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Lambda Legal Condemns New Trump Health Care Rule Inviting Discrimination Against LGBTQ People and Women

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May 2, 2019

Today, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced that it will soon issue a new final rule protecting health care providers who refuse to treat LGBTQ people and women and/or trans people seeking reproductive health care, solely on the basis of the providers’ religious or moral objections.

See Also: Anti-LGBT Laws Rulings and Amendments, Health Care Fairness, HIV, Religious Exemptions, Reproductive Rights and Sexual Health, Transgender Rights
Lambda Legal Sues Tennessee Over Anti-Transgender Birth Certificate Policy

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April 23, 2019

Today Lambda Legal filed a federal lawsuit challenging Tennessee’s policy prohibiting transgender people born in Tennessee from correcting the gender marker on their birth certificates.

See Also: Transgender Rights
Lambda Legal Applauds Passage of House Resolution Condemning Transgender Military Ban

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March 28, 2019

Today, Sharon McGowan, Legal Director and Chief Strategy Officer of Lambda Legal, issued the following statement after the House of Representatives passed a non-binding resolution rejecting President Trump’s ban on transgender people serving openly in the military.

See Also: Military, Transgender Rights
Equality Act Introduced in Congress

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March 13, 2019

This bipartisan legislation will update existing federal nondiscrimination laws, including the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Fair Housing Act, to confirm that discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity is unlawful discrimination based on sex.

See Also: Employment and Rights in the Workplace, Housing, Religious Exemptions, Transgender Rights
Lambda Legal and TLDEF Sue North Carolina Officials for Denying Health Coverage to Transgender Employees And Children

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March 10, 2019

Lambda Legal and Transgender Legal Defense & Education Fund (TLDEF) filed a federal lawsuit against North Carolina officials today for discrimination in state employee health care.

See Also: Health Care Fairness, Transgender Rights
Lambda Legal Mourns Death of Kansas LGBTQ Leader Stephanie Mott and Honors Her Legacy

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March 5, 2019

After the passing of LGBTQ leader and trailblazer Stephanie Mott, former chair of Equality Kansas and founder of Kansas Statewide Transgender Education Project (K-STEP), Lambda Legal Senior Attorney Omar Gonzalez-Pagan released the following statement.

See Also: Transgender Rights
Eleventh Circuit Court Must Affirm Trial Ruling Allowing A Transgender Florida Student To Use the Right Restroom

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February 22, 2019

Lambda Legal today urged the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit to affirm a lower court ruling and require a suburban Jacksonville, Florida, school district to allow a transgender male student to continue to use the restroom that matches who he is.

See Also: Anti-LGBT Laws Rulings and Amendments, Transgender Rights, Youth and Schools
We Applaud Bipartisan Legislation Introduced To Defend Transgender Service Members

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February 7, 2019

See Also: Military, Transgender Rights
New York Passes Gender Expression Non-Discrimination Act (GENDA) and Legislation Banning “Conversion Therapy”

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January 15, 2019

The New York legislature today passed two pro-LGBTQ bills, the Gender Expression Non-Discrimination Act (GENDA) and a law banning so-called “conversion therapy.”

See Also: Employment and Rights in the Workplace, Transgender Rights, Youth and Schools, Youth in Out-of-Home Care
LGBTQ Advocates Urge Eleventh Circuit to Uphold Lower Court Ruling to Provide Medical Care to Transgender Woman in Florida Prison

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January 10, 2019

See Also: Criminal Justice, Criminal Justice and Police Misconduct, Transgender Rights

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Lambda Legal Condemns New Trump Health Care Rule Inviting Discrimination Against LGBTQ People and Women

medical.jpeg

Lambda Legal Sues Tennessee Over Anti-Transgender Birth Certificate Policy

1200x630_plainttiffs.png

Lambda Legal Applauds Passage of House Resolution Condemning Transgender Military Ban

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Equality Act Introduced in Congress

rainbow_flag.png

Lambda Legal and TLDEF Sue North Carolina Officials for Denying Health Coverage to Transgender Employees And Children

clients_presser.jpeg

Lambda Legal Mourns Death of Kansas LGBTQ Leader Stephanie Mott and Honors Her Legacy

1wwm7ror_400x400.jpg

Eleventh Circuit Court Must Affirm Trial Ruling Allowing A Transgender Florida Student To Use the Right Restroom

drew.jpg

We Applaud Bipartisan Legislation Introduced To Defend Transgender Service Members

1200x630_karnoski-salut1.png

New York Passes Gender Expression Non-Discrimination Act (GENDA) and Legislation Banning “Conversion Therapy”

pride_flag.jpg

LGBTQ Advocates Urge Eleventh Circuit to Uphold Lower Court Ruling to Provide Medical Care to Transgender Woman in Florida Prison

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