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Alaska Denied Health Care Coverage To A Transgender State Employee. We're Suing.

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By Lambda Legal

June 5, 2018

Lambda Legal this morning filed a federal lawsuit against the State of Alaska on behalf of Jennifer Fletcher, a state legislative librarian who was forced to pay out-of-pocket for medically necessary surgical treatment because the state health insurance plan prohibits such coverage only for transgender state employees.

See Also: Anti-LGBT Laws Rulings and Amendments, Health Care Fairness, Transgender Rights, Alaska
Veteran of Two Overseas Combat Zones Faces Possible Discharge Simply Because He Lives with HIV

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By Lambda Legal

May 30, 2018

Today, Lambda Legal and OutServe-SLDN filed a lawsuit on behalf of a sergeant in the D.C. Army National Guard who was denied the opportunity to serve as an officer and faces possible discharge from the United States armed services because he is living with HIV.

See Also: Anti-LGBT Laws Rulings and Amendments, Employment and Rights in the Workplace, HIV, Military
Kansas Adds Name to Roll of States Denying Children Loving Families

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By Lambda Legal

May 18, 2018

Today, Kansas Gov. Jeff Colyer signed into law Kansas SB 284, a license-to-discriminate bill that allows taxpayer-funded child welfare agencies to reject foster or adoptive parents based upon the agency's religious beliefs.

See Also: Adoption and Parenting, Anti-LGBT Laws Rulings and Amendments, Marriage Relationships and Family Protections, Teens & Young Adults, Youth in Out-of-Home Care, Kansas
Oklahoma Becomes First State In 2018 To Sign Anti-LGBTQ Legislation Into Law

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By Lambda Legal

May 11, 2018

Today, Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin signed SB 1140, a license-to-discriminate bill that would allow taxpayer-funded child welfare agencies to reject foster or adoptive parents based upon the agency’s religious beliefs.

See Also: Adoption and Parenting, Anti-LGBT Laws Rulings and Amendments, Marriage Relationships and Family Protections, Teens & Young Adults, Youth in Out-of-Home Care, Oklahoma
Lambda Legal Presses Fight for Federal LGBT Employment Discrimination Protection in New Appeals Court Case

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By Lambda Legal

March 7, 2018

Lambda Legal and co-counsel Mathis, Marifian & Richter, LTD. filed an appeal with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit on behalf of Mark Horton, a healthcare sales specialist whose job offer at St. Louis-based Midwest Geriatric Management (MGM) was withdrawn when the employer learned Horton is gay.

See Also: Anti-LGBT Laws Rulings and Amendments, Out at Work, Missouri
Federal Court Affirms Lesbian Firefighter’s Sex Discrimination Claim Under the Civil Rights Act

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By Lambda Legal

January 26, 2018

The U.S. First Circuit Court of Appeals yesterday upheld a $700,000 jury award for Lori Franchina, a lesbian firefighter who experienced extensive unchecked harassment from her co-workers at the Providence Fire Department.

See Also: Anti-LGBT Laws Rulings and Amendments, Employment and Rights in the Workplace, Massachusetts
Lambda Legal and OutServe-SLDN Ask Court to Permanently Block Transgender Military Ban

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By Lambda Legal

January 25, 2018

Lambda Legal and OutServe-SLDN today asked a federal district court to permanently block enforcement of the Trump Administration’s plan to ban transgender people from serving openly in the U.S. Armed Services.

See Also: Anti-LGBT Laws Rulings and Amendments, Health Care Fairness, Military, Transgender Rights, Washington
Trump Admin Trying to Make It Easier for Medical Providers to Discriminate Against LGBT People (Again)

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By Camilla Taylor

January 19, 2018

Today’s proposed HHS rule represents nothing less than our own government attacking LGBT people, everyone living with HIV, women and many others in urgent need of health care.

See Also: Anti-LGBT Laws Rulings and Amendments, Health Care Fairness, HIV, Reproductive Rights and Sexual Health, Transgender Rights
Defunding Public Sector Unions Will Threaten Workplace Protections

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By Lambda Legal

January 19, 2018

Public sector unions provided among the earliest protections anywhere in the US to LGBT people.

See Also: Anti-LGBT Laws Rulings and Amendments, Employment and Rights in the Workplace, Unions

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