Carlie had just returned to Louisiana when she went to the movies with her girlfriend and had trouble sitting down comfortably. It was the spring of 2017 and about two weeks prior Carlie, a 34-year-old trans woman, had undergone a vaginoplasty: a surgery sometimes performed after injuries or...
This year’s Pride Month has been a study in contrasts. The power of our community was never more evident than when health and safety kept us physically apart. We saw genuine milestones of progress and tragic reminders of how much further we have to go. And all June long, across the U.S., we’ve...
When our firm signed on to an amicus brief in Bostock v. Clayton County and two other cases last summer, we were proud to stand alongside 205 major businesses in expressing the importance of workplace protections on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity. Last Monday, the U.S. Supreme...
This week, when the Supreme Court ruled that LGBTQ workers were protected from job discrimination under federal job discrimination laws, it was a moment of celebration for, in some cases, a lifetime of hard work. The LGBTQ ruling was achieved on the broad shoulders of the willing and the...
The U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark ruling this week makes it illegal for most employers to discriminate against gay or transgender workers—to the satisfaction of many of those employers.On Monday, the Supreme Court ruled 6-3 that LGBTQ Americans are protected under the 1964 Civil Rights Act,...
A sweeping 6-3 decision by the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday rules that LGBTQ Americans are protected from job discrimination under existing law. The ruling’s ripple effects could extend to the Trump administration’s efforts to roll back health care protections for transgender Americans under...
A divided U.S. Supreme Court ruled that federal law protects gay and transgender workers from job discrimination in a pair of decisions that give millions of LGBT people new civil rights.Conservative Justice Neil Gorsuch and Chief Justice John Roberts joined the court’s four liberals in a 6-3...
The Trump administration Friday finalized a regulation that overturns Obama-era protections for transgender people against sex discrimination in health care.The policy shift, long-sought by the president’s religious and socially conservative supporters, defines gender as a person’s...