Title VII

“All persons should receive equal treatment under the law, no matter their gender identity or sexual orientation.”

While 2020 certainly doesn’t feel like a year of wins, the LGBTQ community did in fact experience some victories worth celebrating.

The Trump administration has repeatedly singled out transgender people for attack, but one of the most egregious has been blocked by a federal judge at the 11th hour.

The pro-discrimination rule means the Trump administration “demonstrated animus towards transgender persons, continuing a pervasive pattern.”

This man was allegedly fired for being gay four days after the Supreme Court said that’s illegal.

Doctors and EMTs could refuse to help transgender people if they claim it would “compromise their faith.”

As we celebrate this victory, it’s also a chance for us to dream – bigger than we’ve ever dreamed of before – about the world we want to create for generations of LGBTQ people to come.

The state argued they have a right to discriminate against transgender people. A judge said no.

The Department says that the protections aren’t necessary… but that’s not what other Trump administration officials have been saying.

It was a prison rights case, but the judge who authored the decision clearly was aware that it had major implications for employment law.