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Idaho House Passes Bill Banning Trans People from Correcting Gender on Birth Certificates

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By Lambda Legal

February 27, 2020

The Idaho House of Representatives today passed a bill that would ban transgender people from changing the sex listed on their birth certificates despite a federal court ruling two years ago declaring such a ban unconstitutional.

See Also: Transgender Rights, Idaho
We're Suing South Carolina for Discriminating Against LGBTQ Students

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By Lambda Legal

February 26, 2020

See Also: Anti-LGBT Rulings, Laws and Amendments, Youth and Schools, South Carolina
We Call for #JusticeForAlexa

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By Lambda Legal

February 25, 2020

After news of the murder of Neulisa Luciano Ruiz, known as Alexa, a transgender woman in Puerto Rico in a possible hate crime, Omar Gonzalez-Pagan, Senior Attorney at Lambda Legal, issued a statement.

See Also: Transgender Rights, Puerto Rico
Supreme Court Needs to Reject Religion as Legal Grounds for Discrimination in Foster Care

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By Lambda Legal

February 24, 2020

“The Supreme Court has the opportunity to affirm the basic principle that when agencies accept government money to provide services to children involved in the public foster care system, their religious beliefs are not a license to discriminate.”
Alaska’s Policy Denying Health Care Coverage for Transgender Employees Must End

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By Lambda Legal

February 19, 2020

Lambda Legal today urged the U.S. District Court for the District of Alaska to end the State of Alaska’s blanket exclusion of medically necessary transition-related surgical treatment from AlaskaCare, the state employee health care plan, and to obtain relief for Jennifer Fletcher, a state legislative librarian, who was forced to pay out of pocket for her medical treatment.

See Also: Anti-LGBT Laws Rulings and Amendments, Health Care Fairness, Transgender Rights, Alaska
Brasher's Confirmation to the 11th Circuit Threatens Civil Rights for LGBTQ people

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By Sasha Buchert

February 11, 2020

Today, after the U.S. Senate, along party lines, confirmed Andrew Brasher for a lifetime position to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, Sasha Buchert, Senior Attorney at Lambda Legal, issued a statement.

See Also: Fair Courts Project, Washington, D.C.
67 Years Later, Bayard Rustin’s California Arrest and Jail Time Have Been Pardoned

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By Puneet Cheema

February 7, 2020

But discriminatory arrests for consensual sex like his continue today.

See Also: Anti-LGBT Rulings, Laws and Amendments, Criminal Justice, Criminal Justice and Police Misconduct, Racial Justice & Low Income Advocacy, California

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Idaho House Passes Bill Banning Trans People from Correcting Gender on Birth Certificates

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We're Suing South Carolina for Discriminating Against LGBTQ Students

img_0240_copy.jpg

We Call for #JusticeForAlexa

photo-1568515363429-43e5bd1f8b94.jpeg

Supreme Court Needs to Reject Religion as Legal Grounds for Discrimination in Foster Care

blog-lgbt-youth.jpg

Alaska’s Policy Denying Health Care Coverage for Transgender Employees Must End

img_0232.jpg

Brasher's Confirmation to the 11th Circuit Threatens Civil Rights for LGBTQ people

andrew_brasher_circuit-800x458.jpg

67 Years Later, Bayard Rustin’s California Arrest and Jail Time Have Been Pardoned

bayardrustinaug1963-libraryofcongress_crop.jpg

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