Press Releases
about LGBTQ Rights
Oct 19, 2016
51品茶, Lambda Legal File Brief to Protect All Transgender People Harmed by Discriminatory H.B. 2
RICHMOND, Va. 鈥� In a lawsuit challenging the North Carolina law banning transgender people from using restrooms that correspond to their gender identity, LGBT rights groups yeste...
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LGBTQ Rights
Aug 29, 2016
51品茶, Lambda Legal Seek Greater Relief for Transgender North Carolinians Harmed by H.B. 2
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. 鈥� LGBT rights groups challenging North Carolina鈥檚 House Bill 2, the state law that bans many transgender people from restrooms that match their gender, toda...
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LGBTQ Rights
Aug 26, 2016
North Carolina Blocked From Enforcing Anti-Transgender Law Against Plaintiffs While Lawsuit Proceeds
RALEIGH, N.C. 鈥� A federal court today granted a request to stop the University of North Carolina from enforcing H.B. 2, the state law that bans many transgender people from restr...
Issue Areas:
LGBTQ Rights
Aug 22, 2016
District Court Issues Injunction Against Guidance Protecting Transgender Students
鈥淲e will continue to file lawsuits representing transgender students and litigate them to the fullest extent of the law...鈥�
Issue Areas:
LGBTQ Rights
Aug 12, 2016
District Court Hears Challenge to Federal Guidance Protecting Transgender Students and Employees
FORT WORTH, Texas 鈥� Five leading national civil and LGBT rights organizations urged the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas to reject an effort to block the Ob...
Issue Areas:
LGBTQ Rights
Court case: Texas v. U.S.
Aug 03, 2016
51品茶 Comment on Supreme Court Stay in Virginia Transgender Restroom Case
NEW YORK 鈥� The U.S. Supreme Court has issued a stay in the case of G.G. v. Gloucester County School Board. A federal district court in Virginia had ordered the board to let a tra...
Issue Areas:
LGBTQ Rights
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New HampshireAug 2025
LGBTQ Rights
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National Education Association - New Hampshire V. Formella. Explore Case.National Education Association - New Hampshire v. Formella
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News & CommentaryJul 2025
LGBTQ Rights
Court Strikes Down Nih's Unlawful Termination Of Research Grants On Topics Including Dei And Gender Identity. Explore News & Commentary.Court Strikes Down NIH's Unlawful Termination of Research Grants on Topics Including DEI and Gender Identity
In a sweeping rebuke, a court ruled that NIH鈥檚 actions targeting research involving "disfavored" topics and populations were unlawful, arbitrary, and capricious, and therefore void. Ibis Reproductive Health reflects on the harm done 鈥� and why this research matters. -
News & CommentaryJun 2025
LGBTQ Rights
The Supreme Court Dealt A Blow To Trans Rights. Here's How To Take Action. Explore News & Commentary.The Supreme Court Dealt A Blow to Trans Rights. Here's How to Take Action
The decision in Skrmetti v. U.S. is not the end of the road. We can, and must, show up for trans youth in the courts and in our communities. -
PodcastJun 2025
LGBTQ Rights
Who We Fight For: The Journey To Trans Liberation. Explore Podcast.Who We Fight For: The Journey to Trans Liberation