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Transgender Parents
Since its start, NCLR has worked to ensure that LGBT parents have the legal protections they need.
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NCLR is committed to establishing legal protections that ensure transgender youth can live freely.
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Transgender Law
Adree Edmo v. Idaho Department of Correction, et al.
STATUS: Preliminary injunction granted | Idaho
NCLR, along with co-counsel Hadsell Stormer & Renick LLP and Ferguson Durham, PLLC, represents Adree Edmo, a Native American transgender woman in the custody of the Idaho Department of Correction (IDOC). After a three-day evidentiary hearing on Ms. Edmo’s motion for a preliminary injunction, Judge B. Lynn Winmill issued an order requiring IDOC and IDOC’s…
Transgender Law
Case: Carcano v. McCrory
STATUS: Pending | North Carolina
On October 25, 2016, NCLR filed an amicus brief in Carcano v. McCrory arguing that laws that single out transgender people for discrimination must be subjected to strict constitutional scrutiny and that North Carolina’s House Bill 2 (HB 2) fails that test. The brief also argues that North Carolina’s true purpose in passing HB 2 was…
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Legislation: California Senate Bill 731
California
On October 11, 2015, California Governor Jerry Brown signed a landmark bill that protects transgender children in the foster care system. Authored by Senator Mark Leno, Senate Bill 731 gives critical guidance to child welfare workers regarding the placement of transgender youth in out-of-home care. The bill, co-authored by Senator Jim Beall, amends the Foster…
Transgender Law
Policy: Medicare
NCLR, along with the ACLU national, Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders (GLAD), and a New Mexico civil rights attorney, filed a challenge in March 2013 to Medicare’s ban on medically necessary healthcare for transgender patients. Since the early 1980s, Medicare, which provides healthcare to Americans ages 65 and older and younger people with certain…
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June 5, 2019
NCLR and GLAD Respond to President Trump’s Statements about the Transgender Military Ban