The Rights of Lbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgenr People | Amerin Civil Liberti Unn

Contents:

• AMERI MOVED ON FROM ITS GAY-RIGHTS MOMENT—AND LEFT A LEGAL MS BEHD
• THE RIGHTS OF LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL AND TRANSGENR PEOPLE

AMERI MOVED ON FROM ITS GAY-RIGHTS MOMENT—AND LEFT A LEGAL MS BEHD

Although the legalizatn of same-sex marriage has provid many rights and protectns to same-sex married upl that did not exist prevly, there are still many rights and protectns that are enjoyed by heterosexual married upl which are not currently provid for homosexual married upl.

Ameri Moved On From Its Gay-Rights Moment—And Left a Legal Ms BehdHalf a after the Supreme Court’s same-sex-marriage cisn, the jtic and Congrs are still tryg to figure out what feral law should say about LGBTQ JonRoughly half of Amerins thk feral law bans discrimatn on the basis of sexual orientatn. But they’ve faced ristance om their right, wh proment pastors and nservative legal groups opposed to any kd of bill that would mark sexual orientatn and genr inty as special legal Ameri has largely moved on om s gay-rights moment, wh many Amerins believg everythg got taken re of wh same-sex marriage, legal advot on both sis have been left wh bter disagreements about where the untry should go next—and the possibily that the stat quo will perpetually rema place.

Ask LGBTQ people themselv, however, and they nsistently see discrimatn their daily liv: A recent study om the Williams Instute at UCLA found that lbian, gay, and bisexual people reported much higher rat of beg bullied, fired, or nied a job, promotn, or lease pared wh heterosexual people. ”Early legislatn proposg civil-rights protectns for gays and lbians was often hedged: Advot foced on issu such as workplace discrimatn, where they thought they had a greater chance of victory.

THE RIGHTS OF LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL AND TRANSGENR PEOPLE

In the past 30 years, the Supreme Court has led sex stereotypg illegal; clared sodomy bans unnstutnal; stck down state measur blockg civil-rights protectns for gays, lbians, and bisexuals; and, of urse, legalized same-sex marriage all 50 stat. But even as the evabily of legalized gay marriage was beg clear the early 2010s, “the narrative really began to take hold that you uld be married on Sunday and fired on Monday and lose your hog on Tuday, ” Sarah McBri, the natnal prs secretary at the Human Rights Campaign, a proment LGBTQ-rights advocy group, told me.

”Read: How gay marriage beme a nstutnal rightThis qutn has been particularly ght for transgenr people, such as the platiff who will go before the Supreme Court this fall.

Before the Supreme Court legalized gay marriage, “people uld see very clearly the fact that same-sex upl uldn’t get married, ” McBri said. The Equaly Act specifilly bars any group om g the Relig Freedom Rtoratn Act, known as RFRA, to try to opt out of the bill’s relig groups and stutns that teach that homosexualy is a s, and that men and women were created as such by God, the prospect of this kd of legislatn is worryg.