It is the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act, not the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Privacy Act.
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Nondiscrimination regulations: The Labor Department is proposing updates to existing nondiscrimination and equal opportunity regulations under the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act.
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Nondiscrimination regulations: The Labor Department is proposing updates to existing nondiscrimination and equal opportunity regulations under the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act.
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Health and genetic information is protected under federal nondiscrimination and genetic privacy laws such as the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act and the Americans with Disabilities Act.
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Potier directs the French government's nondiscrimination agency known as DILCRAH.
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A similar reinterpretation also cleared away nondiscrimination rules for housing.
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The Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act has helped preserve my health.
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Instead, Rauch argues for nondiscrimination law that broadly accommodates religion.
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North Carolina has no statewide nondiscrimination protection laws for LGBTQ people.
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The bill, as written, prevents local governments from passing nondiscrimination ordinances.
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As Oregon's labor commissioner, I've been tasked with enforcing nondiscrimination laws.
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The law also restricts cities from passing nondiscrimination laws more broadly.
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In New Hampshire, critics of the nondiscrimination bill made similar arguments.
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HB2 was born after Charlotte passed its "nondiscrimination ordinance" in February 2016.
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The federal government and U.S. military's nondiscrimination policies now cover sexual orientation.
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He has promised to overturn nondiscrimination protections for LGBTQ people in schools.
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Do they have official nondiscrimination policies in place that include gender identity?
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In Massachusetts, voters upheld nondiscrimination protections for transgender people in public spaces.
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And one of those issues to me will be statewide nondiscrimination protections.
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Unlike HB23, McGrady's bill had a referendum provision for local nondiscrimination ordinances.
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Despite PolitiFact's reporting, the attack happened before the nondiscrimination law was passed.
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Currently, 29 states lack fully inclusive nondiscrimination laws at the statewide level.
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Those provisions appear to violate nondiscrimination requirements of tax and trade agreements.
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When "sex" becomes "gender identity" in nondiscrimination law, three things will happen.
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At the same time, Americans strongly support nondiscrimination laws for LGBTQ people.
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If ensuring nondiscrimination guts the bill, then the bill is truly about discrimination.
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There, legislators supposedly fixed the bill to ensure that nondiscrimination ordinances were protected.
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It's good that Trump has kept Obama's nondiscrimination order in place (for now).
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B.220006 side would like a statewide nondiscrimination rule, with no local variation.
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"The proposed amendments to EPA's nondiscrimination regulation are just that — proposed," he said.
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Our nondiscrimination laws exist in large part to protect people against moral beliefs.
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Economic freedom rests on the empowerment of the individual, nondiscrimination, and open competition.
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And businesses aren't the only ones who consider nondiscrimination protections a no-brainer.
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That reauthorization included nondiscrimination protections for victims seeking help from grant-funded organizations.
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He intends to preserve an executive order maintaining L.G.B.T. nondiscrimination in federal contracting.
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That has caught the attention of advocates for nondiscrimination laws protecting LGBT citizens.
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"I have no remorse over supporting it," he said of the nondiscrimination bill.
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If the Court determines that nondiscrimination laws require creative professionals not simply to serve all people (which Jack does), but also to express messages that violate their conscience, then it will have allowed state nondiscrimination laws to subjugate First Amendment rights.
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Last week, Congress heard testimony on a bill called the "Prenatal Nondiscrimination Act" (PRENDA).
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The law still bars local municipalities from enacting their own nondiscrimination ordinances before 2020.
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And that is exactly what happens with the local referendum on the [nondiscrimination ordinances].
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There are 19 states that have gender identity nondiscrimination provisions in their state laws.
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This coincides with other surveys that find support for nondiscrimination protections for LGBTQ people.
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Bipartisan support for an LGBTQ nondiscrimination bill was also evident in last week's vote.
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The city was entitled to require compliance with its nondiscrimination policies, the count said.
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All of us can summon this courage now and make nondiscrimination a top priority.
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Most Fortune 500 companies include sexual orientation and gender identity in their nondiscrimination policies.
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Angelo did, however, acknowledge Ryan's personal support for nondiscrimination legislation and Log Cabin Republicans.
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So for now, states have passed their own explicit nondiscrimination protections shielding LGBTQ people.
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This is, really, a basic explanation of how nondiscrimination laws work for public accommodations.
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In Houston, early polls showed that either pluralities or majorities supported the nondiscrimination law.
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A draft rule released Friday would undo nondiscrimination protections established under the Affordable Care Act.
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This guiding principle of nondiscrimination meant you were in control of the connections you made.
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Key swaths are verbatim mirrors of ADF's model for a so-called government nondiscrimination act.
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Current nondiscrimination proposals embody our nation's core identity -- the land of opportunity and equal treatment.
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Underlying this entire issue is a big myth about trans people, nondiscrimination laws, and bathrooms.
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That does not mean undercutting nondiscrimination laws in most cases of commercial goods and services.
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But it also offers a reminder of how flimsy nondiscrimination laws are for LGBTQ people.
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It says that the company's commitment to nondiscrimination rests on two principles: inclusion and respect.
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In 2009, the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act outlawed discrimination on the basis of genetic information.
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We must fight to ensure nondiscrimination and openness across the internet, from end-to-end.
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"They should focus on the full equality and nondiscrimination of transgender persons," Ms. Carroll said.
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For more on the battle over trans rights, nondiscrimination laws, and bathrooms, read Vox's explainer.
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Uber, for example, includes sexual orientation, gender identity and marital status in its nondiscrimination policy.
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There are 200-plus cities that have gender identity nondiscrimination provisions in their city laws.
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Companies gain points for having nondiscrimination policies and benefits for L.G.B.T. workers, among other metrics.
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As a federal contractor, Google must comply with the US government's nondiscrimination and affirmative action statutes.
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Besides, with the state law still on the books, it would trump Charlotte's nondiscrimination ordinance anyway.
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In 2014, President Obama signed an executive order outlining explicit nondiscrimination protections for LGBTQ federal employees.
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It found no rise in sexual harassment or abuse as a result of passing nondiscrimination laws.
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Stutzman appealed, marking the first time the nondiscrimination law reached the state Supreme Court in Olympia.
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First, the FTC doesn't have the authority to effectively enforce nondiscrimination rules for broadband and ISPs.
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Unlike the intersex section, the transgender section stresses the importance of human rights, nondiscrimination and inclusion.
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A few states like New Hampshire and Massachusetts were early to adopt nondiscrimination protections decades ago.
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That would go against an international convention on nondiscrimination, which took effect nearly 50 years ago.
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Travelers have experienced discrimination by Airbnb hosts, leading the company to create a new nondiscrimination policy.
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Instead, the concern was that people would use the state's RFRA to bypass local nondiscrimination laws.
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Nondiscrimination (or public accommodation) laws were never intended to compel expression in violation of one's conscience.
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If the Pulse shooting has similar effects, nondiscrimination laws could be a good place to start.
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But the attacks happened months before Ontario (Toronto's province) protected trans people in a nondiscrimination law.
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That's because Kentucky, like most states, already fails to protect LGBTQ people in its nondiscrimination laws.
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Those on Craig and Mullins's side claimed that Phillips's claims seriously misunderstand how nondiscrimination laws work.
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Those on Craig and Mullins's side argue that Phillips's claims seriously misunderstand how nondiscrimination laws work.
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For example, it is attempting to revise the nondiscrimination protections found in the Affordable Care Act, i.e.
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There are no such cases of this happening in U.S. jurisdictions with nondiscrimination laws for LGBTQ people.
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The movement's top groups spent millions of dollars in the blue metropolis to defend a nondiscrimination ordinance.
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What we're trying to explain to people is that they don't have a relationship to nondiscrimination laws.
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The Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act, or GINA, was a unicorn in the divided climate of US politics.
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This act would preempt laws like those in Atlanta that provide nondiscrimination protections for the LGBT persons.
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The Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act, or GINA, was a unicorn in the divided climate of US politics.
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Requiring companies to abide by nondiscrimination laws does not require business owners to abandon their religious beliefs.
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"Most American companies long ago included sexual orientation and gender identity in their nondiscrimination polices," Rometty wrote.
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"Most American companies long ago included sexual orientation and gender identity in their nondiscrimination polices," Rometty wrote.
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" Now, "sex" in that nondiscrimination clause is defined as "the physical condition of being male or female.
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The group touted Clinton's record of fighting for LGBT rights, from marriage equality to employment nondiscrimination laws.
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On Wednesday, members of the U.S. House of Representatives reintroduced legislation to rewrite federal nondiscrimination law. How?
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It also reaffirms the right of local governments and private businesses to implement their own nondiscrimination policies.
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Successful businesses have recognized that nondiscrimination policies help them attract a competitive workforce and increase employee productivity.
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And the super-conservative Utah passed a nondiscrimination law protecting LGBTQ people in the workplace and housing.
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It does seem to let nondiscrimination laws passed by local governments before HB2 kick back into effect.
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Voters also re-elected Mayor Ethan Berkowitz, who signed the city's nondiscrimination ordinance into law in 2015.
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He said the memo's references to values of nondiscrimination and transparency don't have much force behind them.
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In North Carolina and Tennessee, state laws actually prohibit cities from enacting their own local nondiscrimination laws.
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Government-funded programs that reach out to runaway youth will face new nondiscrimination requirements under the rule.
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Conservatives managed to turn public opinion to oppose an LGBTQ nondiscrimination law by scaring people about bathrooms.
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There are no such cases of this happening in US jurisdictions with nondiscrimination laws for LGBTQ people.
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The only nondiscrimination requirement around these plans requires them to make information readily available to any small businesses.
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The measure also creates North Carolina's first statewide nondiscrimination policy for public places, including restaurants, hotels and taxis.
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The law reserves to the state the right to pass nondiscrimination legislation, saying state laws supersede local ordinances.
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As well as prohibiting this, House Bill 2 also stopped any other municipal governments from passing nondiscrimination ordinances.
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Dent argued that the NDAA was not the place to have a debate about religious freedom versus nondiscrimination.
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"We can't let ourselves fall into the misconception that religious freedom and nondiscrimination are mutually exclusive," Dent said.
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It is instituting a new nondiscrimination policy, asking users to agree to a "community commitment" starting on Nov.
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Moreover, there's absolutely no evidence that the passage of nondiscrimination laws leads to more sexual assaults or harassment.
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However, all are required to accommodate service animals without additional fees as a part of Airbnb's Nondiscrimination Policy.
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John Bel Edwards signed a nondiscrimination executive order on Wednesday and rescinded an executive order from former Gov.
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In this year's index, 2500 percent of Fortune 22002 companies have nondiscrimination policies with protections for trans workers.
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Congress must play a major role in LGBT nondiscrimination issues, according to Log Cabin Republican president Gregory Angelo.
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Interpreting "sex" in federal nondiscrimination laws to mean "gender identity" will lead to absurd and unsolvable legal dilemmas.
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Opponents of nondiscrimination protections for trans people frequently point to a certain facility to make their case: bathrooms.
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Shutterstock Shutterstock A similar ruling, LGBTQ advocates contend, could be applied to federal, state, or local nondiscrimination protections.
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Still, the myth was apparently potent enough to get Houston voters to turn against their local nondiscrimination measure.
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There are no such cases of this happening in any US jurisdiction with nondiscrimination laws for LGBTQ people.
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Companies have also stepped up protections: 85% of the Fortune 20173 have gender identity included in their nondiscrimination policies.
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Right now, under the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act (GINA), wellness programs cannot inquire about an employee's family medical history.
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One of the big issues that LGBTQ advocates previously expected to end up at the Court was nondiscrimination laws.
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The bill would also strengthen nondiscrimination protections in the Immigration and Nationality Act to prohibit discrimination based on religion.
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The House Freedom Caucus wants to repeal the entire guidance, stripping trans people of nondiscrimination protections in public schools.
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His lawsuit is joined by a handful of similar ones in Oregon, which also has a broad nondiscrimination policy.
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Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.), notes that most large businesses have already added nondiscrimination policies protecting LGBTQ workers from discrimination.
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Typically they occupy private buildings off campus and exist independently from the university, beyond the reach of nondiscrimination policies.
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Such a policy would favor principles of nondiscrimination and inclusivity over respect for student autonomy and freedom of association.
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She helped to lead an effort to pass landmark nondiscrimination legislation in the state after graduating from American University.
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Several efforts at repealing the bill fell apart as Republicans insisted Charlotte rescind its L.G.B.T.-friendly nondiscrimination ordinance first.
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Legislators overturned that ordinance with a statewide nondiscrimination law that omits LGBTQ individuals from the list of protected classes.
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It is also one of the largest US corporations that does not include sexual orientation in its nondiscrimination policy.
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" According to the European Network Against Racism, the ruling "seriously undermines the right to equality and nondiscrimination of women.
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The second looked at discrimination toward gay or lesbian job applicants in neighboring cities with and without nondiscrimination protections.
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But there's just not as much of a deterrent for that company since they're not bound by nondiscrimination laws.
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In April 2019, I filed an ethics complaint to protest this violation of FIFA's nondiscrimination and human rights policies.
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So far, 2000 states and the District of Columbia have put strong nondiscrimination policies in place for transgender people.
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My question is, at the beginning you talked about what sounded like an internet Bill of Rights; privacy, nondiscrimination.
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Opponents of nondiscrimination laws counter that there are some examples of men sneaking into women's bathrooms to attack women.
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The outcome of the case could reach far beyond one bakery, with implications for nondiscrimination laws across the country.
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And with HB2 proposed and signed into law within 24 hours, North Carolina Republicans struck down all local LGBTQ nondiscrimination ordinances in the state and imposed anti-trans rules in school and government building bathrooms — suggesting the focus on bathrooms was part of a bigger ploy to undo all LGBTQ nondiscrimination protections.
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"Rather than expand nondiscrimination laws to protect all North Carolinians, the General Assembly instead spent $42,000 to rush through an extreme bill that undoes all local nondiscrimination laws and specifically excludes gay and transgender people from legal protections," said Sarah Preston, acting executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union of North Carolina.
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Brown also signed a bill in 2011 to ensure "gender identity" and "gender expression" were added to California's nondiscrimination laws.
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"The American people know that the internet is for everyone and was invented with the guiding principle of nondiscrimination," Sen.
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North Carolina's law did two big things: One, it banned local nondiscrimination laws that include sexual orientation and gender identity.
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Montevallo, a university town just south of Birmingham, passed an LGBT nondiscrimination ordinance in April after a two-year fight.
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This is all to say, there are limits to nondiscrimination rules — and the baker case is in a middle ground.
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Last week, Sessions released religious liberty guidance that critics fear could let federal workers and contractors sidestep LGBT nondiscrimination policies.
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When she complained to the school that Ragg was violating Transylvania's nondiscrimination policy, Garcia said officials declined to take action.
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Obama expanded Johnson's underlying nondiscrimination order to also protect LGBTQ people working for federal contractors, leaving Bush's narrow exemption intact.
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It includes new references to laws about unfair employment practices against immigrants, religious land use protections, genetic nondiscrimination, and more.
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In Houston, for example, voters struck down a local nondiscrimination law after opponents of the ordinance trumpeted the bathroom myth.
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And North Carolina's law came after Charlotte added sexual orientation and gender identity to its nondiscrimination protections for public accommodations.
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Findings by state and federal nondiscrimination agencies are also not made public, unless a claim is attached to a lawsuit.
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The Trump administration is planning to introduce rules to strip transgender patients of nondiscrimination protections, multiple news outlets reported Wednesday.
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After same-sex marriage, nondiscrimination protections have been widely viewed by LGBTQ advocates as the next big battle for equality.
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In conservative north Florida, the state's largest city, Jacksonville, recently passed a nondiscrimination policy after a fight that lasted years.
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Giving employers such power is now prohibited by legislation including the 2008 genetic privacy and nondiscrimination law known as GINA.
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It can revert to "pre-existing law and practice," letting each community decide what non-bathroom nondiscrimination rules it wants.
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The so-called nondiscrimination rule could actually make it easier for the EPA to disregard civil rights complaints, they say.
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The HHS memo is a "blueprint" for discrimination, and the nondiscrimination proposal is a major part of it, Tobin said.
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Without increased competition, I believe that utility regulation — in the form of a nondiscrimination or neutrality regime — is very likely.
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In response, North Carolina lawmakers enacted HB 2, a state law barring local municipalities from enacting their own nondiscrimination ordinances.
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I think the politics of nondiscrimination have gone too far and are being too often used now to bully people.
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Many municipalities have nondiscrimination laws that only apply within their local borders, even in states that don't have such laws.
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McCrory tried to make up for this by giving state employees nondiscrimination protections based on sexual orientation and gender identity.
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A law passed in June amended the Human Rights Act to include nondiscrimination protections for gender identity and gender expression.
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These laws go beyond the federal Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act (GINA) which prevents genetic discrimination in the health insurance sector.
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"What that means for the L.G.B.T. community is that we continue to be boxed out of nondiscrimination protections," she said.
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Since then, nondiscrimination has been a cornerstone of Australia's social evolution, something both major parties have proudly regarded as nonnegotiable.
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Many, many polls have found that a majority of Americans think nondiscrimination protections are already in place for LGBTQ people.
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If the Supreme Court does rule in Craig and Mullins's favor, it would preserve today's nondiscrimination laws as they are.
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When the Americans with Disabilities Act was passed in 1990, political compromise necessitated excluding health insurance from its nondiscrimination protections.
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But Democrats control a small minority in Missouri's legislature, so they don't have the ability to pass a nondiscrimination law.
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During his time as mayor of Davao City, he pushed through nondiscrimination laws protecting both women and the city's Muslim minority.
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Coupled with introducing more Americans to their transgender neighbors, we're committed to growing awareness about what comprehensive nondiscrimination protections really mean.
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North Carolina's law, for instance, came after Charlotte added sexual orientation and gender identity to its nondiscrimination protections for public accommodations.
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That leaves a hole in nondiscrimination laws to be settled even if courts ultimately come down in favor of LGBTQ rights.
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First, it would require that cities and counties that propose new LGBTQ nondiscrimination ordinances give the state legislature 30 days' notice.
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During Obama's time in office, there were multiple pushes to pass the Employment Nondiscrimination Act (ENDA) and, later, the Equality Act.
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That should begin to change as a new rule to Section 1557, the Affordable Care Act's primary nondiscrimination provision, takes effect.
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Equity and nondiscrimination for the elderly, the disabled, women of color, and LGBTQ people runs as a theme throughout the document.
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Rutledge cited an Arkansas law forbidding cities and counties from extending nondiscrimination protections beyond those classes identified at the state level.
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Masterpiece Cakeshop raised a similar -- and equally troubling -- claim: whether Phillips could ignore state nondiscrimination laws because of his religious beliefs.
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The fact is, nondiscrimination laws were never meant to compel the creation of art or expression in violation of one's conscience.
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All of this requires a certain expertise in civil rights and nondiscrimination laws, which Dreiband will surely bring to the job.
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In November, Houston failed to keep its nondiscrimination law on the books after a campaign focused on transgender people in bathrooms.
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Nor did we hear much about how Trump is blocking a minimum wage increase or federal nondiscrimination rules for LGBTQ people.
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A federal judge in Texas later blocked that portion of the rule, dealing the first blow to the ACA's nondiscrimination policies.
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"The guidance resources that were withdrawn or removed are critical to ensuring nondiscrimination rules are fully and faithfully implemented," they wrote.
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The Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act prevents health care companies and employers from using genetic data to deny you employment or coverage.
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The state's Democrats didn't vote for it because it would have imposed a renewable, six-month moratorium on cities passing nondiscrimination laws.
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According to a story in Nashville's City Paper, Rodgers was vocal about his strong disapproval of a nondiscrimination policy during a meeting.
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If we lose nondiscrimination protections enshrined in the Affordable Care Act, my situation could soon seem like an unachievable, best case scenario.
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In that sense, the Affordable Care Act completed the nondiscrimination requirements of the Americans With Disabilities Act, more than two decades later.
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Currently, North Dakota is one of the majority of states lacking nondiscrimination laws that offer protections for sexual orientation and gender identity.
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" Yale spokesman Thomas Conroy told Fox News that "Yale is committed to nondiscrimination on the basis of sex in all its programs.
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The Obama administration's policies, along with other nondiscrimination measures that protect trans people, are not about non-trans men or sexual predators.
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In 603, the Department of Agriculture became the second federal agency to explicitly include gender identity and expression in its nondiscrimination regulations.
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However, the law replacing it isn't entirely LGBTQ-friendly, since it prohibits local governments from enacting nondiscrimination ordinances for three years. Rep.
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Besides, the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act of 2008 prohibits employers and health insurance companies from discriminating against you based on your DNA.
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What's more, there is bipartisan public support for such efforts; majorities of Democrats, independents and Republicans all support nondiscrimination legislation, PRRI found.
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Airbnb, for its part, has recently taken steps to stamp out such racial bias, including the creation of a new nondiscrimination policy.
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In 2018, the Supreme Court ruled that applying nondiscrimination laws to religious people showed 'hostility' in the case of Masterpiece Cakeshop v.
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If you're just going to assume they're monopolies, you're going to end up with a nondiscrimination standard, which is like utility regulations.
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In addition, the city of Anchorage, Alaska, is facing a similar ballot initiative in reaction to a two-year-old nondiscrimination ordinance.
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Those federal agencies all have Offices of Civil Rights, which enforce nondiscrimination laws as they relate to education, healthcare, housing, and employment.
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The legislation also bans municipalities from enacting new nondiscrimination laws and prohibits cities from raising their minimum wage above the state level.
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CIVIL RIGHTS LAWS AUTHORITATIVELY SET THE MORALS OF A COMMUNITY Across the board, the studies found nondiscrimination laws reduce signs of prejudice.
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The 14th Amendment guarantees equal protection of the law, and nondiscrimination statutes are on the books at state, local, and federal levels.
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He also touted his signing of a 2002 bill in New York City affirming nondiscrimination protections for transgender and gender-nonconforming people.
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"Florida is a tremendously inclusive, immensely diverse state," said Oliva, who claimed that nondiscrimination laws could open employers up to "burdensome" litigation.
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He says the nondiscrimination bill currently boasts 66 cosponsors from both political parties, the third most of any bill in the legislature.
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What was the Obama administration's position on nondiscrimination laws requiring schools to allow transgender students to use the bathrooms of their choice?
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The N.C.A.A. still requires host sites to fill out a questionnaire detailing any obstacles to nondiscrimination that might affect athletes or fans.
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Many wedding expos, websites, registries, professional organizations and social media groups have nondiscrimination policies requiring all vendors to serve same-sex couples.
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North Carolina's so-called bathroom bill sought to squash a local ordinance in Charlotte adding gender identity to the city's nondiscrimination policy.
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" Sparks chastised the headmaster ... "We've spent way, way too much time in the first few months talking about 'tolerance, diversity, nondiscrimination and LGBT.
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With the measure's defeat, existing nondiscrimination protections for trans people that were approved by the Anchorage Assembly in 2015 will remain in place.
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President John F. Kennedy established affirmative action programs by executive order in 1961 to advance the goals of "nondiscrimination" within society at large.
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And while all of those subjects could be relevant to LGBT rights, the speech did not address nondiscrimination principles or cases at all.
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When that bill was amended to ensure that the law did not trump local nondiscrimination ordinances, the sponsor of the bill, State Sen.
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Congress and the American public should push back and affirm that the United States is still committed to fairness, nondiscrimination and human rights.
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There's a nondiscrimination clause now posted in every gift-shop entryway, one reminder among many that erasure of past sins can be redemptive.
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It no longer includes citations to several laws addressing nondiscrimination in federal grant programs, but the manual addresses enforcement of those laws elsewhere.
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And all employees, regardless of whether they have signed a separation agreement, can always file formal complaints with state or federal nondiscrimination agencies.
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In Houston, it was one of the ideas opponents of a nondiscrimination law used to get people to vote against the local measure.
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HB2 was a reaction to the city of Charlotte's recent approval of a nondiscrimination ordinance that protected LGBT individuals from discrimination by businesses.
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They are also co-authors of the policy brief What the new Affordable Care Act nondiscrimination rule means for providers and LGBT patients.
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While more than a dozen states have passed similar nondiscrimination legislation, many have not and no such law exists on a nationwide basis.
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Such disputes in which conservative Christians who oppose gay marriage seek exemption from nondiscrimination laws increased after the Supreme Court's gay marriage decision.
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In its report, the company said it would start issuing reminders about the nondiscrimination policy to hosts by the end of the year.
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He has criticized the most-favored-nations, nondiscrimination concept, which is the cornerstone of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade/WTO system.
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The controversial law restricts cities from passing nondiscrimination laws more broadly and requires people to use bathrooms that correspond to their biological sex.
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Recently, the administration let it be known it opposes the Equality Act, a nondiscrimination bill for LGBTQ people, which recently passed the House.
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People in places with existing nondiscrimination laws were more likely to be aware of the protections, and they were less likely to discriminate.
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Since federal law doesn't explicitly ban discrimination against LGBTQ people, this would effectively amount to an expansion of whom federal nondiscrimination law protects.
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Religious contractors that administer foster care programs could refuse to place foster children with gay couples, even in states that have nondiscrimination laws.
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The Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act covers most but not all health insurance, and fails to cover life, disability and long-term care insurance.
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And in that moment, he points out that a transgender nondiscrimination law would help people who feel discriminated against at school or work.
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Current nondiscrimination laws, however, have cast off their historical roots, not only the protected classes included, but also the types of businesses covered.
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By overturning this nondiscrimination protection, the Trump administration claims it's protecting children — not from bullies or menacing adults, but from their own peers.
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But there's another way to look at the finalists: More than half of the 20 cities are in states that lack nondiscrimination laws.
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Austin and Pittsburgh, both finalists for HQ2 and located in states without nondiscrimination laws, scored perfect 100s on the HRC's municipal equality index.
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The vast majority of them endorsed strict nondiscrimination rules that supporters viewed as necessary to preserve the democratic ethos of an open internet.
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At least one of those policies is under attack in Philadelphia, where a faith-based agency sued the city over its nondiscrimination requirement.
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That could be because Latino students are the dominant population at his school, or because his classroom has a clearly stated nondiscrimination policy.
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Doctors could also condition care on a trans person detransitioning in any state that doesn't already have trans nondiscrimination protections on the books.
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And in that moment he points out that a transgender nondiscrimination law would help people who feel discriminated against at school or work.
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LGBTQ nondiscrimination laws essentially build on existing state and federal laws that prohibit other forms of discrimination LGBTQ nondiscrimination laws essentially build on existing state and federal laws that prohibit other forms of discrimination — most notably the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Fair Housing Act, which protect people from discrimination based on their race, color, national origin, religion, and sex.
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But on Monday, the City Council there rescinded its nondiscrimination ordinance -- apparently in exchange for a special session by the legislature to repeal HB2.
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I wonder if learning about ontogeny nondiscrimination and substrate independence will help students when, for instance, an employer asks them to do something fishy.
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The statewide policy bans individuals from using public bathrooms that do not correspond to their biological sex and restricts cities from passing nondiscrimination laws.
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" And when the Justice Department argued against protections for gay and transgender workers, that was, supposedly, "pushing us toward a federal LGBT nondiscrimination law.
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However, the study finds that Massachusetts' nondiscrimination laws, which include protections for transgender individuals, did not affect the number or frequency of criminal incidents.
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Evans, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down as unconstitutional a Colorado constitutional amendment prohibiting local municipalities from affording nondiscrimination protections to the LGBT community.
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And well keep making the case in Congress, in statehouses and in future FCC proceedings about the need to restore the vital nondiscrimination rules.
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The state's legislature only meets every other year, meaning that LGBTQ advocates have been pushing for specific nondiscrimination laws for the past eight years.
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Right now, legislation is winding its way through Congress that seeks to undo some of the protections of the Genetic Information and Nondiscrimination Act.
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In America the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act bans health insurers (and employers) from using such results, but is silent on other types of insurance.
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"I couldn't be fired for being gay," David, who works at a Fortune 20 company with a formal nondiscrimination policy for LGBTQ people, said.
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We've seen GOP lawmakers cast deciding votes in favor of the freedom to marry, introduce nondiscrimination measures, and defeat and sometimes veto harmful legislation.
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We still see a patchwork of gaps in state and local nondiscrimination laws that add complications and uncertainty for our people and local managers.
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In exchange for limits on what government aid they can receive, religious organizations are already exempt from a host of regulations, like nondiscrimination requirements.
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A majority of people in every state and a majority of voters in both the Republican and Democratic parties support LGBT inclusive nondiscrimination laws.
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The North Carolina legislation bars cities from passing nondiscrimination laws and requires people to use bathrooms that correspond to their assigned sex at birth.
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Houston voters in November overwhelmingly rejected a measure known as the "bathroom ordinance" that would have established nondiscrimination protections for gay and transgender people.
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She was extremely articulate about what [nondiscrimination protection] means, and why it's important that Delaware be a state that welcomes and embraces all people.
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And in that moment, the canvasser points out that a transgender nondiscrimination law would help people who feel discriminated against at school or work.
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"We can formalize certain notions of fairness and nondiscrimination, affirmatively, at the outset," said Solon Barocas, a professor of information science at Cornell University.
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And they are out of step with the American public, 69 percent of whom support LGBT nondiscrimination laws covering employment, housing, and public accommodations.
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And the Trump administration has decided to side with Mr. Phillips — a rare example of the Justice Department weighing in against a nondiscrimination law.
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Conservatives managed to turn public opinion to oppose an LGBTQ nondiscrimination law by scaring people about bathrooms Then conservatives began scaring people about bathrooms.
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The argument is that RFRAs (section 6 of the Georgia bill) create a legal workaround to nondiscrimination laws for employers, landlords, and business owners.
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To become a federal contractor, companies must agree to allow the Labor Department to audit their employment practice for compliance with federal nondiscrimination law.
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"The entire history and culture of Hawaii is based upon nondiscrimination either in its constitution as well as its laws," Chin told CNN affiliate KHON.
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In doing so, the court fueled an emerging debate about whether state officials give fair hearings to religious people who try to sidestep nondiscrimination laws.
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Why it matters: President Trump is steadily rolling back Obama-era nondiscrimination policies across the entire federal government — including health care, housing and the military.
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To make nondiscrimination in health care a reality, health care providers, facilities, and insurers will need to assess whether or not they are in compliance.
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In the coming weeks, the Department of Health and Human Services is expected to release new rules regarding nondiscrimination protections under the Affordable Care Act.
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In other words, "a state cannot enable a provider or an insurer to opt out of nondiscrimination requirements that apply under federal law," Samuel said.
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This is in clear violation of the 4th Fundamental Principle of the Volleyball Federation's own constitution and the Olympic Charter, both of which promise nondiscrimination.
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Instead, it simply doubled down on discrimination against transgender people, leaving the ban against city-level nondiscrimination ordinances in place and adding more local restrictions.
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Cooper said the measure conflicted with the nondiscrimination policy adopted by his office in 2001 that extended protections based on sexual orientation and marital status.
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The City Council's vote contains a provision saying that Charlotte can reinstate its nondiscrimination ordinance if state lawmakers fail to repeal HB2 by Dec. 31.
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For several years, the L.G.B.T. rights movement has felt almost unstoppable, as marriage equality became the law of the land and nondiscrimination efforts steadily progressed.
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"I hope we're not getting this politically correct crap about transgender bathrooms," he said during a debate about how to word a business nondiscrimination clause.
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"However, we do support nondiscrimination," responded Andy Puzder, chairman of the subcommittee and CEO of CKE Restaurants, which owns the Carl's Jr. and Hardees brands.
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In a statement, Ms. Jackson Lee's office highlighted her long record supporting workplace safety and nondiscrimination laws, including a measure applying those standards to Congress.
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In Texas, for example, 67 percent of Americans support nondiscrimination protections for LGBTQ people, according to a 2015 survey from the Public Religion Research Institute.
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New York (CNN)Hillary Clinton marched in the New York Pride parade on Sunday, highlighting her support for same-sex marriage and national LGBT nondiscrimination laws.
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But in its new nondiscrimination ordinance, Charlotte included a provision that told local public accommodations to let trans people use the bathroom for their gender identity.
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In any case, Airbnb explained in a statement to Gizmodo that it will remove users who don't comply with the company's "Community Commitment," or nondiscrimination clause.
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His proposal would require local governments to provide 30 days notice to state lawmakers before voting on nondiscrimination ordinances, ensuring an opportunity for input, he said.
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President Obama expanded Johnson's underlying nondiscrimination order to also protect LGBT people working for federal contractors in 2014, but he left Bush's narrow exemption in place.
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Vest isn't sure Nico understands the weight of the nondiscrimination ordinance, and he'd prefer that she stay sheltered from as much anti-trans sentiment as possible.
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President John F. Kennedy established affirmative action programs for government contractors by executive order in 1961 to advance the goals of "nondiscrimination" within society at large.
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Proponents of North Carolina's law have also been unable to point to a single instance of sexual assault or harassment that resulted from LGBTQ nondiscrimination laws.
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It's true that many schools' nondiscrimination policies have made life more difficult for Christian ministries that require student leaders to assent to a statement of faith.
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Then they failed to repeal the state's controversial "bathroom bill" despite making a deal with the Charlotte City Council, which had rescinded a nondiscrimination ordinance. 21.
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Airbnb, on the other hand, has a nondiscrimination policy, which all hosts and guests are required to agree to when they sign up for the service.
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When love is in full bloom, it goes everywhere and touches everything and in its nondiscrimination constitutes an attitude rarely seen or enacted in human story.
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" The new nondiscrimination policy forbids turning down a potential guest because of their "race, color, ethnicity, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, or marital status.
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If they have a constitutional right to express their views by refusing to comply with a nondiscrimination law, could they defy other government rules as well?
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"Moreover, such a policy runs counter to core American values of nondiscrimination, fair play, and extending a warm welcome to foreign visitors and immigrants," it added.
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The results for questions on nondiscrimination laws and refusal of service were based on about 40,000 interviews conducted in 22015 from March 22017 to Dec. 22016.
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This year, more than two dozen Republican lawmakers in over a dozen states sponsored L.G.B.T.Q. nondiscrimination legislation; and many Republicans refused to pass discriminatory, anti-L.
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That's because federal civil rights laws don't ban sex discrimination in public accommodations, leaving a hole in nondiscrimination laws at the federal level for LGBTQ rights.
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"This tactic is the only thing that has been proven to work on nondiscrimination, so without it we wouldn't have been able to win," they say.
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Still, supporters say the bans are roughly similar to the familiar idea of weaving nondiscrimination requirements and other mandates that reflect a government's goals into contracts.
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"The firm is strongly committed to nondiscrimination, and looks forward to addressing this former employee's claims on the merits," spokeswoman Christy Jockle said in an email.
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The biggest concern for civil rights advocates, though, is that a ruling in favor of Masterpiece Cakeshop would open a massive hole in all nondiscrimination laws.
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But if it does, it could present a national model for resisting a tactic that has so far been successful for opponents of LGBTQ nondiscrimination laws.
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Though the Trump administration has dealt blows to LGBTQ student rights, public schools are still required by some states to provide limited nondiscrimination policies for queer students.
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The expanded nondiscrimination provision in the bill would ban discrimination in housing, employment and public accommodations -- including bathroom access for transgender people, the News and Observer said.
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The administration now seeks to fund religious adoption agencies that refuse same-sex parents and is planning a rule to let religious federal contractors sidestep nondiscrimination orders.
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And since December, each user must sign the "Chappy Pledge," a nondiscrimination agreement that draws attention to rules which often get hidden in an app's service terms.
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The new rule would not eliminate longstanding nondiscrimination executive orders — such as a 2014 order banning LGBT discrimination — but rather create a pathway to get around them.
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"All employees, regardless of whether they have signed a separation agreement, can always file formal complaints with state or federal nondiscrimination agencies," reads Apple's statement, in part.
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Surveys show that most Americans widely support nondiscrimination protections, but a major hurdle to getting the laws passed may be that Americans think they're already in place.
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"In the long run, what's more important than achieving diversity by fiat is really policies on education, nondiscrimination, child care, things of that sort," Mr. Noland said.
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The district has nondiscrimination policies in place that apply to all students, and is reviewing and revising those policies as they relate to transgender students, Ruder said.
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Tony Perkins, president of the Family Research Council, told CNBC last week that he has "every confidence" Republicans will secure exemptions to nondiscrimination laws for religious groups.
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For an example, look no further than the 1996 Telecommunications Act itself, which passed Congress by huge margins and still provides the bedrock nondiscrimination laws we need.
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The need to define "sex" — not usually explicitly defined in nondiscrimination clauses — seems like a slight to the transgender community, especially coming from proponents of bathroom bills.
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With the new classification, the group will now reportedly be able to receive the same benefits given to religious organizations, spanning from tax exemptions to nondiscrimination protections.
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That delay is causing confusion in the health care industry: ObamaCare's nondiscrimination statute is the law, even if a rule implementing it has been put on hold.
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Although Massachusetts previously passed nondiscrimination protections, the law now faces a ballot challenge this fall, and Montana may also have a statewide vote to limit transgender freedom.
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Activists were pleased by both actions but said they would continue to fight for full nondiscrimination protections for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people in the state.
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In terms of trying to impose some sort of a nondiscrimination remedy or neutrality standard, the main argument you hear is that it would negatively impact investment.
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Surveys show that most Americans widely support nondiscrimination protections, but a major hurdle to getting the laws passed may be that Americans already think they're in place.
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The Supreme Court voted to invalidate a Colorado nondiscrimination law as it applied to a baker who refused to provide a cake to a same-sex wedding.
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This can only be achieved by starting from common European values — such as diversity, nondiscrimination and the right to privacy — to develop A.I. in a responsible way.
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Over the past three years, the administration has taken steps to revoke health care nondiscrimination protections for trans people and roll back protections for homeless trans people.
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The pope's pledge embraces the values that many AI ethics experts have already called for by pointing to values of transparency, nondiscrimination, and the right to privacy.
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Just days before the conference, the federal government proposed a rule that would roll back nondiscrimination protections for individuals receiving services from programs funded by the HHS.
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The measure also blocks moves by many sympathetic local governments to pass nondiscrimination laws that guarantee transgender people the right to use the bathrooms of their choice.
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Emily Forrest, a communications manager for Zola, told BuzzFeed News that the company had reviewed the complaint and determined that it did not violate Zola's nondiscrimination policy.
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Instead, the new exemptions apply strictly on the basis of sex, sexual orientation, and gender identity — thereby establishing, in essence, a lower-class set of nondiscrimination rights.
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McCrory has blamed the controversy on the Charlotte City Council, saying the city's enactment of a nondiscrimination ordinance regarding transgender people created the need for the law.
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The legislature later passed the Gender Expression Nondiscrimination Act, or Genda, which prohibits discrimination based on "gender identity or expression" by employers, educational institutions, landlords or creditors.
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They were most recently used in Houston, Texas, when advocates there defeated the city's LGBTQ nondiscrimination ordinance by saying the law would give predators access to children.
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The local ordinance was meant to fill a gap in Texas's — and most states' — laws: LGBTQ people aren't currently included in most state and federal nondiscrimination statutes.
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Pat McCrory called a special session Wednesday, but the deal fell apart when the GOP added a six-month moratorium on cities passing nondiscrimination ordinances for LGBT people.
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Again, if the Trump administration alters its position on this issue, it could result in a loss to the LGBTQ plaintiff and a defeat for LGBTQ nondiscrimination protections.
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The past year was tremendous for LGBTQ people in America, from the full legalization of same-sex marriage to Caitlyn Jenner to some smaller victories in nondiscrimination laws.
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And several corporations that display rainbow logos for pride also give heartily to Republican candidates who have advanced a national agenda to block and repeal LGBT nondiscrimination policies.
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It's the second nondiscrimination ordinance in the state; Birmingham passed one in September 2017, though by February, the city had not yet created a commission to enforce it.
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"Supreme Court Upholds Basic Principles of Nondiscrimination," declared a press release, which noted the court recognized anti-gay and anti–religious discrimination are both protected under Colorado law.
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The protections of the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act (GINA) meant health professionals could confidently reassure patients that taking a genetic test would not expose them to new risks.
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The provisions, Roberts wrote, "operate in different spheres" — the president's ability to bar entry relates to admissibility, whereas the nondiscrimination provision simply relates to the issuance of visas.
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The leading goal of the conservative Christian legal movement is to argue that religious freedom creates a loophole in nondiscrimination law — undermining the foundation of civil rights law.
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If a city or county does at some point enact a nondiscrimination statute, the law could then be used by businesses and agencies to bypass those local measures.
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But now the San Francisco–based short-term rental company has decided to hold its hosts accountable too, by updating its nondiscrimination policy, the New York Times reports.
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Pat McCrory signed into law a bill that bars transgender people from using public bathrooms for the gender they identify as and limits cities from passing nondiscrimination laws.
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Their relationship has only devolved since Cooper won the governor's office amid lawsuits and a high-profile spat over the controversial 2016 law, HB2, superseding local nondiscrimination ordinances.
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H.B. 272 revoked every local nondiscrimination ordinance in the state, replacing them all with a single policy that explicitly excluded sexual orientation and gender identity as protected classes.
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Social expansion of gender roles, as well as workplace nondiscrimination policies, have resulted in increased occupational integration, but occupational segregation continues to shape wage setting and pay equity.
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HRW argued that "no promo homo" laws, along with a lack of nondiscrimination measures, such as explicit anti-bullying protections for LGBTQ kids, enable the abuse and discrimination.
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Don Marsh, then a pastor at the Ohio Valley Christian Center, sat on Wheeling's Human Rights Commission and voted against a recommendation last year for LGBT nondiscrimination protections.
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This combines with a decline in the enforcement of existing laws that could protect workers' bargaining power — laws protecting unions, laws against wage theft, nondiscrimination laws, and more.
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North Carolina's law bans nondiscrimination protections for LGBTQ people and stops transgender people in schools and government buildings from using the bathroom that corresponds with their gender identity.
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Of the 10 states currently carrying out or proposing Medicaid work requirements, only two — Maine and Utah — have an employment nondiscrimination law in place that protects trans workers.
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The law is nearly identical to the federal public accommodations law as well as to nondiscrimination laws in a majority of states, none of which include gender identity.
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CSS claimed its First Amendment rights to free exercise were being violated and the nondiscrimination rule was unfairly being applied to them as a form of religious hostility.
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His order affirms the right of the local governments and private-sector businesses to implement their own nondiscrimination policies, but left the bathroom portion of the law intact.
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More than 40 municipalities in Michigan now have nondiscrimination ordinances on the books, many of them in deeply red counties, including the small rural community where Locke lives.
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He also suggests checking out Movement Advancement Project's list of cities with local nondiscrimination protections for a sense of how a city's elected representatives view the L.G.B.T.Q. community.
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The introduction of Airbnb's nondiscrimination policy in September had little effect on the findings of the study, which was conducted from June to mid-November, the authors said.
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The delegation, which had formed through an open nondiscrimination process in the state, posed a challenge to the racist all-white delegation that had excluded Mississippi's black citizens.
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Sixty-three countries have nondiscrimination laws that protect gay men and lesbians, and 23 recognize same-sex marriage — most recently Finland and Slovenia, which did so this year.
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But it remains a balance we must strike, particularly as these goals are reinforced by our federal laws that ensure nondiscrimination as well as rights of free expression.
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One example is a case in Toronto, Canada, which now has a nondiscrimination law, in which a man disguised himself as a woman and attacked women in shelters.
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This week, a deal to reverse the measure in exchange for the repeal of a local nondiscrimination ordinance in Charlotte fell through, prompting widespread disappointment and outrage once again.
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Would he support laws that may create loopholes in existing nondiscrimination laws and executive orders, like the religious freedom measures that states have advanced over the past several years?
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According to PolitiFact's report, a man in Toronto, which now has nondiscrimination protections for LGBTQ people, disguised himself as a woman to sneak into women's shelters and attacked women.
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That was the message Republicans brought to a rowdy congressional hearing on Tuesday, when conservative lawmakers and think tanks denounced the nondiscrimination bill with increasingly uniform charges of sexism.
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But she told BuzzFeed News she was concerned it prioritizes employers over the individuals nondiscrimination policies are designed to protect — such as women seeking contraception coverage and LGBT workers.
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Again, the actual criticisms are about the anti-trans bathroom law for schools and government buildings and the ban on cities and counties passing nondiscrimination laws for LGBTQ people.
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And we'll keep making the case in Congress, in statehouses and in future FCC proceedings about the need to restore the vital nondiscrimination rules that Chairman Pai ripped away.
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Airbnb has banned a host for violating its nondiscrimination policies after the host told a woman that she would not "fit into" the neighborhood because she wore a hijab.
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He faced criticism from LGBT rights groups for his work with the organization, such as opposing the expansion of nondiscrimination protections to LGBT people in the city of Plano.
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Many plans offer a safe harbor company match or nonelective contribution that allow highly compensated employees to defer the maximum due, as the nondiscrimination testing is a deemed pass.
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"It's more than personal," State Senator Adam Ebbin of Virginia, the state's first openly gay legislator, said of a bill called the Government Nondiscrimination Act, which the House passed.
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The authors also didn't look at the effect of punishments attached to nondiscrimination laws — for example, whether tougher fines or the threat of jail time could further reduce discrimination.
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The House bill would prevent school districts and county or local governments from adopting or enforcing nondiscrimination ordinances that would allow transgender people to use bathrooms of their choice.
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Both supporters and critics of Georgia's religious freedom bill have, at different times, argued that it would allow businesses to bypass local nondiscrimination ordinances and discriminate against LGBTQ people.
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" Jenner, 67, who has been an outspoken advocate of nondiscrimination legislation, underscored her mission in a tweet on Wednesday: "Republicans need help understanding LGBTQ issues, and I'm here to help!
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In 2015, LGBTQ rights advocates worked with the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on a compromise law that delivered key nondiscrimination protections while clarifying certain religious exemptions.
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That law not only repealed existing local LGBTQ nondiscrimination protections but also prevented transgender people from using the bathroom that aligns with their gender identity in schools and government buildings.
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An infusion of cash at the last minute could put it on TV. Andrew Beckwith, the chair of Keep Massachusetts Safe, which is fighting to overturn a transgender nondiscrimination law.
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In April, HUD Secretary Ben Carson defended his department against criticism over withdrawing guidance on nondiscrimination by citing the Equal Access Rule in his testimony before the House Appropriations Subcommittee.
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North Carolina's lawsuit, also filed on Monday, however, contends that transgender identity is not recognized as a protected class under Title VII and should not be subject to nondiscrimination protections.
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Support for gay marriage and nondiscrimination protections in the black church has increased in the last decade, after all, even if it still trails behind other racial and religious groups.
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The Supreme Court ruled for the baker on those narrow grounds, avoiding the larger question of whether the baker could be exempted from nondiscrimination laws because of those religious beliefs.
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The law was a response to Charlotte's nondiscrimination ordinance that, among other things, made it possible for transgender individuals to use public bathrooms of the sex with which they identify.
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A 2014 report by the HRC Foundation found that out of 501 hospitals researched, 49 percent did not include both "sexual orientation" and "gender identity" in their patient nondiscrimination policies.
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The law struck down local nondiscrimination protections for LGBTQ people, and it bars trans people from using the bathroom that aligns with their gender identity in schools and government buildings.
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These protests follow plans announced by the Department of Education last month to publish a list of religious schools exempt from federal nondiscrimination policies for gender identity and sexual orientation.
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Durso said she doesn't expect nondiscrimination laws to prevent all anti-LGBTQ discrimination, but they could help — just like past legal protections for women, racial minorities, and people with disabilities.
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Nondiscrimination amendments to our civil rights laws can protect against discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity, while also guaranteeing the religious freedoms of individuals and organizations.
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"These types of restrictions violate our nondiscrimination policy and when they are flagged for our team, we reach out to the hosts to help correct the problem," the spokesperson said.
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Even cities and towns in North Carolina that would want to provide nondiscrimination protections are prohibited from doing so through 2020, under this new law, the non-repeal of HB2.
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Gregory Angelo, president of Log Cabin Republicans, a prominent LGBT group on the right, said the court's decision shines a spotlight on the glaring absence of federal LGBT nondiscrimination legislation.
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CFPB Auto- Lending Guidance: The Hill — Trump signed a joint congressional resolution to repeal the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's guidance issued during the Obama administration supporting nondiscrimination in auto lending.
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The U.S. government said in September it would broaden its nondiscrimination law to transgender individuals and require health insurers and medical providers to treat all patients equally, regardless of sex.
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The North Carolina law would bar local municipalities from passing nondiscrimination laws and would also require that people use the bathroom that corresponds to their biological sex assigned at birth.
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This president, who previously promised to maintain LGBT nondiscrimination protections, has turned his back on the transgender community and shown a willful disregard for the safety of transgender students everywhere.
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The issue of nondiscrimination protections for gay and transgender individuals may stir up cultural and political disagreement, but as a matter of law they should be straightforward, Mr. Englert added.
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Conservative religious individuals and organizations have objected for years to nondiscrimination laws that have affected whom they can hire and fire, whom they can serve and how they can operate.
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Last year, the company also instituted a nondiscrimination policy and took steps to better handle complaints of bias, including assurances that users treated unfairly will have a place to stay.
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Democrats in North Carolina, Ohio, Texas and elsewhere are fighting bills meant to weaken voting rights, dismantle nondiscrimination protections and defund vital programs meant to improve people's quality of life.
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The lawsuit was filed in November 2018 after the university issued a written warning to Nicholas Meriwether, a professor in the Philosophy department, for violating the Ohio university's nondiscrimination policy.
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There's also no evidence that nondiscrimination laws — and other policies that let trans people use the bathroom for their gender identity — lead to sexual assault in bathrooms and locker rooms.
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While nondisabled people may not think of it this way, immigration, transportation, reproductive rights, affordable housing, employment nondiscrimination, LGBTQ rights, racial injustice, and criminal justice reform are also disability issues.
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But again, most Republican voters — 62 percent — break from the party stance here by supporting nondiscrimination measures, alongside 78 percent of Democrats and 72 percent of all Americans, PRRI found.
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North Carolina's controversial new law bans nondiscrimination protections for LGBTQ people and stops transgender people in schools and government buildings from using the bathroom that corresponds with their gender identity.
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Image: Wikimedia CommonsTen years ago this year, Congress passed the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act, a whopper of a law conceived at the onset of an era of rapid advancement in genetics.
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Still, the partial repeal moved North Carolina closer to the federal government and most other states in the country, which do not have nondiscrimination laws that explicitly prohibit anti-LGBTQ discrimination.
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They are also an effort to coordinate consumer provisions in several competing federal laws, including the Americans With Disabilities Act, the Affordable Care Act and Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act of 2008.
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Evangelical Christians have managed to block several transgender rights measures — and comprehensive LGBT nondiscrimination policies — with claims they let transgender people, or men posing as them, sexually assault women in restrooms.
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There's also no evidence that nondiscrimination laws — and other policies that also let trans people use the bathroom for their gender identity — lead to sexual assault in bathrooms and locker rooms.
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The Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act, passed in 2008, prevents insurance companies and employers from forcing people to undergo genetic testing and bans companies from hiring or firing people based on genetics.
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Trans people, largely, would have been better served with an LGBTQ rights movement with a commitment toward state and federal nondiscrimination protections, rather than an all-out push for marriage equality.
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Federal law stipulates that whether there's a settlement or not, an aggrieved employee always has the option to file charges with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission or their state nondiscrimination agency.
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The law was passed in response to a nondiscrimination ordinance that Charlotte enacted that made it possible for transgender individuals to use the public bathroom that corresponds to their gender identity.
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In 2013, a florist in Richland, Washington, refused to serve a gay couple who came into her flower shop, citing her Christian faith to exempt her from the state's nondiscrimination law.
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The couple, Rob Ingersoll and Curt Freed, along with Washington State Attorney General Bob Ferguson, sued Arlene's Flowers owner Baronnelle Stutzman for violating the state's nondiscrimination law and consumer protection act.
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The Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act (GINA) of 2008 does protect people in some ways—for example, the law states that health insurance companies can't withhold coverage based on someone's genetic makeup.
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While the chamber supports nondiscrimination in compensation, it said the type of reporting proposed will create unnecessary burdens while providing no meaningful insight as to whether employer pay practices are discriminatory.
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Gay rights groups and the American Civil Liberties Union, which sued on behalf of the couple, hailed the ruling as a win for nondiscrimination ordinances that have passed in 19 states.
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Mike: Some important news out of Airbnb, which has committed to enforcing a nondiscrimination policy, after widespread complaints that hosts' discrimination against guests of color was running rampant across the platform.
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The 2018 graduate who spoke to Insider said the school could be doing more to address these issues, including adding a nondiscrimination section to the student handbook highlighting sexuality and gender.
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The newly proposed rules to protect people and the environment in World Bank investment projects enshrine critical human rights principles, including respect for individual dignity, transparency, accountability, consultation, participation and nondiscrimination.
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In some cases if you are considered a highly compensated employee (by IRS definition) in a 2628(k), your deferrals may be limited further due to nondiscrimination testing within your plan.
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The second goal of HB22019 was to ensure that any new classification for nondiscrimination laws would be established at the state level (thereby preventing cities and counties from following Charlotte's lead).
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But Dreiband does have a brief history of taking the opposite role, serving in the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, which upholds nondiscrimination laws in the workplace, under President George W. Bush.
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The effort in December failed because Democrats rejected a six-month moratorium to prevent local municipalities from passing nondiscrimination ordinances (far better than the three-year moratorium they accepted with HB22).
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The information contained in your genes can't be held against you by health insurance companies or most employers (excluding the military), thanks to the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act of 2008 (GINA).
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When SCOTUS hears Stephens' case in October, all of those lower-court decisions affirming the right of trans people to be included in sex-based nondiscrimination law will be under threat.
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The agreement nullified all local nondiscrimination ordinances in the state until December 31, 2020, and after that, cities like Asheville and Durham will be free to reinstate their LGBTQ inclusive laws.
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Despite her partisan leanings, Kerr believes this issue transcends thornier, more divisive issues surrounding LGBTQ equality, such as a statewide nondiscrimination bill that has languished in the legislature for two decades.
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"We will watch Vought closely and press to ensure that those helping decide how public money is spent and the government is managed understand the vital importance of nondiscrimination," he added.
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But the replacement kept a portion of the bill, which prevents local jurisdictions from passing nondiscrimination ordinances protecting LGBTQ people, such as the one in Charlotte that triggered HB2, until 2020.
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In other states, Republican governors may look at what happened in North Carolina and reconsider whether LGBTQ nondiscrimination laws and transgender people's access to bathrooms are good political battles to pick.
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That includes removing any host or guest accused of sexual assault from the platform and including a clause in its nondiscrimination policy that allows female hosts to accept only female guests.
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Moreover, there's no evidence that nondiscrimination laws — and other policies that also let trans people use the bathroom for their gender identity — lead to sexual assault in bathrooms and locker rooms.
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The federal government argues that the ban provision trumps the nondiscrimination provision, and that previous presidents have done basically the same thing Trump is doing in banning aliens based on nationality.
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Charlotte didn't have anything to lose by going along with the deal announced this week; HB2 had nullified its local ordinance anyway, since the state law struck down all local nondiscrimination laws.
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The Public Religion Research Institute found in 2017 that 70% of Americans support comprehensive LGBT nondiscrimination laws, though 39% also supported laws banning transgender people from restrooms that match their gender identity.
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That so-called "bathroom law" blocked cities from allowing transgender individuals to use public restrooms for the sex they identify as -- as well as restricting cities from passing nondiscrimination laws more broadly.
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We will also fight for comprehensive federal nondiscrimination protections for all L.G.B.T. Americans, to guarantee equal rights in areas such as housing, employment, public accommodations, credit, jury service, education, and federal funding.
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McCrory's order expands state employment policy to include sexual orientation and gender identity, and it affirms the right of the local governments and private sector businesses to implement their own nondiscrimination policies.
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The Prenatal Nondiscrimination Act forbids selective abortions "seeking to target babies," Aden said, based on prenatal diagnostic testing that shows the gender of the baby or a diagnosis such as Down syndrome.
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The New Hampshire law is the first statewide nondiscrimination victory for the gay and transgender community since Massachusetts passed a similar law in 2016 -- also signed by a Republican Governor, Charlie Baker.
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Meanwhile, state Republicans rallied rural voters with their latest anti-city scheme: House Bill 2, drafted hastily last spring after the city of Charlotte revised its nondiscrimination ordinance to protect gender identity.
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The school board for West Point High School voted unanimously to approve the termination of French teacher Peter Vlaming, citing its nondiscrimination and anti-harassment policies in a statement to ABC News.
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If you're not going to regulate them at all, or do anything to enforce against anti-competitive conduct, or to lower barriers, then you're going to end up with a nondiscrimination standard.
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The term net neutrality was coined in 2003 by an academic to encapsulate what had been an important concept for successful networks even going back to railroads – that of nondiscrimination from carriers.
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North Carolina's law, known as House Bill 20163, prevents local governments from passing nondiscrimination ordinances for LGBT people, and bars transgender people from using the bathroom that corresponds with their gender identity.
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The Charlotte ordinance expanded nondiscrimination laws to cover LGBTQ individuals in the city, allowing people to use their preferred bathroom and prohibiting businesses from denying services based on gender identity or sexuality.
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Her 2020 website discusses past support for bills on LGBTQ nondiscrimination and federal data collection on LGBTQ individuals but does not elaborate on what kinds of policies she would pursue if elected.
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This is despite the chain's continued history of making donations to anti-LGBTQ causes, ThinkProgress notes, and the company's refusal to include sexual orientation and gender identification in its employment nondiscrimination policy.
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In most of Indiana, an employer can already fire a gay person solely because of his sexual orientation without any religious justification, because sexual orientation isn't included in the state's nondiscrimination laws.
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Some Democratic senators propose repealing HB2 after a six-month "cooling off period" during which cities like Charlotte would be barred from passing nondiscrimination ordinances, but others advocate for a hard repeal.
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Arlington National Cemetery provides a good example of the kind of nondiscrimination the government should be aiming for: Federal rules allow for a wide array of religious and nonreligious symbols on headstones.
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Until recently, most corporate training programs focused on communicating company policies, building the company's "culture" and complying with legal mandates to provide instruction on sexual harassment, nondiscrimination and industry-specific regulatory requirements.
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He has been pushing for statewide LGBTQ nondiscrimination for nearly 30 years: first as an LGBTQ advocate lobbying at the state capitol and then as the state's first out as gay lawmaker.
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Finally, the Supreme Court has made it very clear that religious freedom is not unlimited; the Court has had no difficulty cabining religious freedom in favor of states' compelling interests in nondiscrimination.
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Two advocacy organizations, Equality NC and the Human Rights Campaign, expressed concerns that no protections for nondiscrimination policies for the L.G.B.T. community had been put in place by Charlotte or the state.
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Still, I didn't relax fully until 2008, when the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act prohibited employers nationwide from requesting, requiring or purchasing genetic information, and from discriminating on the basis of that information.
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The states argue that the nondiscrimination provision trumps the ban provision (and point out that the precedents for bans based on nationality aren't nearly as broad as the one Trump just issued).
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Masterpiece Cakeshop's attorneys, including members of the anti-LGBTQ advocacy organization Alliance Defending Freedom, argued that Phillips, as a baker, is an artist, and that Colorado's nondiscrimination law stifles his artistic expression.
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The report found that in states without LGBT nondiscrimination laws, 87 cities scored above the nationwide mean of 55 points, and 37 of those scored above 85 points, an increase from previous years.
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"Airbnb is, at its core, an open community dedicated to bringing the world closer together by fostering meaningful, shared experiences among people from all parts of the world," the company's nondiscrimination clause reads.
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Facebook, which will also now require all US advertisers to review and certify they accept the company's nondiscrimination policy, told BuzzFeed News the timing of these moves is not related to HUD's activity.
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Because of regulations in place preventing government funding of abortions, the nondiscrimination clause applied only when a health insurer or organization provided the same types of procedures for both abortions and nonabortion services.
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The law came in response to the city of Charlotte's nondiscrimination ordinance that, among other things, made it possible for transgender individuals to use public bathrooms of the sex with which they identify.
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The company added that it has overhauled its enforcement protocol and will take down listings that violate its new nondiscrimination policy — and suspend or remove hosts from the platform who violate the policy.
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But, she added, "I do think that [nondiscrimination laws] help to marginalize the idea of discrimination against LGBT people and move us toward a world in which that discrimination just happens less often."
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Michigan's Department of Health and Human Services is now required to maintain nondiscrimination provisions in its adoption agency contracts and end contracts with agencies found to have discriminated against LGBTQ couples or individuals.
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Under the terms of the deal, Microsoft stipulated that AnyVision should comply with its six ethical principles to guide its facial recognition work: fairness, transparency, accountability, nondiscrimination, notice and consent, and lawful surveillance.
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For LGBTQ advocates, the overall results present a tricky situation: Most Americans support nondiscrimination protections for LGBTQ people, but they don't appear to know that these protections aren't currently explicit under the law.
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In a statement published on Monday morning, the commerce ministry said the United States had "seriously violated" the principles of nondiscrimination enshrined in World Trade Organization rules, and had also damaged China's interests.
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And finally, while nondiscrimination policies must be enforced so that opportunities for African-American and Latino workers are improved, race-conscious affirmative action policies can heighten a dangerous strain of white identity politics.
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Through collective bargaining agreements with employers, union activists were pioneers of nondiscrimination protections, domestic partner benefits and transgender-inclusive health care coverage that became models for other contracts as well as public policy.
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We required its leadership, especially political appointees, to manifest genuine, deep and visible commitment to equal opportunity and nondiscrimination as we worked to restore credibility and integrity with USDA's farmer constituents and employees.
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The grant of nondiscrimination protection to transgender children, surely among the most vulnerable and harmless residents of our big country, is portrayed as having taken away rights from others — to do what, exactly?
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Once in office, however, the Trump administration has followed the lead of the GOP rather than Trump himself, amassing a striking record of executive branch actions that strip LGBT people of nondiscrimination protections.
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That effort kicked off in earnest in 2015, mere months after Caitlyn Jenner's Vanity Fair cover and the Supreme Court's landmark Obergefell ruling, in a Houston referendum over the city's LGBTQ nondiscrimination ordinance.
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Failing to abide by a group's L.G.B.T.Q. nondiscrimination clause is bad, but not bodily-injury bad, and there's no reason to think that you're uniquely well positioned to turn in these rule breakers.
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She will also fight for programs that help L.G.B.T.Q.+ youth once they become homeless, including reauthorizing and fully funding the Runaway and Homeless Youth Act and ensuring that it includes robust nondiscrimination protections.
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So when Charlotte, North Carolina, passed a nondiscrimination law that sought to ban discrimination against LGBTQ people in public accommodations, North Carolina Republicans immediately turned to bathrooms to repeal the measure. Then-Gov.
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As Robin Wilson, a law professor at the University of Illinois who helped write Utah's nondiscrimination law, told me, religious conflicts are the major obstacle to passing LGBTQ protections in more states: "The bigger problem is that if you convince people that giving gay folks rights is going to somehow encroach on religion, it's going to be harder to change that legislative map in the US." If religious carve-outs help get around this issue, more states may pass nondiscrimination laws.
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Sessions has been deft at advancing conservative social and criminal policies that the White House loves — providing the basis to rescind DACA, slicing away at LGBT nondiscrimination protections, targeting drug dealers, and prosecuting gangs.
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The legislators were responding to a nondiscrimination ordinance the city of Charlotte enacted that, among other things, made it possible for transgender individuals to use the public bathroom of the sex they identify as.
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LGBT groups insisted the bills were designed to create a loophole in LGBT nondiscrimination laws by letting anti-LGBT business owners claim a religious recusal; conservatives said the bills would merely protect religious beliefs.
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The other provision, which has riled some Democrats and transgender advocates, places a moratorium on local jurisdictions from passing nondiscrimination ordinances protecting LGBTQ residents — like the one in Charlotte that prompted HB2 — until 2020.
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As part of the measure, lawmakers also established a statewide nondiscrimination policy that protects people on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin and biological sex but not gender identity and sexual orientation.
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Airbnb does have a nondiscrimination policy, but it has a separate one for hosts outside of the United States and European Union that is transparently less comprehensive and protective for guests in these regions.
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Earlier this year, after the survey was conducted, the Department of Health and Human Services clarified Section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act — the nondiscrimination provision — to explicitly say it applied to gender identity.
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Known as the so-called "Slate of Hate," the bills include allowing adoption agencies to discriminate against same-sex couples and preventing government agencies from considering a business's nondiscrimination policies when selecting a contract.
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Airbnb has also been criticized for not making its nondiscrimination policy a bigger part of the process through which users become hosts and for burying the full text of the policy on its website.
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As reported in STAT, this extreme violation of privacy is currently deemed unlawful under current legislation, including the 1990 Americans with Disabilities Act and a 2008 genetic privacy and nondiscrimination law known as GINA.
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In March, North Carolina passed a sweeping law that prohibits nondiscrimination protections for LGBTQ people and bans trans people from using the bathroom that corresponds with their gender identity in schools and government buildings.
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Correction: Removed a mention of a misleading PolitiFact North Carolina report that suggested a man in Toronto, Canada, which now has a nondiscrimination law, disguised himself as a woman and attacked women in shelters.
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Among those goals: nondiscrimination in housing, employment and public accommodation, like locker rooms and public restrooms, and a robust response to the escalating number of bias-motivated killings, especially of transgender women of color.
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The arguments, though novel, are unlikely to satisfy some conservatives who believe that federal nondiscrimination laws do not cover sexual orientation and gender identity because Congress never provided for it in the original statute.
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That in itself was a defeat for the baker and his supporters, because they had asked for a very broad ruling: that an expansively defined constitutional right to free speech trumps any nondiscrimination statute.
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Trump has reversed or modified Obama-era rules on abortion and LGBTQ nondiscrimination, but in some of those cases Obama had reversed Bush-era rules and a Democratic president could change them yet again.
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"Any changes made to this bill can't hide its true animus: to legalize discrimination against LGBTQ people," said Masen Davis, CEO of Freedom for All Americans, a campaign that fights for LGBTQ nondiscrimination protections.
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While many advocates in the South continue to talk about a nondiscrimination law as if its passage is still years away — if not a generation off — Ebbin has seen firsthand that change is coming.
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The ADF is representing baker Jack Phillips, who is pushing back on Colorado's nondiscrimination protections after he refused to bake a wedding cake for a same-sex marriage in 85033, citing his religious objections.
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It is difficult to find a segment of society that Louise didn't help shape over the course of more than 30 years in Congress, from health care to genetic nondiscrimination to historic ethics reforms.
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Though Zola initially told BuzzFeed News the concerns raised in the letter don't violate its nondiscrimination policy, Forrest said Thursday that the company is now working with Color of Change to update its policies.
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The law, passed in a rush session by the state's legislature, strikes down local nondiscrimination ordinances and, most notably, requires transgender people to use public bathrooms that match the sex on their birth certificate.
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Roughly 15 percent to 20 percent of companies curb highly compensated employees' 401(k) contributions in some way to keep their plans from failing those nondiscrimination tests, said Rob Austin, head of research for Alight.
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They now need to consider: Is banning transgender people from using the bathroom of their choice in schools and government buildings and stopping local nondiscrimination laws for LGBTQ people really worth $5 billion a year?
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As it stands, most states and the federal government lack explicit nondiscrimination laws for LGBTQ people in the workplace, housing, public accommodations (restaurants, hotels, funeral homes, and other places that serve the public), and school.
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In its complaint filed in Manhattan federal court, the EEOC said Con Ed's practices violated the federal Americans with Disabilities Act, the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act of 2008, and the Civil Rights Act of 1991.
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In 2008, Congress passed the Genetic Information and Nondiscrimination Act, known as GINA, to specifically prohibit health insurers and employers from either requiring genetic testing or using it in making decisions about things like deductibles.
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A 2012 study by the Asian-American Performers Action Coalition (AAPAC) revealed that between 2005 and 2011, even with Equity's nondiscrimination clauses, white actors were cast in 79 percent of all available parts on Broadway.
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Second, Donald Trump has used and will probably continue to use rhetoric and appeals that challenge some of the substantive beliefs that we associate with modern democracy: tolerance, nondiscrimination, equality, solving problems through nonviolent means.
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Trans people, in particular, are facing the president-elect's stated promise to overturn all executive orders issued under President Obama, including a crucial 8003 order that offered nondiscrimination protections for trans government employees and contractors.
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The controversy revolves around disputes over the meaning of a 2008 federal law, the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act, as well as over administrative interpretations of the Affordable Care Act and the Americans with Disabilities Act.
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The legislation was passed in an effort to prevent cities and counties from passing their own nondiscrimination ordinances after Charlotte approved an ordinance allowing transgender people to use bathrooms that corresponded with their sexual identity.
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The policy, overseen by the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) which sets anti-discrimination rules for businesses working with the government, would weaken an LGBT+ nondiscrimination order by former U.S. President Barack Obama.
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Yes, but: It gives the state legislature the sole power to regulate access to "multiple occupancy restrooms, showers or changing facilities," and also prohibits local governments from enacting their own nondiscrimination policies through December 2020.
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"Hilde hopes that CVS will make its nondiscrimination policies public, so that transgender and non-binary customers have some assurance the corporation will take appropriate action if similar discrimination occurs in the future," Kilar said.
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HB22016 did two big things: In other words, HB22 was a mix of two types of anti-LGBTQ measures: state laws that ban local nondiscrimination measures for LGBTQ people and an anti-transgender bathroom bill.
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And with HB2 proposed and signed into law within 24 hours, North Carolina Republicans struck down all local LGBTQ nondiscrimination ordinances in the state and imposed anti-trans rules in school and government building bathrooms.
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Mr. McAdams became well known for negotiating a deal among Republicans, religious leaders and the gay community on a nondiscrimination ordinance, and worked with Republicans in the State Legislature to alleviate homelessness in the region.
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" Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts also released plans on Thursday, saying that she would restore many Obama-era policies that the Trump administration has eliminated and crack down on "overly broad religious exemptions to nondiscrimination.
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But it pointed out that the courts, the executive branch and the legislative branch had all been working to eliminate school desegregation; that concerted effort indicated that nondiscrimination in schools was a fundamental public policy.
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Gay rights supporters have swiftly condemned the president over the Justice Department and Education Department's rejection of the Obama administration's position that nondiscrimination laws allow transgender students to use bathrooms corresponding with their gender identities.
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They've passed legislation on background checks for gun buyers, tried to reauthorize the Violence Against Women Act, tried to extend nondiscrimination rules to LGBTQ people, and tried to raise the minimum wage to $15/hour.
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As this debate continues, the biggest concern for LGBTQ advocates has long been that a ruling in favor of Masterpiece Cakeshop or other businesses like it could open a massive hole in all nondiscrimination laws.
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Gumbel condemned the law, which prohibits local nondiscrimination laws that include sexual orientation and gender identity, and bans transgender people from using the bathrooms that align with their gender identities in schools and government buildings.
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But until all states and the federal government pass nondiscrimination statutes that include LGBTQ people, the biggest loophole is the lack of explicit civil rights protections for sexual orientation and gender identity in existing law.
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The North Carolina law, however, affects more than the city of Charlotte: It not only strikes down Charlotte's ordinance, but also overturns and bans all future local nondiscrimination protections for LGBTQ people across the state.
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In 2008, Congress passed the Genetic Information and Nondiscrimination Act, but both loopholes in the law and multiple Congressional actions threaten to erode protections that already exist, making people wary of the consequences of genetic testing.
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But more broadly, the nation is caught up in a debate about trans people using the bathroom that matches their gender identity — a debate that has stopped LGBTQ nondiscrimination laws in North Carolina and Houston, Texas.
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Kennedy wrote the majority opinion in all four of the pro-LGBT decisions cited — declaring sodomy laws unconstitutional, protecting local nondiscrimination laws, and striking down the Defense of Marriage Act and same-sex marriage bans nationwide.
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In Arkansas, North Carolina, and Tennessee, meanwhile, cities can no longer pass LGBT nondiscrimination ordinances — so a couple can get married, but it's not explicitly illegal for them to be fired for their same-sex marriage.
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Harris's bill also includes an important nondiscrimination tenet that ensures that individuals who have used or possessed marijuana in the past will still be eligible for public assistance, and won't face negative effects under immigration laws.
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Today we take for granted that federal law promotes nondiscrimination norms in the workplace in matters of race and gender, while an active political debate is ongoing about extending this principle to LGBTQ and transgender Americans.
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Jewish Israeli hosts are suing Airbnb, alleging the company violated the United States's Fair Housing Act, and its own nondiscrimination policy, by removing Jewish-owned properties in the West Bank from its short-term rental platform.
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Under the law, it's already legal for private employers to set their own bathroom and locker room policies, and local governments and private employers can already set up their own nondiscrimination policies for their own employees.
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The NCAA already removed championship events from the state this year because of the law, which limits LGBT nondiscrimination protections and requires transgender people to use public restrooms corresponding to the sex on their birth certificate.
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The law known as House Bill 2, which bars transgender people from using government-run restrooms that match their gender identity and limits local nondiscrimination protections, will doom the state's chances, Dupree wrote in a letter.
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It makes a subtle but key point about love: that when it is in full bloom, it goes everywhere and touches everything and in its nondiscrimination constitutes an attitude rarely seen or enacted in human story.
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On Thursday, Airbnb took its most aggressive steps yet to combat discrimination, releasing a 32-page report and instituting changes including a new nondiscrimination policy and requiring a "community commitment" from its hosts, writes Katie Benner.
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North Carolina's Republican-led legislature passed HB 2 during a one-day special session called after Charlotte, the state's largest city, adopted a nondiscrimination ordinance allowing transgender people to use bathrooms consistent with their gender identity.
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In the process, they not only jeopardize the rights of LGBT people, but the principle that underlies nondiscrimination law more generally -- that people should not be turned away or treated unfairly because of who they are.
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But they are required to keep students safe and promote equal access to education under Title IX, the civil rights law that secures nondiscrimination on the basis of sex or gender in federally funded educational programs.
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In a joint letter, the top civil rights officials from the Justice and Education Departments rejected the Obama administration's position that nondiscrimination laws require schools to allow transgender students to use the bathrooms of their choice.
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A bill repealing House Bill 2, which the legislature will consider on Thursday, would also create a moratorium on local nondiscrimination ordinances through 2020 and leave regulation of "multi-occupancy facilities," or bathrooms, to state lawmakers.
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After the Rasmusen controversy exploded on social media, Provost Lauren Robel issued a strongly worded statement decrying Rasmusen's actions and stating its nondiscrimination policy, but asserting that the First Amendment precludes the university from firing him.
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He doesn't simply see a society that has become secular and sexualized, but a progressive regime that insists Christians accept and even participate in the degeneracy or fall afoul of nondiscrimination laws and anti-bigotry norms.
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The bill would also weaken the role of the E.E.O.C. in overseeing wellness programs and its ability to prevent violations of antidiscrimination laws established under the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act and the Americans With Disabilities Act.
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"More broadly, the new executive order means that Hawai'i will be unable to honor the commitments to nondiscrimination and diversity embodied in the State's Constitution, laws, and policies," state attorneys said in the 40-page complaint.
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Also, the Catholic Church has attempted to claim a "ministerial exception" from nondiscrimination laws that conflict with religious tenets, but there's continued dispute about whether this applies to workers, like Shelly, who aren't in the clergy.
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Since courts have suggested that the government does have a compelling interest to ban discrimination in the workplace, housing, and public accommodations, RFRAs may not create a big enough loophole to successfully get around nondiscrimination protections.
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And as allies, we are pushing back against new and proposed rules undermining contraception and abortion access, LGBTQ healthcare nondiscrimination protections, shelter access for transgender people, vital data collection on LGBTQ youth in foster care, and more.
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Ending the arguments that religious beliefs allow entities to defy nondiscrimination laws when they receive government funds to do a particular job, and individuals and businesses to pick and choose who among the public they can serve.
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Multiple investigations have found zero evidence of increased incidents of sexual assault or other public safety concerns when trans people are granted legal nondiscrimination protections and allowed to use the bathroom that aligns with their gender identity.
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If Trump undid all these executive orders and actions, he would effectively eliminate nondiscrimination protections for millions of LGBTQ people employed by the federal government and contractors, as well as thousands of trans students in public schools.
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Although the high court didn't rule on his central arguments — that Phillips has a constitutional right to sidestep nondiscrimination laws because of his religious objections — Phillips and his lawyers have been emboldened to go on the offensive.
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In issuing their decision, the court ruled solely on the basis that Trump's order violated the Immigration and Nationality Act's nondiscrimination provision — and that the president "lacks independent constitutional authority to issue the Proclamation" under current circumstances.
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Although Utah became the first Republican-controlled state to pass a statewide nondiscrimination ordinance in 28860, a bill that passed with the church's blessing, there are extremely few supports in place for LGBTQ youth across the state.
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On the state level, transgender "bathroom bills" aren't gaining much traction since the defeat of North Carolina's HB2 — but some state legislatures are now considering bills that would prevent cities and local councils from having nondiscrimination ordinances.
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In 2016, for example, Charlotte became a battleground for transgender rights, after the state's legislature — then led by a Republican governor — overturned Charlotte's nondiscrimination law allowing people to use the bathroom that aligns with their gender identity.
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It also stripped local municipalities of the ability to enact nondiscrimination ordinances encompassing gender identity or sexual orientation, as well as the ability of municipalities to establish a minimum wage or provide workplace protections for government workers.
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After Charlotte passed a nondiscrimination ordinance that included sexual orientation and gender identity, state officials focused on the bathroom aspect — the law allowed trans people to use the bathroom for their gender identity — to criticize the law.
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" The court ruled that a woman in a hijab could not deliver "the message of tolerance, respect for others and, above all, equality and nondiscrimination that all teachers in a democratic society must convey to their pupils.
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Statewide laws that repeal municipal nondiscrimination ordinances or that legalize anti-LGBT discrimination in health care can make LGBT people feel unsafe in public restrooms, in a therapist's office, or while seeking to access other basic services.
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"The Trump-Pence administration's latest attack threatens to undermine crucial nondiscrimination protections for L.G.B.T.Q. people provided for under the Affordable Care Act," David Stacy, the government affairs director for the Human Rights Campaign, said in a statement.
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Already, anti-abortion activists in Indiana hope that one of their laws, which gave a fetus nondiscrimination protections but was struck down in federal appeals court earlier this year, may be the one to challenge Roe v.
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James Parrish, director of the Virginia Values Coalition, says bringing nondiscrimination protections to other Southern states is critical because research shows LGBTQ people are more likely to live in the South than anywhere else in the country.
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Some vetting is permitted by Airbnb's nondiscrimination policy, which says hosts can decline to rent based on factors that are not prohibited by law — so my rejection of those planning to have loud parties fits the bill.
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Nevertheless, the key to the astonishing success and international superiority of the American university, particularly in science and engineering, has been its resilient commitment to freedom and nondiscrimination, and its respect for truth, no matter how uncomfortable.
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Ban on source-of-income discrimination Bernie will strengthen the Fair Housing Act and implement a Section 103 nondiscrimination law, so that landlords can no longer discriminate against low-income families based on their source of income.
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On the same day, the Mississippi Senate passed a religious freedom bill that explicitly allows anti-LGBTQ discrimination — although the state's nondiscrimination laws are already so bad that anti-LGBTQ discrimination is already totally legal in Mississippi.
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But as PolitiFact reported, none of the examples cited in the US happened after a city or state passed a nondiscrimination law or otherwise let trans people use the bathroom or locker room for their gender identity.
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The statute blocks municipal nondiscrimination laws that protect LGBTQ people in the workplace, housing, and other settings, and it bans transgender people from using the bathroom that aligns with their gender identity in schools and government buildings.
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The law, which also banned local nondiscrimination laws that include sexual orientation and gender identity, has led to a tremendous backlash, costing North Carolina jobs after PayPal and Deutsche Bank, among others, pulled business expansions from the state.
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In addition to not wanting to follow the nondiscrimination policy, Rodgers apparently "openly said that he does not think gays should be allowed in 'his Christian group,'" according to a commenter on OutSports who was at the meeting.
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I have no doubt that some cisgender gay and lesbian white people, with their local nondiscrimination protections and their ability to marry their partners, have had all their needs met by the achievements of the gay rights movement.
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In fact, there are still no federal nondiscrimination protections for LGBTQ people — in other words, LGBTQ people in 30 states can be fired from their jobs or evicted from their homes for their sexual orientation or gender identity.
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" Meanwhile, a source close to the star told PEOPLE on Wednesday that Jenner, who has been an advocate of nondiscrimination legislation, sees the event as an "an opportunity to represent and defend the LGBTQ community within the party.
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Between the lines: The formal policy would come from the Health and Human Services Department's Office of Civil Rights — which has been at the forefront of Trump's broader effort to accommodate religious organizations and roll back nondiscrimination rules.
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Washington (CNN)North Carolina's governor on Wednesday signed a controversial bill blocking cities from allowing transgender individuals to use public bathrooms for the sex they identify as -- as well as restricting cities from passing nondiscrimination laws more broadly.
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They then banned all local nondiscrimination ordinances that include sexual orientation and gender identity from the state, on top of prohibiting trans people from using the bathroom for their gender identity in schools and other state government buildings.
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The trouble had started in March, a few weeks after Charlotte's City Council revised its existing nondiscrimination ordinance to ensure businesses and public facilities such as hotels, restaurants and taxis couldn't discriminate against gay, lesbian or transgender customers.
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North Carolina's law does two things: It bans local nondiscrimination laws that include sexual orientation and gender identity, and forces transgender people to use the bathrooms in schools and government buildings that don't align with their gender identity.
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Legislation that Ms. Slaughter proposed in 21983, and for which she pressed repeatedly, was finally enacted in 21986 as the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act, aimed at banning discrimination by employers and insurers based on a person's genetic information.
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"We have seen the ADF launch similar lawsuits across the country that target nondiscrimination laws and civil rights agencies, and this broad lawsuit they filed on behalf of Jack Phillips reads as more of the same," Ramos said.
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But in a series of 2013 lawsuits against companies, including Honeywell International Inc, the EEOC said requests for medical information related to incentive-based wellness programs violated the Americans with Disabilities Act or the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act.
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Proposition 1 sought to repeal the city's nondiscrimination ordinance, which allows people to use public restrooms, locker rooms and dressing rooms consistent with their gender and prohibits employment and public accommodation discrimination against transgender and gender nonconforming people.
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In a joint letter, the top civil rights officials from the Justice Department and the Education Department rejected the Obama administration's position that nondiscrimination laws require schools to allow transgender students to use the bathrooms of their choice.
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More practically, Foy said, the amendment is essential for legal protections, in addition to the other nondiscrimination laws already in place, and would allow women more likely to prevail in legal cases of sexual assault and workplace harassment.
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The nine states lacking nondiscrimination laws and their 11 finalist metro areas are Florida (Miami), Georgia (Atlanta), Indiana (Indianapolis), North Carolina (Raleigh), Ohio (Columbus), Pennsylvania (Philadelphia and Pittsburgh), Tennessee (Nashville), Texas (Austin and Dallas) and Virginia (Northern Virginia).
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Curiously, in covering this effort, USA Today published a map highlighting cities and states that should be out of contention, yet added a footnote about Philadelphia and Pittsburgh which both offer nondiscrimination protections although their state does not.
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Many instead believe strongly in corporate engagement, by urging CEOs and senior executives to meet with elected officials, to speak out and to give financial support to civil rights groups advocating for equality and nondiscrimination under the law.
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" According to the summary, "Employers with 15 or more employees are required to adopt, maintain, and periodically review a comprehensive harassment and nondiscrimination policy, which will establish policies and procedures to prevent and respond to discrimination and harassment.
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The new law repeals the bathroom bill but still leaves bathroom regulation under the control of the legislature; more importantly, it prevents local governments from passing or modifying their own nondiscrimination ordinances like the Charlotte measure that prompted HB2.
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The criteria for evaluation included the presence of nondiscrimination laws, municipal employment policies such as transgender-inclusive insurance coverage, inclusiveness of city services, access to law enforcement resources such as hate crimes reporting, and municipal leadership on equality issues.
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He was outraged because Charlotte had struck a deal with state officials: The city repealed its "nondiscrimination ordinance" allowing transgender people to use the bathrooms they choose; in exchange, lawmakers were supposed to repeal the state's opposing bathroom law.
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The Trump administration on Friday unveiled its long-expected proposal to reverse health care protections for transgender people and those who've had abortions, issuing a draft rule that seeks to rescind nondiscrimination policies established under the Affordable Care Act.
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He argues that the nondiscrimination law's enforcement, which lacks an exemption for religious shopkeepers, fails a legal standard of being generally applicable and neutral — instead, he alleges, the state "targets, shows hostility toward, and discriminates" against people of faith.
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McCrory tweeted Wednesday night that he believed the legislation -- which blocks cities from allowing transgender individuals to use public bathrooms for the sex they identify as, as well as more broadly restricting cities from passing nondiscrimination laws -- was needed.
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In addition to cases over wedding cakes (addressing religious liberty and nondiscrimination laws) and elections (from partisan gerrymandering to racial gerrymandering) the court has now agreed to hear arguments this spring over Trump's third attempt at his travel ban.
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Just last month, a coalition of human rights and technology groups came together to put out a document titled The Toronto Declaration that calls for governments and tech companies to ensure AI respects basic principles of equality and nondiscrimination.
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But in a series of 2013 lawsuits against companies, including Honeywell International Inc, the EEOC said a request for medical information related to any program offering incentives violated the Americans with Disabilities Act or the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act.
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"These are very real and significant limits to the effectiveness of the FTC's tools in policing nondiscrimination on networks and protecting competition," said Terrell McSweeny, the FTC's lone Democratic member, during a hearing on Capitol Hill earlier this month.
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The settlement also requires inclusion of gender identity in the district's nondiscrimination practices and an undisclosed monetary payment, according to a statement from the Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund, which brought the suit on behalf of the students.
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And for a couple of years now, the Department of Education has made it clear that it considers gender identity as part of a protected class under Title IX, which is the federal nondiscrimination law that applies to schools.
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But right now the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) prohibits employers from requiring employees to take medical exams unless they're voluntary, and the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act (GINA) prevents employers from requesting genetic information from employees and their families.
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The "No" camp has already floated proposals to allow government officials to opt out of performing same-sex marriages and exempt business owners and service providers from nondiscrimination laws if they do not want to serve same-sex couples.
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In response to such rampant discrimination, the Department of Health and Human Services finalized wording on the Nondiscrimination in Health Programs and Activities section of the Affordable Care Act in May, banning discrimination on the basis of gender identity.
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Executive orders from Obama and former President Bill Clinton provided some relief against the void of nondiscrimination laws for LGBTQ people: Those orders collectively banned federal employers, agencies, and contractors from discriminating based on sexual orientation and gender identity.
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"This is the first time of the 16 years I've been in the general assembly that we've had a Democratic majority, so I knew the time was right to attempt to [pass] a comprehensive nondiscrimination bill," Ebbin tells Vox.
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Under the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act, companies cannot ask employees to take gene tests and cannot use any such results in employment decisions; insurers are not permitted to require gene tests or to use the results in coverage decisions.
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The senators also want to know more about the relationship between ICE and CoreCivic when it comes to ensuring the latter is complying with its contractual obligations, and whether DHS provides nondiscrimination or anti-harassment training to federal contractors.
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But even before the new law was passed, this type of anti-LGBTQ discrimination was entirely legal in the state, because neither Mississippi nor any municipality in the state included sexual orientation or gender identity in its nondiscrimination protections.
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The move came in response to such a provision approved last month in Charlotte, the state's largest city, as part of an expanded nondiscrimination ordinance that also added protections for marital and familial status, sexual orientation, gender expression and gender identity.
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Deere had previously served as a spokesperson in the Arkansas attorney general's office when it asked courts to block same-sex parents from listing both of their names on a child's birth certificate and to strike down Fayetteville's LGBTQ nondiscrimination ordinance.
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"Judge Kavanaugh's record on reproductive rights, the right to privacy, and religious liberty indicates a potent combination of ideological views that could significantly and unnecessarily reshape constitutional doctrine and nondiscrimination protections as they apply to LGBTQ persons," the group concluded.
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In a letter sent to universities and colleges in April 2011, the Office of Civil Rights division of the Department of Education discussed the obligations schools have to investigate claims and listed the following guidelines: -- Disseminate a notice of nondiscrimination.
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He opposes LGBTQ issues like same-sex marriage and nondiscrimination laws, but also speculated that perhaps the suspect in the Planned Parenthood shooting was a "transgendered leftist activist" (an allegation that had more to do with errors in public records).
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"In the absence of strong antitrust enforcement and nondiscrimination rules, we know how AT&T will use acquisitions like this," said Matt Wood, policy director of advocacy group Free Press, in a statement on Friday before the deal was reportedly reached.
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While the new law overturns HB2's restrictions on public bathrooms, it also prohibits local governments from passing nondiscrimination laws relating to private employment or public accommodation — meaning that discriminatory legislation still exists for gender non-conforming people in North Carolina.
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The order expanded state employment policy to include sexual orientation and gender identify, affirming the ability of local government and businesses to implement their own nondiscrimination policies, but it left the new mandate intact for transgender people using public restrooms.
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At the Department of Education, Catherine E. Lhamon, 44, a former civil rights litigator who runs the agency's Office of Civil Rights — and has made aggressive use of a federal nondiscrimination law known as Title IX — was taking the lead.
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The decision means that the Supreme Court won't hear — or rule on — a case involving trans rights and nondiscrimination protections for now, leaving trans people across much of the country without explicit legal protections from discrimination for the time being.
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The legislation came in response to such a provision approved last month in Charlotte, the state's largest city, as part of an expanded nondiscrimination ordinance that also added protections for marital and familial status, sexual orientation, gender expression and gender identity.
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In a world where marriage equality is the law of the land and LGBTQ people can serve openly in the military, the gap in nondiscrimination laws is treated by advocacy groups as the big remaining civil rights battle for LGBTQ people.
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Romania, where homosexuality was legalized in 2001, ranks 25th out of 28 European Union members on issues like equality, nondiscrimination and legal recognition for L.G.B.T. people, according to ILGA-Europe, a Brussels-based advocacy group for gay and transgender rights.
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"It just feels like we're constantly fighting over toll roads, over nondiscrimination ordinances, over Black Lives Matter, over immigrants' rights, over a lot of things, and I know that we'll continue to have fights," said Julie Eiselt, the mayor pro tem.
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The most prominent of these two cases was Masterpiece Cakeshop, which argued that state nondiscrimination provisions requiring a cake baker to create a custom cake for a same-sex wedding forced the baker to produce artistic expression with which he disagreed.
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But in August 2016, a federal court in Michigan ruled that the federal RFRA can be used to bypass, to some extent, nondiscrimination protections for a fired transgender employee — suggesting that RFRAs can be used to allow discrimination against LGBTQ people.
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Although legal experts cautioned that the law probably would not allow anti-LGBTQ discrimination and that the real problem is Indiana has no nondiscrimination laws protecting LGBTQ people, the law inspired a massive backlash — protests, editorials in opposition, and business boycotts.
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But it also continues to prohibit local governments from passing nondiscrimination laws until December 23, 2020, so cities like Charlotte over the next three years still won't be able to pass a new law that bans discrimination against LGBTQ people.
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While the US currently leads Cuba in this regard, Mike Pence, Trump's Vice President has made it clear he plans to overturn same-sex marriage rights and remove the laws in the US that offer nondiscrimination protection to LGBTQ citizens.
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When the Department of Health and Human Services circulates an anti-transgender memo, social media is aflame for days; by comparison, when New Hampshire's Republican governor signs a transgender nondiscrimination bill that passed with bipartisan support, we barely bat an eye.
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But it also continues to prohibit local governments from passing nondiscrimination laws until December 1, 2020, so cities like Charlotte over the next three years still won't be able to pass a new law that bans discrimination against LGBTQ people.
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A Supreme Court ruling in favor of Craig and Mullins would mean that when a local, state, or federal body enacts a nondiscrimination law for LGBTQ people, there would be no loopholes for people like Phillips to get around those laws.
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And the faulty logic behind it persists despite multiple investigations that have found zero evidence of increased incidents of sexual assault or other public safety concerns when trans people are granted legal nondiscrimination protections to use whichever bathroom they are most comfortable with.
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What's worse, they did this with an issue that has long troubled LGBTQ advocates: the bathroom myth, or the idea that men will take advantage of nondiscrimination laws to claim they're women, use women's bathrooms, and sexually assault women in those bathrooms.
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In 103, the county decided there was "no need" for its nondiscrimination policy to include gender identity and sexual orientation; one of the two local justices of the peace who perform courthouse weddings still refuses to perform them for sex-same couples.
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In another case — linked with Kennedy's legacy on gay rights — the court again punted, this time on the issue of whether religious opposition to same-sex couples' marriages should exempt people and businesses from following public accommodation nondiscrimination laws generally applicable to all.
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A nondiscrimination ordinance passed by lawmakers in Charlotte, North Carolina, earlier this year was overridden by state legislators who in turn passed the controversial "bathroom bill" mandating transgender residents use the bathroom in accordance with their biological sex rather than their gender identity.
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The all-female club said in a statement that the move is linked to the university administration's efforts to penalize discriminatory social clubs, noting that the club is acting "in good faith with Harvard's social organization and nondiscrimination policies," the Harvard Crimson reported.
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Roy Cooper and GOP legislative leaders have crafted a compromise: The state bathroom regulations go, but there will be a moratorium on municipal nondiscrimination statutes until 2020 and no statewide ban on employment discrimination on the basis of gender identity or sexual orientation.
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"When you hear [that] any day now that administration is trying to roll back the nondiscrimination protections under the Affordable Care Act (ACA), you should know that it's only a proposal, not the law, and it might not go through," Lewis says.
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He earned degrees in history and political science from American universities, went on to work on several local political campaigns, and eventually landed a job in the Buffalo office of the New York Department of Transportation, enforcing nondiscrimination requirements among state contractors.
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Even though the freedom to marry is legal across the country, in over 30 states LGBT Americans aren't protected comprehensively by nondiscrimination laws, and there is no federal law explicitly protecting anyone from discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity.
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The hastily passed bill in North Carolina, which said people must use public restrooms based on the gender on their birth certificate and prohibited local governments from passing nondiscrimination ordinances, has been roundly condemned by corporate leaders, civil rights groups and religious leaders.
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Although Trump and his administration's rhetoric and actions are on organizers' minds, the point of the march is broader — addressing nondiscrimination laws, hate crimes (including murders of transgender people), disparities in the criminal justice system, and the unique challenges of LGBTQ immigrants.
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PhotoQuest via Getty Images Nondiscrimination protections for LGBTQ people build on existing federal and state laws — most notably the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Fair Housing Act, which protect people from discrimination based on their race, color, national origin, religion, and sex.
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But many legal experts at the time said the laws shouldn't and couldn't be used to discriminate against LGBTQ people, arguing that governments have a compelling interest to protect people from discrimination and, therefore, can violate some people's religious freedoms through nondiscrimination statutes.
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The drafted executive order — which, again, the White House hasn't verified — provides a model for how the Obama and Clinton nondiscrimination orders could be weakened without an explicit repeal: The important thing here isn't whether the drafted order is under real consideration.
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A 2019 survey conducted by the independent polling firm Mason-Dixon showed that 503 percent of Virginia Republicans supported an "update [to] Virginia's nondiscrimination laws to protect gay and transgender people from discrimination in employment" while just 22 percent opposed such a measure.
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The rule would roll back an Obama-era regulation that went into effect days before he left office in 2017 that inserted nondiscrimination language on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity when determining the recipients of grants from the agency.
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The movement not only loses its way, but loses valuable allies who are committed to fighting racism yet will not compromise these values of equality and nondiscrimination by aligning with anti-Semitic forces coronating terrorists as "resistance" elements while accusing Israel of genocide.
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Earlier this year, McCrory and state Republicans passed a law that overturned and banned local nondiscrimination protections that legally protect LGBTQ people from discrimination and prohibited transgender people from using the bathroom that aligns with their gender identity in schools and government buildings.
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During the depths of the Great Depression, with Hattiesburg relying on charitable donations to feed people, the mayor issued an ultimatum to the Red Cross: Forgo its nondiscrimination policy and stop serving African-Americans, or else vacate its offices at City Hall.
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While these measures may have enabled more discrimination by overturning municipal nondiscrimination laws, the outcry generally missed that this type of discrimination was already legal in most places in these states before they considered or passed any of their anti-LGBTQ measures.
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The bathroom issue originated from the broader debate over nondiscrimination laws for LGBTQ people, which would protect people from discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity in the workplace, housing, and public accommodations (restaurants, hotels, and other places that serve the public).
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In some places like Houston, Texas and Charlotte, North Carolina, we've won nondiscrimination protections, only to have the law repealed; in other states, there are legislators trying to pass anti-LGBT bills that make it easier to discriminate against gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender people.
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Experts from 12 states with legal nondiscrimination protections for LGBTQ people, which typically enable trans people to use the bathroom for their gender identity, told Media Matters that they don't know of a single reported instance of sexual assaults in bathrooms stemming from the laws.
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The Employment Nondiscrimination Act — which is the bill that I helped draft in 1993 and has been pending for two decades in Congress until it was overtaken by the Equality Act — should have been completely unnecessary if the 1964 act had been correctly applied.
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But there is zero evidence this actually happens — and none of the states or US jurisdictions that have passed laws protecting trans kids in bathrooms have reported any incidents along the lines of what North Carolina and other opponents of LGBTQ nondiscrimination protections claim.
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Experts from 12 states with legal nondiscrimination protections for LGBTQ people, which typically enable trans people to use the bathroom for their gender identity, told Media Matters that they don't know of a single reported instance of sexual assault in bathrooms stemming from the laws.
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One reason that 401(k) plans are often considered complex and confusing is a government requirement that subjects them to nondiscrimination and other tests that confirm a 401(k) plan benefits all enrolled employees, not just a niche group of owners or highly compensated employees.
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A school's obligation under federal law "to ensure nondiscrimination on the basis of sex requires schools to provide transgender students equal access to educational programs and activities even in circumstances in which other students, parents, or community members raise objections or concerns," the letter states.
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Trump will participate in the swearing-in of Gina Haspel as CIA director at the agency in Langley, Va. At the White House, the president will sign Senate Joint Resolution 57, which effectively rescinds 2013 Consumer Financial Protection Bureau auto-lending guidance promoting nondiscrimination.
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"Since taking office, President Trump has been the bully-in-chief, with egregious attacks including ongoing efforts to ban transgender soldiers from openly serving in the military and revoking nondiscrimination protections for transgender youths at school," Stokes said in a statement to NBC News.
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It does not simply say that the law on religious discrimination does not apply; it says that the whole body of nondiscrimination law, including the new rules on sexual orientation and gender identity, "shall not apply" to religious non-profits hiring adherents of their faith.
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So an employer in Indianapolis, which protects LGBTQ people in its local nondiscrimination law, could try to say that the local civil rights law illegally violates his RFRA-protected right to discriminate against LGBTQ people, and therefore justify firing an employee over his sexual orientation.
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On the other side, opponents argue that LGBTQ nondiscrimination protections aren't included in existing federal civil rights laws, because the authors of federal civil rights laws never believed or intended that bans on sex discrimination also ban discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity.
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" Bitzer added that this was so even though the policy landscape in North Carolina remained ambiguous: The new law, he said, "certainly took H.B. 2 off the books, but it didn't necessarily take off the policies, considering that the state still controls nondiscrimination policy.
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Other historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) that have nondiscrimination policies addressing gender identity include Tuskegee University in Alabama, Howard University in Washington, Florida A&M University, Southern University and A&M College in Louisiana, North Carolina Central University and Morgan State University in Maryland.
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Specifically, they claim that letting trans people use the bathroom or locker room for their gender identity, as some nondiscrimination laws do, will allow men to disguise themselves as trans women to go into women's bathrooms or locker rooms and sexually assault and harass women.
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In a press release from this past Tuesday, school district officials insist that is not the reason for her suspension, stating: … concerns regarding Ms. Bailey are not about her request to have our nondiscrimination policies reviewed and/or revised with regard to LGBTQ rights.
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That report recommended a law like the ADA and said that people with disabilities face discrimination in all aspects of life, and it should be addressed just as nondiscrimination laws for people of different gender, people of different race and color, people of different religious persuasions.
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In fact, somewhat oddly, HRC stated that Kavanaugh's "only reference to nondiscrimination principles" in the speeches was a mention of affirmative action law, but dropped Kavanaugh's discussion in the Rehnquist speech of slavery as the "greatest flaw" in the Constitution to a footnote in its report.
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What we do know, Pizer says, is that the point of FADA is to make it a "religious right" to discriminate against workers, tenants, patients, and other people who are currently protected in various ways by federal laws, rules, and nondiscrimination terms of federal contracts and grants.
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Bafflingly, he called the Employment Nondiscrimination Act, a bill proposed in 2013 that would make it a crime for an employer to discriminate against an employee based on the employee's sexual orientation or gender identity, a "segregation law" when he was running for his congressional seat.
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Tuesday's edition of the Federal Register contains news rules from the Department of Agriculture for state agencies when verifying an applicant's eligibility for food stamps, proposed updates from the Department of Labor to nondiscrimination regulations and new efficiency standards for pumps from the Department of Energy.
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Over the last decade, Mr. McAdams, a lawyer and a seventh-generation Utahn, has tried to position himself as a bridge between these disparate camps, and he is well known for negotiating a deal among church members, Republicans and the gay community on a nondiscrimination ordinance.
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They included a ban on so-called "conversion therapy" — the debunked practice of trying to change sexual orientation or gender identity — as well as the passage of the Gender Expression Nondiscrimination Act, or Genda, which prohibits discrimination based on "gender identity or expression" by employers and others.
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But North Carolina lawmakers had, until Thursday's move to pass a partial repeal, by and large stood their ground — even after McCrory's loss to Cooper in the November election, and after Charlotte repealed its nondiscrimination statute in late 2016 to try to placate a repeal deal.
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A new poll of more than 2,000 US adults, conducted in February by the Public Religion Research Institute, reached very clear conclusions: Across the board, a majority of US adults are supportive of LGBTQ rights — whether it's marriage, nondiscrimination laws, or bathroom access for transgender people.
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The limits of consumer protectionIn rolling back current net neutrality protections, Chairman Pai has floated the idea of replacing the nondiscrimination requirements on broadband providers with voluntary commitments, which is a little like replacing a fence with solemn promises from the foxes to leave the chickens alone.
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Dan Patrick, a Republican, proposed legislation that would require transgender people to use bathrooms in government buildings and public schools and universities based on their "biological sex," overriding any local rules to the contrary (potentially including a nondiscrimination ordinance that, the committee spokeswoman noted, San Antonio has).
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This is just one of many manifestations of a paradox Muslims, especially those of us living in the West, face in the modern world: They are threatened by Islamophobic forces against which they need the protections offered by liberalism — freedom of speech, freedom of religion, nondiscrimination.
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Just this week, a charter school in St. Paul, Minnesota, also agreed to change its nondiscrimination policy to accommodate transgender students, after parents of a 5-year-old girl sued them for failing to teach other students that it's unacceptable to bully someone over their gender identity.
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Coming on the heels of the transgender military ban, the proposed rule removes protections against gender-identity discrimination from the nondiscrimination provision of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), which bans sex discrimination in federally funded health care (after a final rule implemented in 2016 explicitly included gender identity).
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MB: Among the milestones I would like to see: Achieving nationwide nondiscrimination protections for LGBTQ people in jobs; housing; public accommodations; federal funding, both in the Courts and in the U.S. Congress; and an end to de jure discrimination against LGBTQ people, including ending the transgender military ban.
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When Congress passed the Affordable Care Act in 2010, lawmakers included Section 1557 to establish nondiscrimination protections in health care services and insurance by referring to Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 and other civil rights laws — but it left the specifics up to future rule-making.
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In recent months, Trump has pushed to end health care nondiscrimination protections for those who have had abortions, moved to allow health care workers with a moral objection to abortion to refuse to perform the procedure, and pulled US funding from international aid groups that promote or perform abortions.
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While their arguments have been anchored around refusing service to LGBT people or denying contraception coverage to women, their broader arguments raise concerns from critics they will rip loopholes into nondiscrimination policies across the board, potentially opening the door to racial discrimination in the name of religion, for example.
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The list of attacks on LGBTQ rights grows longer by the day, with Trump administration rolling back federal contractor nondiscrimination rules for both sexual orientation and gender identity, as well as defunding fetal tissue research, which is a vital component to the discovery of a cure for HIV/AIDS.
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While the federal Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act stops insurers from using or requiring people to disclose any information learned from at-home genetic test kits before offering or deciding the cost of health insurance, that rule does not apply for long-term insurance policies, Kaiser Health Network reports.
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Activist plans new effort New York delegate Annie Dickerson said the GOP Platform Committee has been resisting an obvious trend in the country toward gay rights, calling same-sex marriage "settled law," saying it is only a matter of time before federal nondiscrimination statutes protecting LGBT rights are enacted.
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The EEOC adopted rules in 2016 supported by business groups that allowed employers to offer workers insurance discounts and other incentives to participate in wellness programs without violating the Americans with Disabilities Act and the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act, which bar employers from requesting medical information from workers.
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Colorado Civil Rights Commission – United States Supreme Court The Supreme Court ruled that showing "hostility" to religious people in applying nondiscrimination laws violates the First Amendment's free exercise clause, but it left unresolved the larger question about whether and when religious people could refuse to serve same-sex couples.
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The guidance advises agencies to share information about housing, health services or other emergency-related services and nondiscrimination rights with diverse racial, ethnic and limited-English proficient populations and engage with and seek input from those communities on how best to tailor emergency planning, response and recovery efforts.
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At the same time, even though Jews have never been subject to formalized legal discrimination in America, Jewish people were massively overrepresented in the ranks of white supporters of the civil rights movement — recognizing a shared interest in promoting an American civic identity and strong culture of nondiscrimination.
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After the losses in Houston and North Carolina, they have gone back to the drawing board to try to devise a way not just to stop the spread of anti-trans bathroom policies but also to get more cities and states to pass nondiscrimination protections for LGBTQ people.
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Whatever the nine cisgender Supreme Court justices decide will have a lasting effect on the lives of every trans person in the US. If Stephens gets a favorable decision from the conservative-leaning court, trans people will have explicit nondiscrimination protections under federal law for the first time in history.
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At times, not even local or state nondiscrimination laws are enough to deter employees at public and private accommodations from policing patrons' genders and ejecting them from the premises if they're picked out for not meeting arbitrary standards for what a man or a woman is "supposed" to look like.
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The new law keeps in place provisions of the original bill that put the legislature, rather than local governments, in charge of regulating bathroom access; the new law also prevents local governments from passing or amending their own nondiscrimination ordinances relating to private employment and public accommodation until December 2020.
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Their proposed legislation would have several effects: repeal House Bill 2; leave state legislators in charge of policy over multi-stall restrooms; and put a temporary halt on local governments passing nondiscrimination ordinances until 2020, something they said would allow time for ongoing court cases about transgender issues to play out.
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The attack takes significant liberties with the facts, making it appear as if nondiscrimination laws that include gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people, which Mr. Beshear supports, would open the door for boys to join girls' sports leagues just because they want a competitive advantage, not because they are transitioning genders.
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It was never clear if the bill would actually allow discrimination against LGBTQ people, but both proponents and critics of the measure said it would — specifically, they claimed the bill would allow businesses to ignore local nondiscrimination laws and discriminate against people based on their sexual orientation and gender identity.
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Dale – United States Supreme Court The Supreme Court ruled that New Jersey could not enforce its nondiscrimination laws to force the Boy Scouts to allow gay scoutmasters in the state — reversing a lower-court decision that had ruled in favor of allowing James Dale to serve as an assistant scoutmaster.
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In February 2016, the Charlotte City Council passed a nondiscrimination ordinance — supported by Ms. Lyles and Ms. Roberts — that prompted the Republican-dominated state Legislature to pass a law that required people in publicly owned buildings to use the restroom that corresponded with the gender listed on their birth certificates.
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"The City believes that the ruling from the Third Circuit affirming the City's ability to uphold nondiscrimination policies was correct and will now prepare to demonstrate this to the U.S. Supreme Court," city Solicitor Marcel S. Pratt said in a statement after the court agreed to take up the case.
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Thankfully, a broad consensus of religious Americans disagree with Trump -- 80% of Jews, 72% of Hispanic Catholics, 71% of white Catholics, 71% of white mainline Protestants, 70% of Mormons and even 54% of white evangelical Protestants support nondiscrimination protections for LGBT people, according to a 2018 Public Religion Research Institute survey.
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"I'm not sure the Trump administration appreciates that it addresses nondiscrimination for all kinds of speech, as much for Breitbart and Newsmax as it is for MSNBC and CNN," referring to news sources that are staunch backers of the Trump administration and ones often seen by Republicans as harsh critics.
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On March 23, 2016, the legislature introduced, it passed, and McCrory signed into law a measure that bans all local nondiscrimination ordinances that include sexual orientation and gender identity, and effectively prohibits trans people from using the bathroom and locker rooms for their gender identity in schools and public buildings.
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The Southern strategy gave way to administrations that passed "tough on crime" laws, weakened the enforcement of civil rights laws, enacted legislation that suppresses voters, opposed same-sex marriage and nondiscrimination laws that legally protect LGBTQ people, and took on other actions that targeted or disproportionately hurt minority Americans and women.
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Some religious conservatives have latched onto this myth to oppose laws that ban discrimination against sexual orientation and gender identity in the workplace, housing, public accommodations, and education — particularly after a big win in Houston, where voters struck down a local nondiscrimination law after opponents of the ordinance trumpeted the bathroom myth.
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The decision to widen health coverage was to comply with federal government rules about nondiscrimination against same-sex partners, while at the same time avoiding language on same-sex partnerships, which go against Church teachings that marriage can only be between a man and a woman, said David Maluchnik, spokesman for the Conference.
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That type of conflict, she said, is what led legislators to require religious exemptions in the Utah civil rights law she helped author — and she expects religious exemptions will be necessary to expand nondiscrimination protections in more conservative states that aren't as supportive of same-sex marriage or LGBTQ rights in general.
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To prevent queer and trans people from being turned away from healthcare providers or hospitals during the coronavirus outbreak, nearly a dozen U.S. senators, including Bob Menendez, Chuck Schumer, Elizabeth Warren, and Kamala Harris, wrote a letter on Thursday calling on the federal government to reverse its rollback of LGBTQ nondiscrimination protections.
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"Changing federal nondiscrimination rules to allow child-placing agencies to reduce the pool of qualified potential foster and adoptive parents runs counter to the cardinal rule of child welfare: that the best interests of children in care must come first," Denise Brogan-Kator, the group's chief policy officer, said in a statement Friday.
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In 265 alone, we've seen headlines about a state legislature passing an anti-trans "bathroom bill," increased gay bashings in metropolitan areas like Dallas, Texas, politicians debating the importance of including religious exemptions in nondiscrimination ordinances, and Republican presidential candidates repeatedly questioning the legitimacy of full marriage rights for same-sex couples.
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Several weeks ago, the Trump administration announced a proposed rule that would roll back gender identity nondiscrimination protections in the Affordable Care Act, which essentially banned discrimination against trans people throughout the US. The Trump rollback was perhaps the most devastating attack on the trans community since he took office in early 2017.
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In front of the School Board, she twice publicly rebutted speeches from Delegate Bob Marshall—a 25-year incumbent known for his conservative and often controversial anti-LGBTQ views, and her rival in the current race—when he opposed a proposal to add gender identity and sexual orientation to the school system's nondiscrimination policy.
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"What the religious right is asking for is a new rule specific to same-sex couples that would not only affect same-sex couples but also carve a hole in nondiscrimination laws that could affect all communities," said Camilla Taylor, director of constitutional litigation at Lambda Legal, which supports civil rights for LGBT people.
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But although access to bathrooms is alone a big deal for trans people, this is also part of a much broader debate over LGBTQ and specifically trans rights — one in which bathrooms and locker rooms have gotten a lot of attention because of a myth often deployed by religious opponents of LGBTQ nondiscrimination protections.
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" The nation's largest LGBTQ civil rights organization announced its opposition to Kavanaugh last month, and in Tuesday's report said his record on reproductive rights, the right to privacy, and religious liberty "indicates a potent combination of ideological views that could significantly and unnecessarily reshape constitutional doctrine and nondiscrimination protections as they apply to LGBTQ persons.
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On Monday, the NCAA announced that it is moving seven of its championships from North Carolina, including the 220006 NCAA basketball tournament, because of the state's H.B. 2202 law that prevents local governments from passing nondiscrimination ordinances and, most infamously, prevents those individuals making gender transitions from using their preferred restroom in public locales.
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Katherine ClarkKatherine Marlea ClarkDemocratic lawmakers rip Carson over cuts to housing budget, policies Democratic candidates gear up for a dramatic Super Tuesday Democrats spar with DeVos at hearing, say Trump budget would 'privatize education' MORE (D-Mass.) asked the secretary if she would "guarantee" taxpayer money would only go to schools with nondiscrimination policies.
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And, as Dominic Holden wrote for BuzzFeed, opponents of LGBTQ rights are already seizing on their victory in Houston to fight nondiscrimination laws in other parts of the US. If the trend continues, and LGBTQ advocates don't find a way to defeat this line of attack, it could seriously hinder the LGBTQ movement in the next few years.
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"The proposed rule permits Shelter Providers to consider a range of factors in making such determinations, including privacy, safety, practical concerns, religious beliefs, any relevant considerations under civil rights and nondiscrimination authorities, the individual's sex as reflected in official government documents, as well as the gender which a person identifies with," says an abstract of the draft regulation.
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That's why Freedom for All Americans is launching the Transgender Freedom Project, a multiyear, national campaign to grow support for transgender equality by amplifying the stories of transgender Americans, developing messages that reach hearts and change minds, and equipping state campaigns with the proven tools and resources needed to win LGBT nondiscrimination protections in every community across America.
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Gregory T. Angelo, president of the Log Cabin Republicans, an advocacy group for gay Republicans, has said of Trump, "He is one of the best, if not the best, pro-gay Republican candidates to ever run for the presidency," and that Trump would do no harm on same-sex marriage, and has a "stand-out position" on nondiscrimination legislation.
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A 32-page report released today In a 32-page report authored by Laura Murphy, a former director of the ACLU Legislative Office, the company said it would make several moves, including adding a more detailed nondiscrimination policy for users, as well as creating a new team tasked with identifying and combating bias on the platform.
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In a 2015 policy, the state government announced broader access to education, health care, social security and nondiscrimination initiatives for trans people, like legal redress against parents for child abandonment or police officials in cases of violation of human rights Awareness and an understanding of the community are among the first steps in inclusivity, Sahai says.
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WTO -- World Trade Organization -- Trump has been frustrated by international trade rules the US accepts as a member of the WTO and his administration has written a draft bill, not yet introduced, that would seek to abandon key WTO principles on trade -- some of which promote nondiscrimination and fair competition -- and give him much more power.
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The uncertainty is why advocates want explicit legal protections for LGBTQ people: New state or federal laws that add sexual orientation and gender identity to nondiscrimination protections would remove any doubt about the reach of laws like the Civil Rights Act, Fair Housing Act, Title IX, and state statutes that prohibit sex discrimination in their public accommodations protections.
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Since North Carolina has no statewide nondiscrimination laws protecting LGBTQ people, it will continue to be legal across much of the state for an employer to fire someone, a landlord to evict someone, and a business to kick someone out or engage in other kinds of discrimination solely because of the person's sexual orientation or gender identity.
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State and local governments employ an estimated one million people who identify as L.G.B.T. Without funds for unions to sustain services and organizing, L.G.B.T. employees are at risk: In the 29 states lacking full protections against employment discrimination for sexual orientation and gender identity, a collective bargaining agreement with a nondiscrimination provision is often a worker's only refuge.
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"Unfortunately, CSS refused to consider qualified same-sex couples to become foster parents – even when these couples would be a safe, loving family for the child – and in doing so, CSS defied the City's nondiscrimination policy, as reflected in its original contract and reaffirmed in the most recent contract offered to all foster care providers," Pratt added.
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The Supreme Court could soon take cases that would determine critical issues for the LGBTQ community including whether our nation's nondiscrimination laws include protections for LGBTQ people; whether individuals, organizations, and businesses have a license to discriminate against LGBTQ people; and whether qualified transgender people can be excluded from serving in the military, simply because of who they are.
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The Supreme Court could rule in favor of Craig and Mullins and solidify the strength and reach of nondiscrimination laws, or it could rule in favor of Phillips and potentially create a massive loophole in civil rights laws — not just for sexual orientation, but potentially for any other category protected by these laws, including race, sex, and religion.
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Merkley detailing her support for the Equality Act on behalf of the Business Roundtable, an association of CEOs from the leading companies in the U.S. In the letter, Rometty argued that most American companies already included sexual orientation and gender identity in their nondiscrimination policies long ago, and now it is time for the federal government to do the same.
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The NBA is now among a large group of companies, organizations, and individuals, along with PayPal, Deutsche Bank, and even Bruce Springsteen, that have pulled business from the state over the law, which prohibits local nondiscrimination laws that include sexual orientation and gender identity, and bans transgender people from using the bathrooms that align with their gender identities in schools and government buildings.
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It also explicitly affirms the right of private businesses to establish their own policies governing the use of their restrooms and locker rooms, in addition to the rights of the private sector and local governments to establish nondiscrimination policies for their own employees The order did not, however, roll back the limits on which bathrooms transgender people are allowed to use.
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Details: He said that LGBTQ people fleeing violence from other countries based on their sexual orientation should be granted asylum in the U.S. Castro also said he would bring back Obama-era nondiscrimination policies for public housing and that his plan to give housing choice vouchers to those that earn less than 50% of their area's median income would address LGBTQ homelessness.
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"In this environment, if you're a company that doesn't care about nondiscrimination and not having sexual harassment in your company, and is unconcerned about climate change, you're going to start losing customers at some point," Obama said, adding that this doesn't mean just writing a check at the end of the year; it means building internal systems that prioritize supporting women, fighting discrimination, and paying fair wages.
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While equal bathroom access rages on as a national issue, several LGBTQ legal and advocacy groups, from the Gill Foundation to Freedom for All Americans to the National Center for Transgender Equality, have recently called for dropping public accommodations from a set of proposed LGBTQ nondiscrimination bills in states across the country, citing the difficulty in making an effective counterargument to conservative bathroom hysteria.
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Check out more videos from VICE: "For some reason, there are a lot of people who are totally onboard with nondiscrimination in housing, employment, and even public accommodations, like being served at restaurants and retail stores, but when the question of bathroom access is brought up, they are adamantly opposed to protecting a person's right to use the bathroom that best fits their gender identity," Davis said.
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With DeMint's guidance, he could bring in trusted conservatives who supported a Heritage agenda that included opening offshore drilling on federal lands; opposing mandatory labeling of genetically engineered food; reducing regulations on for-profit universities; revoking an Obama executive order on green-energy mandates for federal agencies; phasing out federal subsidies for housing; and opposing marriage equality and nondiscrimination protections based on sexual orientation and gender identity.
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"If the Court had taken the case, it would have been very significant because they would have been deciding a question that was not involved in the particular case on which no appellate court had issued a decision and would have been deciding whether the websites of ADA-covered businesses were subject to the effective communication and nondiscrimination requirements of the ADA," she said.
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Among the administration's efforts: banning trans troops from serving in the military, petitioning the Supreme Court to roll back employment protections under Title VII, proposing a rule to undo Affordable Care Act nondiscrimination protections for trans patients, allowing federally funded shelters to bar trans people from homeless shelters consistent with their gender identity, and requiring prisons to house trans prisoners according to their assigned sex at birth.
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" New York is also poised to pass a barrage of other bills in coming weeks that will place the state among the nation's most liberal, including plans on Tuesday to pass a pair of bills aimed at preventing so-called "conversion therapy" from being practiced on gay minors, and passing the Gender Expression Nondiscrimination Act (Genda), which prohibits discrimination based on "gender identity or expression.
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The two matters are separate, but the questions raised in the travel ban case — are the president's actions in this context reviewable, do they violate a nondiscrimination provision in the Immigration and Nationality Act, are they overly broad, and do they violate the Establishment Clause — are now questions the court will be answering in the context of the debate over the zero tolerance policy and its family-separation effects.
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Now, with the addition of Justice Neil Gorsuch to the high court, the reformulated nine-person bench is deep in its hearings for Roberts' 13th term leading the Supreme Court, and it is unclear how the court will resolve key questions about balancing religious liberty and nondiscrimination laws, the consideration of political and racial gerrymandering claims, the application of the Fourth Amendment in the "cloud" age, and more.
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The diversity-challenged Trump administration has pursued policies that are the opposite of what King supported -- from their explicit efforts to roll back voting rights, tax cuts that exacerbate income inequality, proposed cuts to social programs like food stamps, a possible rollback of nondiscrimination regulations for housing, crackdowns on nonwhite immigration and asylum seekers, pursuing policies that rein-in public sector unions while earning the praise of white nationalist groups.
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" Chad Griffin, president of HRC: "In a post-marriage world, when marriage equality has been brought to all 50 states in the country, the most outrageous situation has been created: Someone can get married at 10 am and on the same day [be] at risk of being fired from their job by noon and evicted from their home by 2, all because we have no explicit federal nondiscrimination protections.
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"I don't think it's too much of a leap to anticipate that a justice who is confirmed to the court to replace Justice Kennedy actually could result in a situation where we have a 5-4 decision on some very key issues, whether it's marriage protections or the tensions between religious beliefs and L.G.B.T. nondiscrimination protections or reproductive rights," said Ms. Long Simmons of the National L.G.B.T.Q. Task Force.
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Genetic tests have more serious employment implications for members of the military than the average office worker, said Frederick Bieber, an associate professor of pathology at Harvard Medical School, who served as an Army Reserve officer at the DNA Identification Lab in Rockville, Md. The Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act — known as GINA — prohibits discrimination by health insurers and employers based on the information that people carry in their genes.
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Since then, the group has worked to support progressive causes in the area, including passing the first citywide nondiscrimination ordinance in the entire state, and organizing a rally against Scott D. Rhodes, a California transplant who'd distributed racist propaganda at the local high school, torched hundreds of copies of the paper that covered him, and reportedly placed thousands of racist robocalls across the country in the lead-up to the 2018 election.
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We have made, I think, in this country' and I say this as someone who's practiced it at the NAACP Legal Defense Fund and was head of the Civil Rights Division and has been involved in one form or another in the questions of social and economic justice for my whole professional life, that we have made an uneasy, sometimes uneasy peace with the notion of nondiscrimination in America, much of it in my lifetime.
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Since Trump took office in 2017, his administration has: banned trans troops from serving in the military; petitioned the Supreme Court to roll back employment protections for LGBTQ workers under Title VII; proposed a rule to allow federal contractors to discriminate against LGBTQ employees; proposed a rule to undo Affordable Care Act nondiscrimination protections for trans patients; allowed federally funded shelters to bar trans people from facilities consistent with their gender identity; and required prisons to house trans prisoners according to their assigned sex at birth.
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Since President Donald Trump took office in 22018, his administration has: banned trans troops from serving in the military; petitioned the Supreme Court to roll back employment protections for LGBTQ workers under Title VII; proposed a rule to allow federal contractors to discriminate against LGBTQ employees; proposed a rule to undo Affordable Care Act nondiscrimination protections for trans patients; allowed federally funded shelters to bar trans people from facilities consistent with their gender identity; and required prisons to house trans prisoners according to their assigned sex at birth.
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And that's to say nothing of President Donald Trump's rainbow Make America Great Again hats, which his campaign has sold for $35 a pop while his administration continues its efforts to remove nondiscrimination protections for transgender people under the Affordable Care Act, allow homeless shelters to deny people access based on "privacy, safety, practical concerns, religious beliefs" (a policy that could affect the one in three transgender people who experience homelessness in their lifetimes, according to the National Center for Transgender Equality), and bar transgender troops from serving in the military.
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Health care: "Medicare for All Who Want It" as a pathway to Medicare for All Racial equality: Create a commission to propose reparations policies for Black Americans and close the racial wealth gap LGBTQ rights: Pass the Equality Act; reverse the ban on transgender military service; enforce the nondiscrimination provisions of the Affordable Care Act and key federal civil rights laws Climate change: Implement a Green New Deal with all available tools including a carbon tax-and-dividend for Americans, and major direct investment to build a 100% clean energy society Gun control: Raise the standard of gun protection and ownership to make all Americans safer Extremism: Increase federal resources for countering domestic terrorism and white supremacist violence Gerrymandering: Establish independent, statewide redistricting commissions Electoral college: A national popular vote to replace the Electoral College Political representation: True political representation for the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico Go deeper: Buttigieg's full list of proposals
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