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The Latest Updates
July 8, 2024 | Sam Lau
HRC Equality Votes PAC Blasts Release of 2024 GOP "Platform"
“Donald Trump and his MAGA followers aren’t fooling anyone."
July 3, 2024 | Aneesha Pappy
District Court Preliminarily Blocks Section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act, Preventing Enforcement of Non-Discrimination Healthcare Protections for LGBTQ+ Americans Nationwide
Without Section 1557’s clear protections in place, LGBTQ+ Americans are at risk of being discriminated against within an array of medical services, exacerbating healthcare inequities.
July 3, 2024 | Sam Lau
HRC President on Harmful Statement from Biden Administration: “Wrong on the science and wrong on the substance”
“Health care decisions for young people belong between a patient, their family, and their health care provider. Trans youth are no exception."
June 28, 2024 | HRC Staff
Donald Trump Shows He's More Dangerous Than Ever as HRC’s Kelley Robinson Joins President Biden at Stonewall
Robinson calls President Biden an “ironclad champion for LGBTQ+ rights”
June 27, 2024 | Aneesha Pappy
Supreme Court Dismisses Attempt to Enforce Idaho Abortion Ban Conflicting with Lifesaving Federal Protections for Pregnant People, Upholding Temporary Block, but Abortion Access Crisis Created by the Court Remains
Reproductive Rights are LGBTQ+ Rights: According to a Guttmacher report, more than 1 in 6 (17.1%) abortion patients in the US identify as LGBTQ+.
Through this decision, the Supreme Court…
June 27, 2024 | Brandon Wolf
Reality Check: Ahead of First 2024 Presidential Debate, Americans Fed Up With the MAGA Agenda of Division and Bullying
Super Majority of Americans support equality, concerned about MAGA attempts to divide the country
Majority of Americans trust President Biden and Democrats on LBGTQ+ issues
June 26, 2024 | Cullen Peele
Human Rights Campaign Applauds President Biden's Pardon of Soldiers Wrongfully Discharged for LGBTQ+ Identities
This morning, President Biden issued a pardon of LGBTQ+ soldiers wrongfully discharged over a 60-year period under a military policy that banned same-sex intimacy. For decades, LGBTQ+ service members were…
June 25, 2024 | Sam Lau
Guy Cecil to Serve as Chief Strategist for HRC’s Equality Votes PAC for 2024 Campaign; PAC Releases First Digital Ad Ahead of Presidential Debate
The ad, “At His Word,” uses Trump’s own statements to show the threat he’d pose to LGBTQ+ rights and more in a second term
June 24, 2024 | Aneesha Pappy
Human Rights Campaign Reacts to the Supreme Court Decision to Hear Case Challenging Tennessee Ban on Gender-Affirming Care for Minors
The Supreme Court will review the appellate court decision, which upheld Tennessee’s gender-affirming care bans for adolescents. The door is now open for a potential overturn of this ruling and…
June 21, 2024 | Brandon Wolf
ICYMI: New Data Shows Majority Support for LGBTQ+ Equality, Rejection of Anti-LGBTQ+ Agenda
Nearly two-thirds of Americans support federal nondiscrimination protections for LGBTQ+ people
Majority believe that families and medical providers should make decisions regarding care for transgender youth, not politicians
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