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Lambda Legal Sues Blue Cross Blue Shield of Illinois Over Anti-Transgender Policy

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By Lambda Legal

November 23, 2020

The suit challenges BCBSIL's blanket exclusion of gender-affirming care in an employer-provided health insurance plan provided by Catholic Health Initiatives Franciscan.

See Also: Health Care Fairness, Transgender Rights, Illinois, Washington
West Virginia Medicaid Participants & State Employees File Suit Challenging Ban on Transgender Health Coverage

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By Lambda Legal

November 12, 2020

The lawsuit challenges West Virginia’s blanket exclusions of coverage of care for transgender people.

See Also: Health Care Fairness, Transgender Rights, West Virginia
Lambda Legal Sues Trump Administration over Executive Order Banning Diversity Training

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By Lambda Legal

November 3, 2020

The Order prohibits federal contractors and grantees from conducting workplace diversity trainings or engaging in grant-funded work that explicitly acknowledges and confronts the existence of structural racism and sexism in our society.

See Also: Racial Justice & Low Income Advocacy
Victory! State Department Withdraws Appeal in Cases of Same-Sex Couples' Children Refused Passports

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By Lambda Legal

October 27, 2020

Multiple federal district courts found the U.S. Department of State’s refusal to recognize the U.S. citizenship of the children born abroad to two married same-sex, U.S. citizen couples to be unlawful.

See Also: Adoption and Parenting, Immigration, Marriage, Marriage Relationships and Family Protections, Same-sex relationships
Advocates Urge Federal Court to Affirm Ruling Striking Down Trump Administration Denial of Care Rule

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By Lambda Legal

October 14, 2020

The Denial of Care Rule invited health care workers to deny medical treatment, information and services to patients because of personal religious or moral beliefs

See Also: Health Care Fairness, Transgender Rights
What You Need to Know About Amy Coney Barrett

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By Lambda Legal

October 12, 2020

It is impossible to overstate how consequential a Justice Coney Barrett would be to the rights of LGBTQ people and everyone living with HIV.

See Also: Fair Courts Project, Supreme Court, U.S. Supreme Court
The Senate Judiciary Committee Must Oppose Amy Coney Barrett

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By Lambda Legal

October 9, 2020

Today, Lambda Legal sent a letter to the Senate Judiciary Committee urging the members to oppose Judge Amy Coney Barrett, President Trump’s nominee to fill the seat of the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the United States Supreme Court.

See Also: Fair Courts Project, Supreme Court, U.S. Supreme Court
Lambda Legal Mourns the Passing of Pioneer Journalist and LGBTQ Advocate Monica Roberts

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By Lambda Legal

October 8, 2020

Her love for and her commitment to her community saved lives.

See Also: Transgender Rights
The Nomination & Consideration of Justice Ginsburg's Replacement Must Be Delayed

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By Lambda Legal

September 18, 2020

The seat held by the late Ruth Bader Ginsburg must not be filled until after a new Senate and possibly a new President is seated in January 2021.

See Also: Fair Courts Project, Supreme Court, U.S. Supreme Court
Lambda Legal Argues in Court to Halt Pentagon Discrimination Against People Living With HIV

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By Lambda Legal

September 14, 2020

Today, Lambda Legal and the Modern Military Association of America (MMAA) asked a federal district court to bar the Trump Administration and the Pentagon from discriminating against people living with HIV by denying them the opportunity to enlist, deploy, or commission as an officer.

See Also: HIV, Military

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Lambda Legal Sues Blue Cross Blue Shield of Illinois Over Anti-Transgender Policy

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West Virginia Medicaid Participants & State Employees File Suit Challenging Ban on Transgender Health Coverage

1200x630_wv-clients.png

Lambda Legal Sues Trump Administration over Executive Order Banning Diversity Training

trump.jpg

Victory! State Department Withdraws Appeal in Cases of Same-Sex Couples' Children Refused Passports

1200x630_kivitimize2.png

Advocates Urge Federal Court to Affirm Ruling Striking Down Trump Administration Denial of Care Rule

denial-of-care-fb.png

What You Need to Know About Amy Coney Barrett

screen_shot_2020-10-12_at_1.54.35_pm.png

The Senate Judiciary Committee Must Oppose Amy Coney Barrett

acb_rose_garden.png

Lambda Legal Mourns the Passing of Pioneer Journalist and LGBTQ Advocate Monica Roberts

monica.jpg

The Nomination & Consideration of Justice Ginsburg's Replacement Must Be Delayed

mcconnnell_small.jpg

Lambda Legal Argues in Court to Halt Pentagon Discrimination Against People Living With HIV

nick_harrison.jpeg

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