mteb/BrightProPsychologyRetrieval huggingface dataset:
|   /  
LGBT anti-discrimination law in prisons, juvenile halls, and immigration
detention centers, including but not limited to transgender people required to
be housed according to their gender identity and coverage of transition care
|   |   /  
Transgender-disenfranchising voting laws repealed/absent  [657]  |   |
 /  
Transgender people allowed to use restrooms and other gender-segregated spaces
that correspond to their gender identity  |   |
 /  
Transgender people allowed to participate in the sport of their gender
identity  |   |   /  
Single-person restrooms with gender-segregated signage (and a lock) are given
new signs saying "All-Gender Restroom" (by policy/law)  |   |   /   (  Five states
 and  Four cities
 have enacted laws that mandate
all single-user gender-segregated bathrooms be unisex)
 Gender confirmation surgery  , puberty blockers, hormone replacement therapy and
other transition-related healthcare for transgender people required to be
covered under health insurance and state  Medicaid  policies  |   |   /   /  
(Some states ban coverage of such medical practices, while others require
coverage of it, and others are ambiguous on the issue)
LGBT education  |   |   /   (Mixed policies: Multiple states
have  Anti-LGBT curriculum laws  in place that limit instruction and discussion of LGBT issues
in the classroom,  [658]  while others, such as  California
 ,  Oregon  , 
Colorado  ,  Illinois  , and  New Jersey  mandate
education on LGBT issues in school  [659]  )
Hate Crime laws inclusive of Sexual orientation  |   (Since 2009 under the 
Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act
 )  [660]  |   /   (35 states enhance sentences for
crimes committed against someone on the basis of their sexual orientation,
while one state,  Michigan  , accounts for Hate Crimes committed on the basis of sexual
orientation when collecting data on Hate Crimes)
Hate Crime laws inclusive of Gender identity  |   /   (24 states enhance sentences for
crimes committed against some on the basis of them being Transgender or gender
non-conforming)
Ban on police profiling on the basis of both perceived and/or actual gender
expression,  gender identity  , and
sexual orientation  |   |   /  
Sexual orientation allowed as grounds for  asylum  |   (Since 1994)  [661]
[662]  |  
Gender identity allowed as grounds for  asylum  |   |   /  
Prohibition on the detention of immigrants on the basis of their LGBT
identity.  |   |   /  
Prohibition of deportations of LGBT immigrants back to countries with the
death penalty for homosexuality  |   (Currently there is a 100-day
suspension on all deportations via a  Joe Biden
 executive order)
[663]  |  
Endorsable visas for immigrants and travelers who are legally recognized as 
non-binary  or  Intersex  in their country of origin  [b]  |   [664]  |   /  
Surrogacy legal for male same-sex couples  |   |
 /  
Same-sex marriage  |
###  After death arrangements
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By entity  |
##  Societal hurdles
* Moscow
*  Central Station  "Central Station \(gay club, Moscow, Russia\)")
* Saint-Petersburg
*  Blue Oyster  "Blue Oyster \(Saint-Petersburg, Russia\)")
*  Central Station  "Central Station \(gay club, Saint-Petersburg, Russia\)")
#  LGBT rights in the United States
###  Lyndon B. Johnson
On the  1980 campaign trail  , he spoke of the gay civil rights
movement:
###  Anti-discrimination laws
In the Democratic Party's  2016 national platform
 , the Democratic Party adopted its most progressive agenda in
supporting LGBT rights. According to that agenda, "Democrats believe that LGBT
rights are human rights and that American foreign policy should advance the
ability of all persons to live with dignity, security, and respect, regardless
of who they are or who they love."
B  |  O
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Mother’s blood group  |  A  |
* _ Obergefell v. Hodges  _ (the U.S. Supreme Court case that legalized same-sex marriage) and same-sex marriage generally.
* Banning  conversion therapy  on minors.
*  Transgender children's right  to use the facilities corresponding to their gender.
*  Covering LGBT people under anti-discrimination policies  , including in cases of adoption.  [646]  [647]
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In 1961, beginning with Illinois, states began to decriminalize same-sex
sexual activity,  [3]  and in 2003, through _ Lawrence v. Texas
 _ , all remaining laws against
same-sex sexual activity were invalidated. In 2004, beginning with
Massachusetts, states began to offer same-sex marriage, and in 2015, through
_ Obergefell v. Hodges  _
, all states were required to offer it. In many states and municipalities,
LGBT Americans are explicitly protected from discrimination in employment,
housing, and access to public accommodations. Many LGBT rights in the United
States have been established by the  United States Supreme Court
 , which 
invalidated state laws  banning
protected class recognition based upon  homosexuality  ,  struck down sodomy laws  nationwide,  struck down Section 3
 of the  Defense
of Marriage Act  ,
made  same-sex marriage 
legal nationwide, and  prohibited employment discrimination
 against gay and
transgender employees.  LGBT-related  anti-
discrimination laws regarding housing and private and public services varies
by state. Twenty-three states plus  Washington, D.C.
 ,  Guam
 , and  Puerto Rico
 outlaw discrimination based on  sexual orientation
 , and twenty-two states plus
Washington, D.C., outlaw discrimination based on  gender identity
 or expression.  [4]  Family law
also varies by state.  Adoption of children by same-sex married couples
 is legal nationwide since _Obergefell v. Hodges_ ( 
Mississippi  had its ban struck down by a federal court in March
2016).  [5]  [6]
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The  US Department of Education  has said transgender students are protected under
Title IX.  [298]
###  Transgender people in prison
In 1972, a  Tacoma, Washington  teacher of twelve years with a perfect record was terminated
after a former student  outed  him to the vice-
principal. The  Washington Supreme Court  found that homosexuality was immoral and impaired
his efficiency as a teacher. The court supported its conclusion in various
ways, including the definition of homosexuality in the New Catholic
Encyclopedia, the criminal nature of homosexual conduct, and finding that an
"immoral" person could not be trusted to instruct students as his presence
would be inherently disruptive. On October 3, 1977, the Supreme Court denied 
certiorari  , although Justices Brennan and
Marshall would have granted cert. This was the first homosexual discrimination
decision to be aired on national network news. In fact, it was simultaneously
aired on all three national network evening news shows, reaching approximately
60 million viewers.  [324]  [325]  [326]  [327]  [328]
###   Coroner set to hold inquest into Lamma ferry crash this year, some 12
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Before 1993, homosexual acts between consenting males were against the law in
Russia,  [1]  and homosexuality was considered a mental disorder until
adoption of  ICD-10  in 1999,  [55]  but even after
that military medical expertise statute was in force to continue considering
homosexuality a mental disorder which was a reason to deny homosexuals to
serve in the military. On 1 July 2003, a new military medical expertise
statute was adopted; it said people "who have problems with their identity and
sexual preferences" can only be drafted during war times.  [56]  However, this
clause contradicted another clause of the same statute which stated that
different sexual orientation should not be considered a deviation. This
ambiguity was resolved by the Major-General of the Medical Service Valery
Kulikov who clearly stated that the new medical statute "does not forbid
people of non-standard sexual orientation from serving in the military."  [57]
However, he added that people of non-standard sexual orientation should not
reveal their sexual orientation while serving in the army because "other
soldiers are not going to like that; they can be beaten".  [58]  President
Vladimir Putin said in a U.S. television interview in 2010 that openly  gay
men  were not excluded from military service in
Russia.  [59]  In 2013, it was reported that the Defense Ministry had issued a
guideline on assessment of new recruits' mental health that recommends
recruits be asked about their sexual history and be examined for certain types
of tattoos, especially genital or buttocks tattoos, that would allegedly
indicate a homosexual orientation.  [59]  [60]
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On October 24, 2016, 10 soldiers in the  U.S. Army  became the first to openly petition for a sex change since the ban on
service by transgender individuals was lifted.  [79]  The military was
originally scheduled to complete its adjustment to openly transgender troops
by July 2017.  [79]  That month, however, President Trump declared in a tweet
that transgender people would be prohibited from serving in the military.
[80]  The next day,  Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
 General  Joseph Dunford 
said, "There will be no modifications to the current policy until the
President's direction has been received by the Secretary of Defense and the
Secretary has issued implementation guidance. In the meantime, we will
continue to treat all of our personnel with respect."  [81]
###  Former restrictions
Law  |
In 1976, during that year's presidential campaign, President Gerald Ford was "
 zapped  "Zap \(action\)") " by activists in  Ann
Arbor, Michigan  over
federal immigration rules. The protests forced President Ford to admit that he
was not aware that homosexuality was used as a basis for exclusion in
immigration rulings.  [361]
Obama supported legalizing  same-sex marriage  when he first ran for the Illinois State Senate in 1996.
[430]  When he ran for re-election to the Illinois Senate in 1998, he was
undecided about legalizing same-sex marriage and supported including sexual
orientation to the state's non-discrimination laws.  [431]  [432]  During his
time as a state senator he cosponsored a bill amending the Illinois Human
Rights Act to include protections for LGBT people which prohibits
discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity in the
workplace, housing, and all public places and supported Illinois gender
violence act.
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Alabama  |  Governor
 Kay Ivey  |  April 8, 2022  [191]  |  May 8,
2022  [192]  |  It is a felony for a medical provider to give gender-affirming
healthcare to transgender people under 19 (the age of majority in Alabama). In
May 2022, a federal judge ruled that the ban on surgery was enforceable.
However, the ban on puberty blockers and hormones was not enforceable while
the law is challenged in court.  [193]  In August 2023, the  11th U.S.
Circuit Court of Appeals  reversed the decision, allowing the ban on puberty
blockers and hormones to take effect.  [194]
 Utah  |  Governor 
Spencer Cox  "Spencer Cox \(politician\)") |
January 27, 2023  [195]  [196]  [197]  [198]  |  |
 South Dakota  |  Governor  Kristi Noem  |
February 13, 2023  [199]  [200]  [201]  |  |
 Mississippi 
|  Governor  Tate Reeves  |  February 28,
2023  [202]  [203]  |  |
 Tennessee  |
Governor  Bill Lee  "Bill Lee
\(Tennessee politician\)") |  March 2, 2023  [204]  [205]  |  |
 Florida  |  Florida
Board of Medicine
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* _ The Advocate  "The Advocate \(magazine\)") _
* _ Drum  "Drum \(American magazine\)") _
* _ Focus: A Journal for Lesbians  _
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* _ The Ladder  "The Ladder \(magazine\)") _
* _ The Phoenix: Midwest Homophile Voice  _
* _ Vice Versa  "Vice Versa \(magazine\)") _
###  Third parties
**_See also: Hong Kong trans activist Henry Tse fought for the right to be
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The court of appeal heard the government’s appeal against that decision last
December, with the government’s lawyer arguing that treating heterosexual and
same-sex couples differently under the city’s two inheritance laws could be
justified  because they were “materially distinguished.”
Discrimination protections  |
##  Discrimination protections
|  
Joint adoption by same-sex couples  |
####  Body parts
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|  Notes
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Same-sex sexual activity legal  |   Legal since 1993 for men,
never criminalised for women.  [1]
 _De facto_ illegal in  Chechnya
 , often punished
with life in prison, torture, vigilante execution, vigilante attacks and
forced labor camp internment.
Equal age of consent (16)  |   (since 2003)  [33]  [note
6]
Freedom of expression  |   (Federal ban on distribution of
"propaganda" for "non-traditional" relationships and "sex change" to minors
since 2013 and to adults since 2022; Public expression of LGBT identity banned
since 2023)
Anti-discrimination laws in employment  |  
Anti-discrimination laws in the provision of goods and services  |  
Anti-discrimination laws in all other areas (including indirect
discrimination, hate speech)  |  
Same-sex marriage(s)  |   (Constitutional ban since 2020)
Recognition of same-sex couples  |  
Commercial surrogacy for gay male couples  |  
Adoption by a single LGBT person  |  
Stepchild adoption by same-sex couples  |  
Joint adoption by same-sex couples  |  
 Conversion therapy  banned
on minors  |  
LGB people allowed to serve openly in the military  |
States that prohibit housing
discrimination based on  sexual orientation  or  gender identity  .  HUD
 regulations require all
housing providers that receive HUD funding not to discriminate against an
individual's sexual orientation or gender identity.
During the 2000 campaign he did not endorse a single piece of  gay rights
 legislation. In a 2000 Republican
presidential debate, George W. Bush said he opposes same-sex marriage, but
supports  states' rights  when it
came to the issue of same-sex marriage. During the campaign he had refused to
comment on Vermont's civil unions law.  [411]  On April 13, 2000, Governor
Bush became first presumptive GOP presidential nominee ever to meet publicly
with gay Republicans in Austin, Texas.  [414]
Politics  |
On January 4, 2010, he appointed  Amanda Simpson  the Senior Technical Advisor to the  Department of Commerce
 , making her the
first openly transgender person appointed to a government post by a U.S.
President.  [460]  [461]  [462]  He has appointed the most U.S. gay and
lesbian officials of any U.S. president.  [463]
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###  John Adams
###  Civil unions legislative motion
On September 30, 2011, the  Defense Department
 issued new guidelines that allow military chaplains to officiate at
same-sex weddings, on or off military installations, in states where such
weddings are allowed.  [470]
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The main supporters of LGBT rights in the U.S. have generally been political 
liberals  and  libertarians  .
Regionally, support for the LGBT rights movement has been strongest in the
areas of the  Northeast  and the  West Coast  , and in other states with large urban
populations. The national  Democratic Party
 "Democratic Party \(United
States\)") has held the official platform support most initiatives since 2012
for LGBT rights. However, there are some  Republican
 "Republican Party \(United
States\)") groups advocating for LGBT issues inside the party include the 
Log Cabin Republicans  ,
 GOProud  ,  Young Conservatives for the Freedom
To Marry  , and  College Republicans
 of the  University of
Pennsylvania 
and  Columbia University  .
A CNN News poll in 2021 found that 55% of Republicans support same-sex
marriage,  [626]  a percentage that rose to 55% in a Gallup poll conducted
during May 2021.  [627]
|   (Since 2008 for both 
sexuality  and  gender identity
 )  |   (Since 2008 for both 
sexuality  and  gender identity
 )
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Location of the United States
####  Employment
Some who experience exclusion from the workforce, turn to survival crimes,
such as sex work, in order to have an income as a direct result of economic
oppression and discrimination.  [111]  With the passage of the  Fight Online
Sex Trafficking Act  (FOSTA) and  Stop Enabling Sex Traffickers Act

(SESTA) bills, those individuals who turn to sex work are put in more danger
because they are forced to turn back to more dangerous methods of finding
work, such as through pimps and working on the streets, than online forums
where they were able to vet clients.  [121]  [122]  [123]  [124]  [125]
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Without explicitly referring to homosexuality, the executive order responded
to several years of charges that the presence of homosexual employees in the
State Department posed blackmail risks. Attorney General  Herbert Brownell
Jr.  explained that the
new order was designed to encompass both loyalty and security risks and he
differentiated between the two: "Employees could be a security risk and still
not be disloyal or have any traitorous thoughts, but it may be that their
personal habits are such that they might be subject to blackmail by people who
seek to destroy the safety of our country."  [353]
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Twelve states either have not yet formally repealed their laws against sexual
activity among consenting adults or have not revised them to accurately
reflect their true scope in the aftermath of _Lawrence v. Texas_ . Often, the
sodomy law was drafted to also encompass other forms of sexual conduct such as
bestiality, and no attempt has subsequently succeeded in separating them. Nine
states' statutes purport to ban all forms of sodomy, some including oral
intercourse, regardless of the participants' genders:  Florida
 ,  Georgia  "Georgia
\(U.S. state\)") ,  Louisiana  , 
Massachusetts  ,  Michigan
 ,  Mississippi  ,  North Carolina  , 
Oklahoma  and  South Carolina
 . Three states specifically target
their statutes at same-sex relations only:  Kansas  ,
 Kentucky  , and  Texas  .
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marriage rights and against  deportation 
of LGBT spouses.
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In a 2013 poll conducted by the  University of Hong Kong
 , 33.3% of
respondents supported same-sex marriage for same-sex couples, with 43% being
opposed.  [84]  Another poll conducted by the  Liberal Party
 "Liberal Party \(Hong Kong\)") showed that
29% supported same-sex marriage while 59% were against it.  [85]
Uniformed  |
On June 15, 2020, the Supreme Court of the United States ruled that the
protections provided by Title VII of the  Civil Rights Act of 1964
 are also extended
to LGBT individuals, thereby making it illegal for workplaces with 15 or more
employees to discriminate on the basis of sexuality or gender identity.  [336]
The three consolidated cases were _ Altitude Express, Inc. v. Zarda
 _ ;
_ Bostock v. Clayton County  _ ; and _ R.G. & G.R. Harris Funeral Homes Inc. v. Equal
Employment Opportunity Commission
 _ . USA Today afterwards stated that in addition to LGBTQ
employment discrimination, "The court's ruling is likely to have a sweeping
impact on federal civil rights laws barring sex discrimination in education,
health care, housing and financial credit."  [337]
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 contractors and sub-contractors.
[55]  [56]  Obama's related Executive Order 13673  [a]  required federal
contractors to prove their compliance with  labor laws
 , but
President Trump revoked this requirement on March 27, 2017.  [57]
State  ,
 Federal District  ,
and  Territorial  |
In 1981, the AIDS epidemic, caused by the Human Immunodeficiency Virus, was
reported in the United States. HIV is transferred through infected blood and
sexual contact, and in the early 1980s, risk factors were reported to include
homosexuality and drug use.  [316]  [317]  One of the earliest medical clinics
treating the disease was run in New York City by Dr.  Joseph Sonnabend
 . By 1985, thousands of people in
the United States had died. Many LGBT advocacy organizations began to speak up
and raise funds.
On October 29, 2015, President  Barack Obama  endorsed  Proposition 1  in Houston, Texas.  [497]
###   Hong Kong’s new national security law ‘unduly limits’ human rights and
freedom, UN experts say
#####  Political figures
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