Federal government to remove gender dysphoria from protected disabilities list
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services will remove gender dysphoria from disabilities protected under federal law.
April 16, 2025
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Gays included in new federal pension law
President Bush signed the federal Pension Protection Act on Thursday, writing into law two key provisions that extend important financial protections to same-sex couples
August 18, 2006
Federal Judge Blocks Arkansas Law Targeting Books & Librarians
Again the judiciary stands in the way of GOP attempts to erase LGBTQ+ people.
August 1, 2023
Companies Say Federal Law Already Bans Antigay Discrimination
A group of corporations and organizations urged a federal appeals court to interpret Title VII of the Civil Rights Act in this way.
June 27, 2017
Appeals Court: Federal Law Doesn't Ban Antigay Discrimination
A court rules that discrimination against lesbian security guard Jameka Evans doesn't violate existing law.
March 14, 2017
New Hampshire classroom censorship law is unconstitutional, federal judge rules
The vague law, aimed at discouraging the teaching of issues around race, sex, LGBTQ+ identity, and more, is an impediment to education, according to the judge.
May 29, 2024
Justice Department Says Federal Law Doesn't Ban Antigay Discrimination
The department, led by Jeff Sessions, made that argument in a case involving whether a law banning sex discrimination covers sexual orientation.
July 26, 2017
Appeals Court Says Federal Law Bans Anti-LGB Discrimination
Title VII of the Civil Rights Act does cover sexual orientation discrimination, the Seventh Circuit rules, making it the highest court to arrive at this determination.
April 4, 2017
Mississippi's Anti-LGBT Law Gets Its Own Federal Suit
Mississippi’s House Bill 1523 violates the promise of equal protection outlined in the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, says the same-sex couple who filed a suit to stop the law’s implementation.
May 9, 2016
DOJ: North Carolina's HB 2 Is Illegal Under Federal Law
The department is calling on Gov. Pat McCrory and other state officials to cease enforcing the anti-LGBT law.
May 4, 2016
Texas Governor: Let States Override Supreme Court, Federal Laws
Gov. Greg Abbott's plan for amending the U.S. Constitution to give states this power would be a way of getting around the marriage equality ruling.
January 9, 2016
Federal court permanently blocks Florida's law against trans health care
The state had banned the care for minors and restricted it for adults.
June 11, 2024
ACLU Calls for Federal Probe of Anti-LGBTQ+ Actions in Texas Schools
These actions violated federal antidiscrimination law, the ACLU of Texas says.
August 10, 2023
Marriage Equality Is Now Federal Law After President Biden Signs Act
The legislation will keep marriage equality the law of the land no matter what the Supreme Court does.
December 13, 2022
Obama To Alabama Judges: Federal Law Will Be Obeyed
'I think that the courts at the federal level will have something to say' to Alabama's antigay Chief Justice Roy Moore, says President Obama.
February 11, 2015
D.C. bar owners say Trump’s federal law enforcement crackdown is killing their business
“This is not sustainable,” Dave Perruzza, a gay business owner in D.C., told The Advocate.
August 16, 2025
President Joe Biden signs into law first federal anti-LGBTQ+ bill in decades
The National Defense Authorization Act has a provision barring the military's insurance from covering gender-affirming care for service members' children.
December 24, 2024
Denying gender-affirming care coverage violates federal law, says appeals court
The 11th Circuit made the ruling in the case of Houston County, Ga., sheriff's deputy Anna Lange.
May 14, 2024
Without a Federal Law, LGBT Rights Will Be Chipped Away Like Roe v. Wade
We absolutely need a nationwide solution to LGBT discrimination, writes Matt Foreman.
June 26, 2018
Why we need a federal hate-crimes law—and why we can get it
This year marks our best chance yet to get a federal hate-crimes law passed and signed into law. It would give the government the power to prosecute anti-LGBT crimes and law enforcement the resources to investigate them properly. So let's make sure it happens.
March 6, 2007
Iowa's LGBTQ+ Books Ban and 'Don't Say Gay' Law Partially Blocked by Federal Judge
The judge called the ban “incredibly broad” and noted the law has already resulted in the removal of hundreds of books from Iowa libraries.
December 30, 2023