Blog

Find Your State

Know the laws in your state that protect LGBT people and people living with HIV.

Legal Help Desk

Call us or submit your legal questions online.

RSS Feed

Victory! NC Transgender Employees and Family Will Have Their Day in Court

1200x630_nc-plaintiffs.png

By

March 11, 2020

A U.S. District Court judge today denied North Carolina state officials’ request to dismiss a lawsuit filed last March challenging North Carolina’s blanket exclusion of medically necessary transition-related health care from the state’s employee health plan.

See Also: Anti-LGBT Laws Rulings and Amendments, Health Care Fairness, Transgender Rights
Victory! South Carolina Court Strikes Outdated Anti-LGBTQ Curriculum Law as Unconstitutional

img_0240_copy.jpg

By

March 11, 2020

The law singled out LGBTQ students for negative treatment and did not impose any comparable restriction on health education about heterosexual people.

See Also: Anti-LGBT Rulings, Laws and Amendments, Youth in Schools
Victory! New York State Changes Policy to Allow Transgender Minors to Correct Birth Certificates After Lambda Legal Lawsuit

trans_flag_photo.jpg

By

March 10, 2020

New York State announced it is changing its policy prohibiting transgender minors from correcting the sex marker on their birth certificates in a manner consistent with their gender identity.

See Also: Anti-LGBT Rulings, Laws and Amendments, Transgender Rights
VICTORY! Court Rules Alaska’s Denial of Health Care to Transgender Employee is Unlawful Discrimination

img_0232.jpg

By

March 6, 2020

A federal district court today ruled in favor of Lambda Legal client Jennifer Fletcher and ordered that the State of Alaska’s denial of health care coverage to a legislative librarian based on its blanket exclusion of medically necessary transition-related surgical treatment from AlaskaCare, the state employee health care plan, is unlawful sex discrimination that violates federal law.

See Also: Anti-LGBT Laws Rulings and Amendments, Health Care Fairness, Transgender Rights
The Social Security Administration Is Refusing to Provide Survivor's Benefits to This 66-Year-Old Gay Widower

ely_taylor.jpeg

By

March 6, 2020

Lambda Legal today asked a federal court to end the U.S. Social Security Administration’s (SSA) refusal to provide monthly spousal survivor’s benefits to a 66-year-old gay man whose husband and partner of 43 years died six months after Arizona began allowing same-sex couples to marry.

See Also: Same-sex relationships, Seniors
Puerto Rico Can't Turn Back the Clock on Trans Rights

photo-1511627456396-f96502ae8124.jpeg

By

March 3, 2020

Today, Lambda Legal warned Puerto Rico Governor Wanda Vázquez Garced that the proposed new Civil Code for the Commonwealth, which is now before the Puerto Rico Senate, is in clear contempt of a 2018 federal court order that declared unconstitutional the island’s policy prohibiting transgender Puerto Ricans from correcting their birth certificates and could expose the Puerto Rican government to sanctions and penalties.

See Also: Transgender Rights
Idaho House Passes Bill Banning Trans People from Correcting Gender on Birth Certificates

idaho_house_small.jpg

By

February 27, 2020

The Idaho House of Representatives today passed a bill that would ban transgender people from changing the sex listed on their birth certificates despite a federal court ruling two years ago declaring such a ban unconstitutional.

See Also: Transgender Rights