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VICTORY: South Carolina Court Strikes Outdated Anti-LGBTQ Curriculum Law as Unconstitutional

CHARLESTON, SC – Today, the U.S. District Court for the District of South Carolina entered a consent decree that declares South Carolina’s 1988 discriminatory anti-LGBTQ curriculum law unconstitutional and bars its enforcement. The court’s decree comes two weeks after a federal lawsuit was filed on behalf of the high school student organization Gender and Sexuality Alliance, as well as the Campaign for Southern Equality and South Carolina Equality Coalition, including their members who are public school students in South Carolina.

Anti-LGBT Rulings, Laws and Amendments,
Youth and Schools

Victory! North Carolina’s Transgender Employees and Family Members to Have Their Day in Court

“Today we are one step closer to justice and ensuring that North Carolina stops depriving transgender employees and family members access to essential health care services.”

Anti-LGBT Rulings, Laws and Amendments,
Health Care Fairness,
Transgender Rights

Victory! New York State Changes Policy to Allow Transgender Minors to Correct Birth Certificates After Lambda Legal Lawsuit

Today, New York State announced it is changing its policy prohibiting transgender minors from correcting the sex marker on their birth certificates, in a manner consistent with their gender identity. This announcement comes after Lambda Legal filed a lawsuit against the state last month on behalf of a transgender boy born in Ithaca, New York.

Anti-LGBT Rulings, Laws and Amendments,
Teens & Young Adults,
Transgender Rights

Lambda Legal to Court: Don’t Allow Social Security to Compound the Grief of Surviving Same-Sex Spouses

(Tucson, AZ, March 6, 2020) – Lambda Legal today asked a federal court to end the U.S. Social Security Administration’s (SSA) refusal to provide monthly spousal survivor’s benefits to a 66-year-old gay man whose husband and partner of 43 years died six months after Arizona began allowing same-sex couples to marry.

Seniors

VICTORY! Court Rules Alaska’s Denial of Health Care to Transgender Employee is Unlawful Discrimination

A federal district court today ruled in favor of Lambda Legal client Jennifer Fletcher and ordered that the State of Alaska’s denial of health care coverage to a legislative librarian based on its blanket exclusion of medically necessary transition-related surgical treatment from AlaskaCare, the state employee health care plan, is unlawful sex discrimination that violates federal law.

Anti-LGBT Rulings, Laws and Amendments,
Health Care Fairness,
Transgender Rights

Lambda Legal to Puerto Rico: Amendments to Civil Code Violate Court Order and the Constitution

Today, Lambda Legal warned Puerto Rico Governor Wanda Vázquez Garced that the proposed new Civil Code for the Commonwealth, which is now before the Puerto Rico Senate, is in clear contempt of a 2018 federal court order that declared unconstitutional the island’s policy prohibiting transgender Puerto Ricans from correcting their birth certificates and could expose the Puerto Rican government to sanctions and penalties.

Transgender Rights

Lambda Legal a Puerto Rico: Enmiendas al Código Civil Violan Orden Judicial y la Constitución

Hoy, Lambda Legal advirtió a la gobernadora de Puerto Rico, Wanda Vázquez Garced, que el nuevo Código Civil propuesto para la isla, que se encuentra ante el Senado de Puerto Rico, estaría en claro desacato de una orden judicial federal de 2018 que declaró inconstitucional la política de la isla que prohíbe a los puertorriqueños transgénero corregir sus certificados de nacimiento y podría exponer al gobierno puertorriqueño a sanciones y penalidades.

Transgender Rights

Lambda Legal to Idaho Legislators: Laws Found to be Discriminatory Two Years Ago Remain Discriminatory Today

(Boise, ID, 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.

Transgender Rights

Lambda Legal Mourns Killing of Transgender Woman in Puerto Rico, Calls for Hate Crimes Investigation

(New York, NY -- February 25, 2020)- After news of Neulisa "Alexa" Luciano Ruiz's murder in a possible hate crime in Puerto Rico, Omar Gonzalez-Pagan, Senior Attorney at Lambda Legal issued the following statement:

Transgender Rights

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