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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 implementing the Supreme Court’s historic decision last June in Bostock v. Clayton County that made it clear, once and for all, that discrimination on the basis of 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 — we will keep you updated every step of the way.*

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 last year, an important brief that includes more than 85 policy 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.*

Thank you all for being a part of the Human Rights Campaign. Let’s continue to build on our work.

In Unity,

Alphonso David
President
Human Rights Campaign
Pronouns: he/him/his

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