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Lambda Legal Commends IOC for Reaffirming Its Commitment to Fairness and Inclusion in Athletics

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By Lambda Legal

November 16, 2021

“[F]or the IOC to issue a framework that explicitly rejects the categorical ban on transgender athletes from elite level competition should send a clear message to all.”

See Also: Transgender Rights, United States
Lambda Legal Sues North Carolina to End Birth Certificate Discrimination for Transgender People

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By Lambda Legal

November 16, 2021

Today, Lambda Legal, alongside the firms Baker Botts LLP and Brooks Pierce McLendon Humphrey & Leonard LLP, filed a federal lawsuitchallenging the State of North Carolina’s discriminatory policy requiring transgender people to have undergone “sex reassignment surgery” in order for them to obtain an accurate birth certif

See Also: Anti-LGBT Rulings, Laws and Amendments, Transgender Rights, North Carolina
I Want to Play Golf with Other Boys. I’m Suing Tennessee for That Chance.

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By Lambda Legal

November 5, 2021

I am a boy, and I want to be on the boys’ golf team so I can play among other boys.

See Also: Transgender Rights, Youth and Schools, Tennessee
Civil Rights Advocates Bring Federal Court Challenge to Tennessee Law Banning Trans Students in School Sports

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By Lambda Legal

November 4, 2021

“Luc just wants to play golf with other boys, to be part of the team, and to improve his game. Like all kids, he just wants to play.”

See Also: Transgender Rights, Youth and Schools, Tennessee
Victory! Lambda Legal Secures Social Security Survivor's Benefits for Same-Sex Partners

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By Lambda Legal

November 1, 2021

Today, the U.S. Department of Justice and the Social Security Administration (SSA) dismissed their Ninth Circuit appeals of two nationwide class actions won by Lambda Legal in favor of surviving same-sex spouses and partners denied equal access to social security survivor’s benefits.
Information for Surviving Same-Sex Partners and Spouses Previously Excluded from Social Security Survivor’s Benefits Because of Unconstitutional State Marriage Laws

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By Lambda Legal

November 1, 2021

Lambda Legal has won victories in two class action lawsuits on behalf of surviving same-sex partners and spouses across the country who were denied Social Security survivor’s benefits because they were unable to be married for at least nine months before their partners and spouses died because of discriminatory state marriage laws.
Lambda Legal Client Dana Zzyym Receives First 'X' U.S. Passport

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By Lambda Legal

October 27, 2021

“It took six years, but to have an accurate passport, one that doesn’t force me to identify as male or female but recognizes I am neither, is liberating.”

See Also: Intersex, Colorado