Yesterday’s Executive Order from President Biden lights a path forward for
progress for LGBTQ people nationwide.
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[[link removed]]Dear friend,
On Day One of his administration, President Joe Biden began delivering for the
LGBTQ community. Your work with the Human Rights Campaign helped make that
possible!
Yesterday, President Biden signed an Executive Order
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sexual orientation and gender identity is prohibited under federal sex
nondiscrimination laws.
This Order, enacted among a slew of important Executive Orders, will have a real
and practical impact on the day-to-day lives of the approximately 11 million
LGBTQ adults and millions more LGBTQ youth nationwide:
* Never again will you have to hide pictures of your family or loved ones at
work out of concern you may be fired or harassed.
* Teenagers can now attend prom with the classmate they love, and students can
go to class with the assurance that they should be called on with their
chosen pronouns.
* LGBTQ people cannot be turned away from public housing or homeless shelters
because of their identities, and private landlords cannot discriminate
against us either.
* Doctors and nurses cannot refuse treatment, and banks cannot refuse services
simply because someone identifies as LGBTQ.
* The full force of the federal government’s legal enforcement power is now
behind our community.
This is just the beginning of historic change. Text 100DAYS to 472472 right now and join our Mobile Action Network
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[[link removed]]This is the most substantive, wide-ranging Executive Order concerning sexual
orientation and gender identity ever issued by a United States president and
shows President Biden’s intent to follow through with the campaign promises he
made to us: to pass protections for LGBTQ people as quickly as possible. It also
comes on the heels of two history-making LGBTQ nominations in the
administration:
* Pete Buttigieg as Transportation Secretary. Today, he was on Capitol Hill for his confirmation hearing. When confirmed,
he would be the first Senate-confirmed openly LGBTQ Cabinet official.
* Dr. Rachel Levine as the Assistant Secretary for Health at the United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). When
confirmed, she will become the first openly transgender, Senate-confirmed
federal official.
There is much to celebrate today, and this is just the start.
Our gratitude goes out to the Biden-Harris administration for their partnership
with us in this work and, of course, to you. Because of your hard work this past
election cycle and steadfast commitment to LGBTQ equality, the Human Rights
Campaign can work directly with the Biden-Harris administration on behalf of our
community and, if yesterday was any indication, the fruits of our collective
labor are already transforming the lives of LGBTQ Americans.
I hope you see the landscape of possibility before us with allies like President
Biden and Vice President Harris in the White House. Along with pro-equality
majorities in both the United States Senate and House of Representatives, we
have a path forward that can transform our country for the better … but only if
we put in the work.
That is why the Human Rights Campaign released the Blueprint for Positive Change 2020
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recommendations, reaching across the federal government, aimed at bettering the
daily lives of LGBTQ people at home and abroad. Beyond the implementation of Bostock , we will continue advocating for other recommendations including passing the
Equality Act, eliminating the transgender military ban, enforcing civil rights
statutes and provisions and appointing openly-LGBTQ justices, judges, executive
officials, and ambassadors.
We are moving full-speed ahead into a brighter future and you will not want to
miss a moment. Text 100DAYS to 472472 right now and join our Mobile Action Network — we will
keep you updated every step of the way.*
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Thank you all for being a part of the Human Rights Campaign. Let’s continue to
build on our work.
In Unity,
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[[link removed]]Alphonso David
President
Human Rights Campaign
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