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Lambda Legal, Americans United, the Center for Reproductive Rights, and the County of Santa Clara Ask Court for Immediate Halt to Implementation of Denial of Care Rule

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By Lambda Legal

June 12, 2019

The rule is so overbroad, unworkable, and sweeping in its targeting of LGBT people and women for denials of health care that it will harm patients.

See Also: Anti-LGBT Rulings, Laws and Amendments, Health Care Fairness
Lambda Legal, Americans United and Center for Reproductive Rights Sue Trump Administration to Block Denial of Care Rule

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By Lambda Legal

May 28, 2019

Today, Lambda Legal, Americans United for Separation of Church and State and the Center for Reproductive Rights filed a lawsuit challenging the “Denial of Care” Rule issued earlier this month by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

See Also: Anti-LGBT Rulings, Laws and Amendments, Health Care Fairness, HIV, Transgender Rights
Lambda Legal: Trump Administration Assault on LGBT People Continues with New ACA Regulation

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By Lambda Legal

May 24, 2019

Today, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) proposed new regulations designed to roll back regulations issued during the Obama Administration that clarified that, pursuant to federal law, the sex discrimination protections of the Affordable Care Act forbid discrimination against lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people.

See Also: Anti-LGBT Rulings, Laws and Amendments, Health Care Fairness
We're Suing The Department of Health & Human Services For Failure To Disclose Documents About LGBTQ People

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By Lambda Legal

May 22, 2019

Lambda Legal today filed a federal lawsuit to compel the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to release information about their communications with outside organizations and decisions pertaining to the health care and well-being of LGBTQ people, including the alleged suspension of the publication and implementation of LGBTQ nondiscrimination rules and regulations.

See Also: Anti-LGBT Laws Rulings and Amendments, Health Care Fairness, Reproductive Rights and Sexual Health, Transgender Rights, New York
Lambda Legal Condemns New Trump Health Care Rule Inviting Discrimination Against LGBTQ People and Women

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By Lambda Legal

May 2, 2019

Today, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced that it will soon issue a new final rule protecting health care providers who refuse to treat LGBTQ people and women and/or trans people seeking reproductive health care, solely on the basis of the providers’ religious or moral objections.

See Also: Anti-LGBT Laws Rulings and Amendments, Health Care Fairness, HIV, Religious Exemptions, Reproductive Rights and Sexual Health, Transgender Rights, Washington, D.C.
Lambda Legal and TLDEF Sue North Carolina Officials for Denying Health Coverage to Transgender Employees And Children

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By Lambda Legal

March 10, 2019

Lambda Legal and Transgender Legal Defense & Education Fund (TLDEF) filed a federal lawsuit against North Carolina officials today for discrimination in state employee health care.

See Also: Health Care Fairness, Transgender Rights, North Carolina
Victory! Lambda Legal Obtains Settlement for Oswego County Transgender Employee Denied Coverage for Transition-Related Care

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By Lambda Legal

August 23, 2018

The settlement remedies the harm done to Mr. Simonson by the refusal of health care coverage because he is transgender.

See Also: Employment and Rights in the Workplace, Health Care Fairness, Transgender Rights, New York
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
Victory! Federal Court Strikes Unlawful Policy That Denied Health Care to Incarcerated Missouri Transgender Woman

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By Lambda Legal

May 23, 2018

A federal district court has struck down a Missouri Department of Corrections (MDOC) policy as cruel and unusual punishment because it denies vital health care to transgender people, including Lambda Legal client Jessica Hicklin, a transgender woman incarcerated at the Potosi Correctional Center in Mineral Point.

See Also: Criminal Justice, Criminal Justice and Police Misconduct, Health Care Fairness, Transgender Rights, Missouri
Lambda Legal Sues California HIV/AIDS Drug Program Administrator for Privacy Breach

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By Lambda Legal

April 3, 2018

Lambda Legal today filed a class-action lawsuit in California Superior Court against A.J. Boggs & Company on behalf of 93 low-income Californians living with HIV whose confidential medical records – including their HIV status – were compromised by a data breach of A.J. Boggs’s California AIDS Drug Assistance Program (ADAP) online enrollment system.

See Also: Health Care Fairness, HIV

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Lambda Legal, Americans United, the Center for Reproductive Rights, and the County of Santa Clara Ask Court for Immediate Halt to Implementation of Denial of Care Rule

docsocial.png

Lambda Legal, Americans United and Center for Reproductive Rights Sue Trump Administration to Block Denial of Care Rule

trump_pence.jpg

Lambda Legal: Trump Administration Assault on LGBT People Continues with New ACA Regulation

1200x630_1557.png

We're Suing The Department of Health & Human Services For Failure To Disclose Documents About LGBTQ People

sad_stethoscope.jpeg

Lambda Legal Condemns New Trump Health Care Rule Inviting Discrimination Against LGBTQ People and Women

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Lambda Legal and TLDEF Sue North Carolina Officials for Denying Health Coverage to Transgender Employees And Children

clients_presser.jpeg

Victory! Lambda Legal Obtains Settlement for Oswego County Transgender Employee Denied Coverage for Transition-Related Care

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

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Victory! Federal Court Strikes Unlawful Policy That Denied Health Care to Incarcerated Missouri Transgender Woman

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Lambda Legal Sues California HIV/AIDS Drug Program Administrator for Privacy Breach

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