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Five Ways That the Newly Released Hospital Guidelines Protect Transgender People Seeking Medical Care

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May 27, 2016

We want you to know your rights as you advocate for yourself in health care settings.
Want to Cut Violence Against Our Communities? Decriminalize Sex Work!

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May 26, 2016

What’s the cost to our communities of outlawing sex work?

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Lambda Legal Sues California Barbershop for Refusing to Serve Transgender Customer

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May 25, 2016

Lambda Legal and the law firm of Munger, Tolles & Olson today filed a lawsuit in California Superior Court against a southern California barbershop alleging the business violated California’s civil rights laws when it denied Kendall Oliver, who is transgender, a haircut based on religious objections to serving customers who are female or perceived as female.

See Also: Transgender Rights
Lambda Legal Weighs Options as Texas and Other States Sue Federal Government for Protecting Transgender People

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May 25, 2016

Today, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced that Texas and other states and officials have filed a lawsuit challenging the Obama Administration’s recently released guidance to schools across the country clarifying that federal law already prohibits discrimination against students based on gender identity.

See Also: Anti-LGBT Rulings, Laws and Amendments, Law & Policy Project
LGBT Advocates Issue Revised Guidelines for Hospitals Treating Transgender Patients

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May 25, 2016

Lambda Legal, the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) and the LGBT Rights Committee of the New York City Bar Association, with pro bono assistance from Hogan Lovells US, LLP, and Proskauer Rose LLP, today released an update to their ground-breaking 2013 publication that provided guidance to hospitals seeking to improve health care for transgender patients.

See Also: Health Care Fairness, Transgender Rights
Supreme Court Strengthens Constitutional Prohibition Against Racial Discrimination in Jury Selection

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May 24, 2016

Discrimination against LGBT people often finds its way into the courtroom, denying them equal access to justice and an equal opportunity to participate in civic life.
Romer v. Evans at 20: We’ve Been Here Before

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May 20, 2016

Today marks the 20th anniversary of the groundbreaking U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Romer v. Evans, Lambda Legal’s successful challenge, in partnership with the ACLU and some of Colorado’s top lawyers, to Colorado’s Amendment 2.

See Also: Anti-LGBT Rulings, Laws and Amendments, HB2, Law & Policy Project, Romer v. Evans