry.

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We Must Stand with Our Muslim Family

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June 26, 2018

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Lambda Legal Raises Alarm over Supreme Court Order Reversing Washington Religious Exemptions Decision That Enforced State Nondiscrimination Law

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June 25, 2018

The U.S. Supreme Court today decided to overturn the unanimous decision of the Washington Supreme Court ruling that a Richland, WA florist had violated the Washington Law Against Discrimination when she refused to sell flowers to a same-sex couple for their wedding.

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Federal Court Denies Renewed Attempt to Implement Transgender Military Ban

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June 15, 2018

Today, a federal court in Seattle denied yet another attempt by the Trump Administration to implement its discriminatory plan to ban transgender people from serving openly in the U.S. Armed Services.

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Supreme Court Fails to Affirm LGBT Equality Rights

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June 4, 2018

Today, the U.S. Supreme Court handed the religious right a limited, fact-specific victory, ruling that the Colorado civil rights agency violated the religious rights of a Denver baker who refused to sell a same-sex couple a wedding cake.

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Victory! Mississippi Supreme Court Rules That Lesbian Spouses Are Both Legal Parents to Their Marital Children

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April 5, 2018

Today, the Mississippi Supreme Court ruled that married same-sex couples should have the same parenting rights as different sex couples in a Lambda Legal case on behalf of Chris Strickland, a non-biological lesbian mother who was denied legal parentage for children she and her now ex-wife planned for and raised together.

See Also: Adoption and Parenting, Anti-LGBT Rulings, Laws and Amendments, Marriage, Marriage Relationships and Family Protections, Same-sex relationships
When Visibility Is Not A Choice

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March 30, 2018

What happens when people are forced to be visible because their birth assigned sex on legal identity documents does not match their gender identity?

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New White House Transgender Ban Implementation Plan Solves Nothing

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March 23, 2018

The White House today released the proposed plan to implement the discriminatory transgender military ban that President Trump called for in a series of tweets in July.

See Also: Anti-LGBT Rulings, Laws and Amendments, Employment and Rights in the Workplace, Military, Transgender Rights
Lambda Legal Reaches Favorable Settlement for Passion Star, Transgender Woman Sexually Assaulted in Texas Men's Prisons

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March 15, 2018

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Oregon Courts Are Right To Reject Religious License to Discriminate

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March 15, 2018

Lambda Legal today urged the Oregon Supreme Court to deny a petition from the former owners of an Oregon bakery seeking to overturn a lower court ruling that they violated Oregon's anti-discrimination law in 2013 when they refused to sell a wedding cake to a lesbian couple because they claimed it was against their religion.

See Also: Anti-LGBT Rulings, Laws and Amendments, Marriage, Religious Exemptions, Same-sex relationships

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Lambda Legal Sues Social Security on Behalf of Lesbian Seeking Spousal Survivor's Benefits

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We Must Stand with Our Muslim Family

trans_muslim_proud.jpg

Lambda Legal Raises Alarm over Supreme Court Order Reversing Washington Religious Exemptions Decision That Enforced State Nondiscrimination Law

flowers.jpg

Federal Court Denies Renewed Attempt to Implement Transgender Military Ban

1200x630_clients.png

Supreme Court Fails to Affirm LGBT Equality Rights

scotus_mast.jpg

Victory! Mississippi Supreme Court Rules That Lesbian Spouses Are Both Legal Parents to Their Marital Children

20160905_164946.jpg

When Visibility Is Not A Choice

alexis_3.png

New White House Transgender Ban Implementation Plan Solves Nothing

3_clients.png

Lambda Legal Reaches Favorable Settlement for Passion Star, Transgender Woman Sexually Assaulted in Texas Men's Prisons

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Oregon Courts Are Right To Reject Religious License to Discriminate

sweetcakes.png

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