Today, Lambda Legal and Steptoe & Johnson LLP filed a lawsuit challenging the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) recently published health care discrimination rule that purports to carve out LGBTQ people and other vulnerable populations from the protections of Section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act, which prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex, among other bases.
Uganda: High Court rules in favor of 19 arrested LGBT youth
US: Supreme Court LGBT Ruling Leaves Out 1 in 6 American Workers
US Supreme Court ruling ‘extremely positive’ for LGBT community, says UN Rights Expert
Mauritius: LGBT community obtains authorization for constitutional complaint
Russia: St. Petersburg City Court sided with a transgender woman
The St. Petersburg City Court has ruled in favor of a transgender woman, Anastasia Vasilyeva, who was fired from her job at a printing press after she changed the gender marker in her official identification documents. Vasilyeva’s former employer must now pay her more than 1.85 million rubles (approximately $26,500) in damages, reports the LGBTQ rights group “Vykhod” (Exit).
US: In Historic Win With Shock Majority, Supreme Court Rules It’s Illegal to Fire Employees for Being Gay or Trans
There is no question that Congress did not have gay or trans people in mind when the law was passed. So from an ideological point of view, the case presented a conflict between two conservative judicial philosophies: textualism (what the words on the page actually say) and originalism (what the writers of the law meant).
US: Federal employment discrimination law protects gay and transgender employees
eSwatini: Government to face LGBTI activists in court
Chile: Attilio will have two mothers
Chile: Fundación Iguales achieves for the first time the legal recognition of two lesbian mothers
For the first time in Chile, a court declares that a family made up of two women who participated in an assisted reproduction technique must be legally recognized as mothers of their child. With this, the child has the recognition and protection of the same rights that children born in heterosexual families enjoy.
Panorama of the legal recognition of gender identity in the Americas
The American continent is characterized by being the most violent region towards people with Non-normative gender identities in the world. These cycles of violence, present in all areas of life of trans people, are intermingled with high levels of discrimination and stigmatization, resulting in lack of access to their civil, political, economic, social rights, cultural and environmental.