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03.04.21
Ohio Fairness Act Reintroduced with Support from LGBTQ Advocates Across The State, 1000+ Businesses, Democrats and Republicans
COLUMBUS, OH- Today, Senators Nickie Antonio (D-Lakewood) and Michael Rulli (R-Salem) and Representatives Brett Hillyer (R-Uhrichsville) and Michael Skindell (D-Lakewood) reintroduced the Ohio Fairness Act, which will prohibit discrimination against Ohio’s LGBTQ community. The Ohio Fairness Act was introduced with the broadest bipartisan coalition of legislative support for the second General Assembly in a row, Read more…
LGBT Rights
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12.16.20
Victory! Federal Court Strikes Down Ohio’s Anti-Transgender Birth Certificate Policy
COLUMBUS – Today, the U. S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio struck down a discriminatory state policy that prevented transgender people born in Ohio from correcting the gender marker on their birth certificates. The decision was issued in Ray v. McCloud, the lawsuit filed more than two years ago by Lambda Legal, Read more…
LGBT Rights
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01.16.20
ACLU of Ohio and Lambda Legal Urge Federal Court to Strike Down Anti-Transgender Birth Certificate Policy
COLUMBUS – Today, January 16, the ACLU, the ACLU of Ohio, and Lambda Legal filed a motion for summary judgment in the Southern District of Ohio, asking the Court to strike down the state’s policy prohibiting transgender people from correcting the gender marker on their birth certificates. The policy is discriminatory and violates the plaintiffs’ Read more…
LGBT Rights
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09.12.19
VICTORY! Transgender Ohioans to Get Their Day in Court in Lawsuit Against the State
U.S. District Court denies Ohio’s Motion to Dismiss lawsuit filed by the ACLU of Ohio and Lambda Legal on behalf of transgender Ohioans denied accurate birth certificates by the state.
Columbus – A U.S. District Court judge today ruled that the lawsuit filed by the ACLU of Ohio, the ACLU, and Lambda Legal on behalf of four transgender plaintiffs seeking accurate birth certificates can proceed. The court denied the state’s motion to have the lawsuit dismissed, thereby ensuring the four transgender plaintiffs in the case Read more…
LGBT Rights
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05.28.19
Following ACLU Ohio Brief, Lyceum School Backs out of Lawsuit Challenging South Euclid’s Non-Discrimination Ordinance
Religious Freedom is Not a License to Discriminate
SOUTH EUCLID – Today, Tuesday, May 28, The Lyceum filed a notice to dismiss its own lawsuit, which had challenged South Euclid’s non-discrimination ordinance as infringing on its religious liberty. The withdrawal comes days after the ACLU of Ohio submitted a brief in opposition to the Lyceum’s motion for a Preliminary Injunction. “The Lyceum realized Read more…
LGBT Rights