Feral civil rights law protects gay, lbian and transgenr workers, the Supreme Court led Monday.
Contents:
- EXECUTIVE ORR ON ADVANCG EQUALY FOR LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR, QUEER, AND INTERSEX INDIVIDUALS
- HOE PASS SWEEPG GAY AND TRANSGENR EQUALY LEGISLATN
- PROTECTG THE RIGHTS OF LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR, QUEER, AND INTERSEX (LGBTQI+) PEOPLE
EXECUTIVE ORR ON ADVANCG EQUALY FOR LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR, QUEER, AND INTERSEX INDIVIDUALS
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Our Natn has ma great stris fulfillg the fundamental promis of eedom and equaly for lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, queer, and tersex (LGBTQI+) Amerins, owg to the learship of generatns of LGBTQI+ dividuals. Lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr people Ameri ntue to face discrimatn their daily liv.
A judge also tossed a lawsu agast Florida’s Parental Rights Edutn law — dubbed the “Don’t Say Gay” law by crics, which prohibs “classroom stctn by school personnel or third parti on sexual orientatn or genr inty” krgarten through eighth gra, “or a manner that is not age-appropriate or velopmentally appropriate for stunts acrdance wh state standards. As the Court explaed, “discrimatn based on homosexualy or transgenr stat necsarily entails discrimatn based on sex; the first nnot happen whout the send.
G., beg gay or straight). For s, lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, queer, tersex and other sexual and genr-diverse muni (LGBTQI+) have fought for that same opportuny. Executive Orr 14075 – Advancg Equaly for Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr, Queer, and Intersex Individuals.
HOE PASS SWEEPG GAY AND TRANSGENR EQUALY LEGISLATN
It was the send time the Democratic-led Hoe had passed the measure, known as the Equaly Act, which seeks to amend the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to add explic bans on discrimatn agast lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr people both public and private spac. People n be discrimated agast bee of who they are, or who they love, ” said Reprentative David Cicille, an openly gay Democrat om Rho Island and the lead sponsor. Several Republins assailed the Equaly Act as dangero, leadg one top Democrat, Reprentative Sean Patrick Maloney of New York, to acce them of believg that gay and transgenr people “are morally ferr, and that firg should be permted.
Maloney, the openly gay chairman of Hoe Democrats’ mpaign arm. ”In a landmark cisn June, the Supreme Court led that the 1964 civil rights law protects gay and transgenr people om workplace discrimatn, and that the language of the law, which prohibs discrimatn on the basis of sex, also appli to discrimatn based on sexual orientatn and genr inty. Chamber of Gay Stolberg ntributed reportg.
Gerald Bostock, a child welfare servic ordator, was fired after his employer learned he had joed a gay softball league. Donald Zarda, a skydivg stctor, was fired after his employer learned he was gay.
PROTECTG THE RIGHTS OF LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR, QUEER, AND INTERSEX (LGBTQI+) PEOPLE
Feral civil rights law protects gay, lbian and transgenr workers, the Supreme Court led Monday. “An employer who fir an dividual for beg homosexual or transgenr fir that person for tras or actns would not have qutned members of a different sex. “There is simply no pg the role tent plays here: Jt as sex is necsarily a but-for e when an employer discrimat agast homosexual or transgenr employe, an employer who discrimat on the grounds pably tends to rely on sex s cisnmakg, ” the opn read.
“Today’s cisn is one of the urt’s most signifint lgs ever wh rpect to the civil rights of gay and transgenr dividuals, ” said Steve Vlack, CNN Supreme Court analyst and profsor at the Universy of Texas School of Law.
1 ln lbian, gay and bisexual workers, acrdg to UCLA’s Williams Instute. He acknowledged that when the law was passed, Congrs may not have been thkg of gay, lbian and transgenr rights.