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Transgender Military Ban Plaintiffs Argue in DC Circuit Court of Appeals Today to Keep Preliminary Injunction

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE December 10, 2018 Contacts: Lauren Gray, NCLR lgray@nclrights.org / (215) 983-3099 Amanda Johnston, GLAD ajohnston@glad.org / (617) 417-7769 Transgender Military Ban Plaintiffs Argue in DC Circuit Court of Appeals Today to Keep Preliminary Injunction Washington, DC—The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit heard oral...

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NCLR Files Brief Highlighting Stories of LGBTQ Asylum Seekers

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE December 7, 2018 Contacts: Lauren Gray, NCLR lgray@nclrights.org / (215) 983-3099 NCLR Files Brief Highlighting the Stories of LGBTQ Asylum Seekers in East Bay Sanctuary Covenant v. Trump The Trump administration is putting lives at risk and is effectively shutting the door on thousands of qualifying individuals SAN FRANCISCO—The National Center for Lesbian Rights (NCLR)...

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Trump Asks Supreme Court to Intervene Now and Allow Implementation of His Trans Military Ban

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE November 23, 2018 Contacts: Lauren Gray, NCLR lgray@nclrights.org / (215) 983-3099 Amanda Johnston, GLAD ajohnston@glad.org / (617) 417-7769 Samuel Garrett-Pate, Equality...

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Trump’s Asylum Plan Will Endanger LGBTQ Lives

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE November 9, 2018 Contacts: Lauren Gray, NCLR lgray@nclrights.org / (215) 983-3099   Trump’s Plan to Cut Off Access to Asylum is Illegal and Will Endanger LGBTQ Lives Washington, D.C.—Yesterday, the Trump administration announced its intention to adopt a new federal rule preventing certain individuals who enter the U.S. from Mexico from seeking asylum. For more than 20 years, NCLR has provided...

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7 Years After Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell: NCLR and GLAD Joint Statement

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE September 20, 2018 Contacts: Lauren Gray, NCLR lgray@nclrights.org / (215) 983-3099 Amanda Johnston, GLAD ajohnston@glad.org / (617) 417-7769 NCLR and GLAD, the LGBTQ Legal Organizations Leading the Fight to Stop the Trump-Pence Trans Military Ban, Joint Statement on 7 Years Since the End...

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Judge Orders Government to Produce Documents Related to Development of Trans Military Ban Implementation Plan 

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE August 24, 2018 Contacts:  Amanda Johnston, GLAD ajohnston@glad.org / (617) 417-7769   Judge Orders Government to Produce Documents Related to Development of Trans Military Ban Implementation Plan Washington, D.C.—Federal District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly today issued a ruling ordering the Trump administration to disclose information about its decision to ban otherwise qualified transgender...

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NCLR, GLAD on Trump’s Trans Military Ban One Year Later

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE July 26, 2018 Contacts: Lauren Gray, NCLR lgray@nclrights.org / (215) 983-3099 Amanda Johnston, GLAD ajohnston@glad.org / (617) 417-7769 NCLR and GLAD Statement on the Transgender Military Ban, a Year After Trump’s Tweets “One of our plaintiffs, Jane Doe 3, served in both Iraq and Afghanistan and said she was having breakfast after...

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NCLR, GLAD File Motion to Permanently Stop Trump-Pence Trans Military Ban

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 12, 2018 Contacts: Lauren Gray, NCLR lgray@nclrights.org / (215) 983-3099 Amanda Johnston, GLAD ajohnston@glad.org / (617) 417-7769 New Trans Military Ban Filing from NCLR, GLAD Would Accelerate Final Court Ruling to Permanently Stop the Trump-Pence Ban GLAD says, “The government’s own documents, newly obtained by discovery, show...

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NCLR, GLAD Respond to Trump’s Trans Military Ban Plan

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 23, 2018 Contacts:  Lauren Gray, NCLR lgray@nclrights.org / (215) 983-3099 Amanda Johnston, GLAD ajohnston@glad.org / (617) 417-7769 Trump Announces Plan for Implementing His Transgender Military Ban Today’s announcement has no immediate impact, as four federal courts have already prohibited the ban from taking effect, say...

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D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals Denies Trump Attempt to Delay Trans Enlistment

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contacts:  Lauren Gray, NCLR lgray@nclrights.org / (215) 983-3099 Amanda Johnston, GLAD ajohnston@glad.org / (617) 417-7769 D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals Court Denies Trump Administration Request to Delay January 1 Transgender Enlistment Date    (Washington, D.C., December 22, 2017)—The D.C. Circuit...

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