Press Releases
about LGBTQ Rights
Oct 05, 2017
ACLU Statement on DOJ Rescinding Title VII Protections for Transgender Workers
WASHINGTON — Attorney General Jeff Sessions reversed a federal government policy yesterday that clarified that transgender people are protected from sex discrimination in the wor...
Issue Areas:
LGBTQ Rights
Oct 03, 2017
D.C. Police Settle ACLU-DC Lawsuit Challenging Arrest of Trans Activist
WASHINGTON – The American Civil Liberties Union of the District of Columbia announced today that the District of Columbia has agreed to settle a civil rights lawsuit on behalf of...
Issue Areas:
LGBTQ Rights
Sep 20, 2017
ACLU Challenges Discriminatory Practices in Michigan’s Foster Care System
DETROIT — The American Civil Liberties Union and ACLU of Michigan today filed a lawsuit in federal district court challenging Michigan’s practice of permitting state-contracted...
Issue Areas:
LGBTQ Rights
Sep 15, 2017
ACLU Comment on Legislation to Protect Transgender Service Members
WASHINGTON — The Senate introduced a bipartisan bill today that would protect transgender service members by preventing the Department of Defense from removing currently-serving ...
Issue Areas:
LGBTQ Rights
Sep 14, 2017
ACLU Seeks Immediate Halt to Trump’s Transgender Service Member Ban
BALTIMORE — The American Civil Liberties Union and the law firm Covington & Burling LLP today asked a judge to immediately halt to the Trump administration’s ban on transge...
Issue Areas:
LGBTQ Rights
Court case: Stone v. Trump
Sep 12, 2017
ACLU Mourns Edie Windsor
NEW YORK — Edith Windsor, whose landmark Supreme Court case struck down the Defense of Marriage Act in 2013 and granted same-sex married couples federal recognition for the first...
Issue Areas:
LGBTQ Rights
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