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Trans Kids Deserve to Thrive

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November 17, 2021

Lambda Legal Senior Attorney Ethan Rice why we must protect trans youth.

See Also: Transgender Rights, Youth and Schools
Lambda Legal and Americans United Reject Government Attempt to Duck LGBT Nondiscrimination Obligations

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November 17, 2021

“This proposal doubles down on the discrimination and harm caused when the federal government first sanctioned and enabled USCCB’s refusal to allow Fatma and Bryn to apply to foster a refugee child…”

See Also: Adoption and Parenting, Religious Exemptions
Lambda Legal Commends IOC for Reaffirming Its Commitment to Fairness and Inclusion in Athletics

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November 16, 2021

“[F]or the IOC to issue a framework that explicitly rejects the categorical ban on transgender athletes from elite level competition should send a clear message to all.”

See Also: Transgender Rights
Lambda Legal Sues North Carolina to End Birth Certificate Discrimination for Transgender People

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November 16, 2021

Today, Lambda Legal, alongside the firms Baker Botts LLP and Brooks Pierce McLendon Humphrey & Leonard LLP, filed a federal lawsuitchallenging the State of North Carolina’s discriminatory policy requiring transgender people to have undergone “sex reassignment surgery” in order for them to obtain an accurate birth certif

See Also: Anti-LGBT Rulings, Laws and Amendments, Transgender Rights
I Want to Play Golf with Other Boys. I’m Suing Tennessee for That Chance.

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November 5, 2021

I am a boy, and I want to be on the boys’ golf team so I can play among other boys.

See Also: Transgender Rights, Youth and Schools
Civil Rights Advocates Bring Federal Court Challenge to Tennessee Law Banning Trans Students in School Sports

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November 4, 2021

“Luc just wants to play golf with other boys, to be part of the team, and to improve his game. Like all kids, he just wants to play.”

See Also: Transgender Rights, Youth and Schools
Victory! Lambda Legal Secures Social Security Survivor's Benefits for Same-Sex Partners

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November 1, 2021

Today, the U.S. Department of Justice and the Social Security Administration (SSA) dismissed their Ninth Circuit appeals of two nationwide class actions won by Lambda Legal in favor of surviving same-sex spouses and partners denied equal access to social security survivor’s benefits.