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Lambda Legal Responds to Tree of Life Massacre, Week of White Supremacist Violence

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By Lambda Legal

October 29, 2018

See Also: Racism, New York
Trump Administration Effort to Erase Transgender Americans Will Not Stand

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By Diana Flynn

October 22, 2018

Yesterday, transgender Americans received confirmation of what we had long suspected – namely, the Trump-Pence administration was literally trying to write them out of the law by defining them out of existence.
Lambda Legal Chief Strategy Officer Sharon McGowan to Receive American Bar Association Stonewall Award

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By Lambda Legal

October 19, 2018

We are very proud of Sharon for this well-deserved honor. She has truly distinguished herself as an outstanding legal advocate for the LGBT community.
Civil Rights Organizations Oppose Anti-LGBT Fourth Circuit Court Nominee Allison Rushing

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By Sharon McGowan

October 16, 2018

Rushing has expressed a deep hostility to the principles of equality, liberty, justice and dignity under the law for LGBT Americans.

See Also: Fair Courts Project
In Honor Of Our 45th Birthday: Announcing The Daniel H. Renberg Legal Fellowship

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By Lambda Legal

October 16, 2018

Lambda Legal today announced the establishment of the Daniel H. Renberg Legal Fellowship endowed through a $1 million gift by Eugene Kapaloski in honor of his deceased husband and in celebration of the civil rights organization’s 45th anniversary.
New National Coalition Launches Campaign For Sexual Health Rights Of Youth In State Custody

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By Lambda Legal

October 15, 2018

In October 2017, leading organizations working on juvenile justice, adolescent sexual health policy, mass incarceration, and LGBTQ rights, came together with a shared purpose: to remedy the near-total absence of health care that addresses sexual development and the risks of infectious disease for youth in foster care and juvenile detention centers.
Lambda Legal Sues Kansas Over Discriminatory Anti-Transgender Policy: “Kansas is out of step with the rest of America.”

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By Lambda Legal

October 15, 2018

“By not allowing transgender people like me to correct our birth certificates, the state complicates every aspect of our lives”

See Also: Birth Certificates, Transgender Rights, Kansas