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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
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
Victory! Federal Court Orders Health Care for Transgender Missouri Inmate

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By Lambda Legal

February 9, 2018

Today, a federal district court ordered the Missouri Department of Corrections (MDOC) and its contracted healthcare provider, Corizon LLC, to immediately provide Jessica Hicklin, a 38-year-old transgender woman incarcerated at the Potosi Correctional Center in Mineral Point, with care that her doctors deem to be medically necessary treatment for her gender dysphoria.

See Also: Criminal Justice, Health Care Fairness, Transgender Rights
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
Lambda Legal Files FOIA Request After Trump Administration Restricts Use of Seven Words at CDC

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By Lambda Legal

December 20, 2017

Today, Lambda Legal filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request for any and all documents and communications from the Trump-Pence administration regarding their prohibition of the words “vulnerable,” “entitlement,” “diversity,” “transgender,” “fetus,” “evidence-based” and “science-based” in any budget documents from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), other divisions of HHS or any government agency.

See Also: Anti-LGBT Rulings, Health Care Fairness, HIV, LAWS AND AMENDMENTS, Reproductive Rights and Sexual Health, Trangender rights
URGENT: Stop The House From Denying Health Care To Transgender Service Members

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By Sasha Buchert

July 13, 2017

Lambda Legal opposes Rep. Hartzler's anti-transgender amendment to the NDAA.

See Also: Health Care Fairness, Military, Transgender Rights, Washington, D.C.
Valerie Huber, an Abstinence-Only Sex Ed Leader, Has Been Appointed to a Key Position in the Department of Health and Human Services

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By Sharon McGowan

June 6, 2017

Today, Valerie Huber, a leader in the movement against science-based and honest sex education in schools was appointed as Chief of Staff to the Assistant Secretary for Health for the US Department of Health and Human Services.

See Also: Advocacy & Inclusion, Community Education, Health Care Fairness, Reproductive Rights and Sexual Health, Resistance, Teens & Young Adults, Transgender Rights, Washington, D.C.
Equality Act, LGBTQ Federal Non-Discrimination Bill, Reintroduced in Congress

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By Lambda Legal

May 2, 2017

Today Oregon Senator Jeff Merkley and Rhode Island Representative David Cicilline were joined by Democratic Leaders in the Senate and House as well as members of the bipartisan LGBTQ Equality Caucus to reintroduce the Equality Act, a bill to prohibit discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity in employment, housing, credit, education, and jury service.

See Also: Advocacy & Inclusion, Community Education, Employment and Rights in the Workplace, Health Care Fairness, Law & Policy Project, Marriage, Relationships and Family Protections.Transgender Rights, Youth and Schools, Washington, D.C.

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

jennifer_fletcher_social.png

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

1200x630_hicklin.png

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

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Victory! Federal Court Orders Health Care for Transgender Missouri Inmate

hicklin-ed_0.png

Lambda Legal and OutServe-SLDN Ask Court to Permanently Block Transgender Military Ban

plaintiffs_1.png

Trump Admin Trying to Make It Easier for Medical Providers to Discriminate Against LGBT People (Again)

doctor_no.png

Lambda Legal Files FOIA Request After Trump Administration Restricts Use of Seven Words at CDC

cdc.jpg

URGENT: Stop The House From Denying Health Care To Transgender Service Members

blog-trans-vets.png

Valerie Huber, an Abstinence-Only Sex Ed Leader, Has Been Appointed to a Key Position in the Department of Health and Human Services

istock-510231500.jpg

Equality Act, LGBTQ Federal Non-Discrimination Bill, Reintroduced in Congress

equalityact_branding_logo74111.png

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