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Florida AHCA Launches Sham Anti-Transgender Rule-Making Process

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June 17, 2022

The Florida Agency for Health Care Administration (ACHA) today issued a Notice of Proposed Rule for a new rule that would deny Medicaid coverage for all medically necessary gender-affirming care for both youth and adults.

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Victory! Court Rules for Transgender North Carolina State Employees Denied Health Care Coverage

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June 10, 2022

In lawsuit filed by Lambda Legal and TLDEF, U.S. District Court finds that the North Carolina state health plan’s categorical exclusion of medically necessary gender-affirming health care is discriminatory and unlawful.

See Also: Anti-LGBT Rulings, Laws and Amendments, Health Care Fairness, Transgender Rights
Lambda Legal Condemns Arizona Legislature’s Discriminatory Trifecta

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March 24, 2022

The Arizona Legislature today forced through three discriminatory bills, two targeting transgender youth by limiting gender-affirming care and banning transgender girls from participating in school sports, and one imposing a 15-week abortion ban.

See Also: Health Care Fairness, Reproductive Rights and Sexual Health, Transgender Rights
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
LGBTQ and Women’s Rights Organizations Urge Eighth Circuit to Affirm District Court Ruling Blocking Arkansas’s Trans Health Care Ban

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January 19, 2022

“Arkansas’s trans health care ban is as dangerous as it is unlawful.”

See Also: Anti-LGBT Rulings, Laws and Amendments, Health Care Fairness, Transgender Rights
Victory! U.S. Supreme Court Rejects North Carolina State Health Plan’s Effort to Shield Itself from Health Care Discrimination Lawsuits

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January 18, 2022

“Today’s decision protects the rights of marginalized people, including LGBTQ people and people living with HIV, to seek justice and obtain relief in court if they are subjected to health care discrimination.”

See Also: Anti-LGBT Rulings, Laws and Amendments, Health Care Fairness, Transgender Rights
Lambda Legal Reacts to Supreme Court Decision Allowing Challenge to Texas Abortion Ban to Move Forward

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December 10, 2021

“We are outraged that SB 8 continues to block access to life-saving health care, of which abortion is an essential component, full stop.”

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Cazembe Murphy Jackson Wants More LGBTQ People Like Him to Tell Their Abortion Stories

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December 6, 2021

See Also: Anti-LGBT Rulings, Laws and Amendments, Health Care Fairness
Lambda Legal to Justice Kavanaugh: Not in Our Name

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December 1, 2021

Lambda Legal reacts to Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s dangerous suggestion that landmark LGBTQ cases support overturning abortion rights

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Lambda Legal Add Two Additional Transgender Plaintiffs to its Challenge to West Virginia’s Unlawful Ban On Health Care Coverage

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September 23, 2021

Today, Lambda Legal filed a motion seeking leave to add two additional plaintiffs—a Medicaid participant and a public employee—to its federal class-action lawsuit challenging West Virginia's blanket exclusion of health care coverage for transgender people in West Virgini

See Also: Health Care Fairness, Transgender Rights

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Florida AHCA Launches Sham Anti-Transgender Rule-Making Process

hospital_icu_ekg_machine_and_beds.jpg

Victory! Court Rules for Transgender North Carolina State Employees Denied Health Care Coverage

kadelmax_03.jpg

Lambda Legal Condemns Arizona Legislature’s Discriminatory Trifecta

arizona-state-flag_resized_2.png

Lambda Legal Condemns Texas Gov. Abbott and AG Paxton for Targeting Health Care for Transgender Youth

shutterstock_1751259323.jpg

LGBTQ and Women’s Rights Organizations Urge Eighth Circuit to Affirm District Court Ruling Blocking Arkansas’s Trans Health Care Ban

hospital_icu_ekg_machine_and_beds.jpg

Victory! U.S. Supreme Court Rejects North Carolina State Health Plan’s Effort to Shield Itself from Health Care Discrimination Lawsuits

shutterstock_1433782895.jpg

Lambda Legal Reacts to Supreme Court Decision Allowing Challenge to Texas Abortion Ban to Move Forward

shutterstock_1403976230.jpg

Cazembe Murphy Jackson Wants More LGBTQ People Like Him to Tell Their Abortion Stories

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Lambda Legal to Justice Kavanaugh: Not in Our Name

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Lambda Legal Add Two Additional Transgender Plaintiffs to its Challenge to West Virginia’s Unlawful Ban On Health Care Coverage

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