WASHINGTON, DC, July 12. 2017—Yesterday evening, Rep. Vicky Hartzler (R-MO) proposed an amendment to the National Defense Reauthorization Act that would ban transgender service members and their families from receiving transition-related medical care from military health services. In response, the National LGBTQ Task Force Action Fund has released the following statement: “This amendment is an unconscionable…
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Read MoreSenate’s Obamacare Repeal Bill Condemned by LGBTQ Advocates
WASHINGTON, D.C., June 22, 2017—Today, the United States (U.S.) Senate made public the so-called Better Care Reconciliation Act (H.R. 1628). If passed, the bill would take away health insurance from millions of people, including lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) people. While the full extent of its harm is not yet known because the…
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Thank you for standing with families, children and against anti-LGBTQ discrimination. Your message will help ensure foster and adopted children have loving homes and transgender kids can be safe in school. Please consider sharing this action on social media.
Read MoreRepublican-Led House Votes to Strip Millions of People of Health Care
WASHINGTON, DC, May 4, 2017—Today, the Republican-led U.S. House of Representatives passed the hastily concocted Trumpcare, the so-called American Health Care Act (AHCA), which seeks to repeal the landmark Affordable Care Act (ACA). If enacted, the bill could eliminate quality affordable health care for millions of people. In addition to today’s House vote to repeal the ACA, yesterday, the Department of…
Read MoreHistoric Equality Act Seeks Explicit Non-Discrimination Protections for LGBTQ People
WASHINGTON, DC, May 2, 2017–Today, the National LGBTQ Task Force Action Fund is joining members of the Congressional LGBT Equality Caucus in re-introducing the Equality Act. Sponsored by United States Representative David Cicilline (D-Rhode Island) and United States Senators Jeff Merkley (D-Oregon), Tammy Baldwin (D-Wisconsin), and Cory Booker (D-New Jersey), the bill seeks to explicitly ban discrimination against…
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