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Requires all federal agencies to extend existing protections on the basis of sex to include sexual orientation and gender identity Executive Order 13988 , officially titled Preventing and Combating Discrimination on the Basis of Gender Identity or Sexual Orientation , is the fourth executive order signed by U.S. President Joe Biden on January ...
This category has the following 12 subcategories, out of 12 total. Gender in the United States by state (8 C) Gender in insular areas of the United States (8 C)
While campaigning for the presidency in 2008, Obama had promised an executive order banning workplace discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation. [3] On the basis of his campaign statement's, LGBT activists had long expected President Obama to issue an executive order prohibiting government contractors from discriminating on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity. [4]
On July 21, 2014, President Obama signed Executive Order 13672, adding "gender identity" to the categories protected against discrimination in hiring in the federal civilian workforce, and both "sexual orientation" and "gender identity" to the categories protected against discrimination in hiring and employment on the part of federal government ...
The Transgender Bill of Rights, if passed, would amend the Civil Rights Act to prohibit discrimination on the basis of sex, enforce prohibitions on discrimination in health care on the basis of gender identity and amend federal education laws to ensure that trans students are protected from discrimination. This bill would also specifically ...
It never occurred to me that this was an option, because I thought the gender change laws were strictly for transgender people. I decided to try and use the same framework to have a third gender." [ 77 ] In December 2016, Keenan received a birth certificate with an 'Intersex' sex marker from New York City, the first birth certificate issued ...
Also in 2014, President Obama signed Executive Order 13672, adding "gender identity" to the categories protected against discrimination in hiring in the federal civilian workforce and both "gender identity" and "sexual orientation" to the categories protected against discrimination in employment and hiring on the part of federal government ...
As of 2021, 77 transgender, non-binary, intersex, and genderqueer officials served in public elected positions. [1] This represented a nearly fivefold increase from 2018, when only 16 openly transgender individuals had been elected to office in the United States. [2]