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Lambda Legal Commends Pennsylvania Human Relations Commission for Guidance Protecting LGBTQ People, Urges Adoption of Formal Rules

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May 30, 2017

On Friday, Lambda Legal submitted comments to the Pennsylvania Human Relations Commission regarding proposed guidance concerning protections for LGBTQ people under Pennsylvania Human Relations Act and Pennsylvania Fair Educational Opportunities Act, and urged the Commission to adopt rules and regulations barring sexual orientation and gender identity discrimination.

See Also: Advocacy & Inclusion, Community Education, Employment and Rights in the Workplace, Law & Policy Project, Transgender Rights
Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick Must Be Stopped

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May 21, 2017

The Texas legislature today is considering several bills and potential amendments that target LGBT Texans – and specifically transgender schoolchildren, LGBT kids in the child welfare system and potential LGBT foster and adoptive parents – for discrimination.

See Also: Anti-LGBT Rulings, Laws and Amendments, Transgender Rights
Not in Our Name, Mr. Sessions

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May 16, 2017

By touting the conviction and sentence given to Mercedes Williamson’s murderer yesterday, Sessions clearly — and cynically — hopes to use violence against transgender people as a way to disarm progressives who are speaking out against Sessions’ misguided and racially-charged approach to criminal justice.

See Also: Criminal Justice, Law & Policy Project, RACIAL JUSTICE & LOW-INCOME ADVOCACY, Resistance, Transgender Rights
Trump’s Record on LGBT Rights: Death by 1000 Cuts in the First 100 Days

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April 26, 2017

The very first action of the Trump White House on Inauguration Day was to erase all references to LGBT people and everyone living with HIV from whitehouse.gov. It’s been downhill from there.

See Also: Anti-LGBT Rulings, Laws and Amendments, Transgender Rights, Youth and Schools
Lambda Legal Sues Over Idaho's Anti-Trans Birth Certificate Policy

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April 18, 2017

Lambda Legal today filed a federal lawsuit challenging the State of Idaho’s refusal to allow transgender people to correct the gender on their birth certificates.

See Also: Transgender Rights
Justice Department Dismisses Lawsuit Against North Carolina's Discriminatory HB 2 After Fake "Repeal"

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April 14, 2017

Lambda Legal, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and ACLU of North Carolina today condemned the decision by the U.S. Department of Justice to dismiss its lawsuit challenging House Bill 2, the discriminatory North Carolina law that banned many transgender people from restrooms and other public facilities matching their gender and prohibited local municipalities from extending nondiscrimination protections to lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people.

See Also: Anti-LGBT Rulings, Laws and Amendments, Transgender Rights
Lambda Legal Sues Puerto Rico for Anti-Transgender Birth Certificate Policy

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April 6, 2017

Lambda Legal today filed a federal lawsuit on behalf of three transgender Puerto Ricans and the LGBT rights organization Puerto Rico Para Tod@s to compel the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico to allow transgender individuals to correct the gender marker on their birth certificates.

See Also: Transgender Rights
Fighting for the Rights of an Incarcerated Transgender Woman in Missouri

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April 5, 2017

Yesterday, Lambda Legal asked a federal district court to order the Missouri Department of Corrections (MDOC) and Corizon LLC (Corizon) to provide medically necessary, doctor-recommended health care for the treatment of gender dysphoria for Jessica Hicklin, a 38-year-old transgender woman incarcerated at the Potosi Correctional Center in Mineral Point, Missouri.

See Also: Criminal Justice, Transgender Rights
This HB2 "Repeal" is Fake

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March 30, 2017

The North Carolina General Assembly today passed a bill that does not repeal the discriminatory HB 2 law. Instead, it keeps in place the most harmful parts of the law.

See Also: Anti-LGBT Rulings, Laws and Amendments, Transgender Rights
North Carolina Lawmakers Need to Stop Playing Around and Get Serious About Repealing HB2

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March 28, 2017

Lambda Legal & the ACLU today denounced a last-minute proposal from General Assembly leaders that would repeal the anti-LGBT law in name only while still including provisions that would enshrine discriminatory measures into state law.

See Also: Transgender Rights