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Lambda Legal Sues Virginia Department of Corrections on Behalf of Incarcerated Transgender Man Denied Medically Necessary Health Care

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August 26, 2021

“The only thing I am asking is to be treated fairly and have access to the same standard of healthcare that other incarcerated people receive."

See Also: Criminal Justice, Health Care Fairness, Transgender Rights
10 Things LGBTQ People and People Living with HIV Need from the Biden-Harris Administration

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January 20, 2021

Lambda Legal has filed 46 federal lawsuits against the Trump administration to beat back their efforts to harm LGBTQ people and everyone living with HIV.

See Also: Anti-LGBT Rulings, Laws and Amendments, Criminal Justice, Criminal Justice and Police Misconduct, Employment and Rights in the Workplace, Fair Courts Project, Health Care Fairness, HIV, Immigration, Marriage Relationships and Family Protections, Military, Racial Justice & Low Income Advocacy, Religious Exemptions, Reproductive Rights and Sexual Health, Teens & Young Adults, Transgender Rights, Youth and Schools, Youth in Out-of-Home Care
Abuse and Neglect of Transgender People in Prisons and Jails: A Lawyer’s Perspective

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November 25, 2020

We must invest in and center transgender people who are the most impacted.

See Also: Criminal Justice, Criminal Justice and Police Misconduct, Transgender Rights
OPINION: The appointment of Amy Coney Barett to the Supreme Court should ring alarm bells for the LGBT+ community

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October 6, 2020

If Amy Coney Barrett is confirmed to the Supreme Court, the body, already leaning to the right, would be an ultra-conservative court the likes that we have not seen in decades.

See Also: Criminal Justice, Criminal Justice and Police Misconduct, SCOTUS, Supreme Court, U.S. Supreme Court
Lambda Legal: Black and Brown LGBTQ People Particularly Vulnerable to State-sponsored Violence

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June 9, 2020

Lambda Legal late yesterday submitted written testimony to the newly formed Presidential Commission on Law Enforcement and the Administration of Justice highlighting the disproportionate levels of violence and abuse that LGBTQ people, especially LGBTQ people of color, experience in the U.S. criminal legal system.

See Also: Criminal Justice, Criminal Justice and Police Misconduct
Lambda Legal Affirms Right to Protest Police Violence After Trump Remarks

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June 1, 2020

Peaceful protest is an American birthright.

See Also: Criminal Justice, Criminal Justice and Police Misconduct, Racial Justice & Low Income Advocacy
Prisons Must Begin Releasing People to Stop COVID-19

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May 4, 2020

Prisons, jails, and detention centers are a deadly culture broth for highly contagious viruses like COVID-19.

See Also: Coronavirus, Criminal Justice, Health Care Fairness
67 Years Later, Bayard Rustin’s California Arrest and Jail Time Have Been Pardoned

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February 7, 2020

But discriminatory arrests for consensual sex like his continue today.

See Also: Anti-LGBT Rulings, Laws and Amendments, Criminal Justice, Criminal Justice and Police Misconduct, Racial Justice & Low Income Advocacy
A Gay Man Was Sentenced to Die By a Jury Tainted with Antigay Bias.

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November 5, 2019

Last night, Charles Rhines, a South Dakota gay man, was put to death by lethal injection after the U.S. Supreme Court rejected a final motion that would have allowed Rhines to bring new evidence to the Court showing that antigay bias may have motivated the jury to sentence him to death.

See Also: Anti-LGBT Laws Rulings and Amendments, Criminal Justice, Fair Courts Project
7 Questions LGBTQ People Have for the 2020 Presidential Candidates

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October 10, 2019

As the 2020 election approaches, all eyes are on D.C. (and sometimes on Twitter).

See Also: Adoption and Parenting, Anti-LGBT Rulings, Laws and Amendments, Criminal Justice, Criminal Justice and Police Misconduct, Employment and Rights in the Workplace, Fair Courts Project, Health Care Fairness, HIV, Housing, Intersex, Law & Policy Project, Marriage, Marriage Relationships and Family Protections, Military, Racial Justice & Low Income Advocacy, Religious Exemptions, Reproductive Rights and Sexual Health, Same-sex relationships, Teens & Young Adults, Transgender Rights

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