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LGBTQ Rights

The ACLU has a long history of defending the LGBTQ community. We brought our first LGBTQ rights case in Founded in , the Jon L. Stryker and Slobodan Randjelović LGBTQ & HIV Undertaking brings more LGBTQ rights cases and advocacy initiatives than any other national organization does and has been counsel in seven of the nine LGBTQ rights cases that the U.S. Supreme Court has decided. With our attain into the courts and legislatures of every state, there is no other organization that can match our write down of making progress both in the courts of rule and in the court of general opinion.

The ACLU’s current priorities are to end discrimination, harassment and violence toward transgender people, to close gaps in our federal and state civil rights laws, to stop protections against discrimination from being undermined by a license to discriminate, and to protect LGBTQ people in and from the criminal legal system.

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Trans* Issues

  • Louisiana Gender non-conforming Advocates
    Louisiana Transsexual Advocates strengthens and supports transgender and allied communities across the state through social support, education, empowerment, and advocacy in organize to promote self-determination of gender identity and gender expression for everyone.
  • Transgender Visibility Guide, HRC
    For those people whose gender identity or innate sense of their own gender doesn’t fit with that assigned to them at birth, unraveling and expressing it can be complex and difficult.
    This guide was designed to help you and your loved ones through that process in realistic and practical terms. It acknowledges that the experience of coming out or disclosure covers the full spectrum of human emotion – from paralyzing fear to unbounded euphoria. The Human Rights Campaign Foundation hopes this guide helps you meet the challenges and opportunities that living as authentically as possible can offer to each of us.
  • IMPACT, LGBT Health and Development Program
    Transgender On this page, we’ve centralized IMPACT’s wo

    LGBTQ People’s Experiences of Workplace Discrimination and Harassment

    Executive Summary

    Over 8 million workers in the U.S. recognize as ment discrimination and harassment based on sexual orientation and gender identity have been widely research has found that LGBTQ people continue to face mistreatment in the workplace,even after the U.S. Supreme Court held in that discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity is prohibited by Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of Experiences of workplace discrimination and harassment negatively impact employees’ health and well-being, as well as their job commitment, satisfaction, and productivity. These primary effects can, in turn, result in higher costs and other negative outcomes for employers.

    This report examines experiences of discrimination and harassment against LGBTQ employees using a survey of 1, LGBTQ adults in the workforce conducted in the summer of It is based on a similar study published by the Williams Institute in This report examines the lifetime, five-year, and past-year workplace experiences of LGBTQ employee

    Messaging Guides

    The Talking About LGBTQ Issues series is a set of research-based resources designed to help shape discussions with conflicted or undecided Americans—and help them better comprehend key issues of importance to lesbian, gay, attracted to both genders, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) people.

    In conversations about marriage, employment protections and non-discrimination laws, adoption and parenting, military service or despise crimes, it can often be easy to tumble back on abstract jargon or angry rhetoric that can derail discussions with those who are not familiar with the issues. These guides offer ways that LGBTQ organizations, collective members and allies alike can build common land with moveable audiences, display them how their efforts (or inaction) can injure gay and transgender people, and help them realize issues of LGBTQ equality through the lenses of their own values and beliefs.

    Equality for LGBTQ people is really about basic human values and needs: the ability of everyday Americans to pursue health and happiness, earn a living, be safe in their communities, serve