2021 in LGBT rights

This is a list of notable events in the history of LGBT rights that took place in the year 2021.

List of years in LGBT rights (table)

Events

January
  • 7 - In the United States of America, the Labor Department suspended an executive order banning government agencies and contractors from providing diversity training, after LGBT advocacy groups from the Northern District of California filed suit and a federal judge granted a preliminary nationwide injunction against the executive order.[1][2]
  • 20 - In the United States of America, President Joe Biden has signed an executive order just hours after his inauguration making the government recognise all protections against discrimination on the basis of sex, to include sexuality, gender identity and sex stereotypes in line with the interpretation of sex discrimination in Bostock v. Clayton County, reversing the changes in interpretation of anti-discrimination laws made by the previous president in regards to discrimination in healthcare, housing, access to shelters, access to public accommodations and employment among other areas. [3][4]
  • 25 - In the United States of America, President Joe Biden has signed an executive order ending the ban on service by transgender people in the military that gone into effect on 22 January 2019. [5]

References
  1. "Donald Trump executive order banning diversity training suspended by Labor Department". USA Today. Retrieved 8 January 2021.
  2. "Donald Trump executive order banning diversity training blocked by federal judge". USA Today. Retrieved 8 January 2021.
  3. "Executive Order on Preventing and Combating Discrimination on the Basis of Gender Identity or Sexual Orientation". Retrieved 22 January 2021.
  4. "President Biden shows support for trans Americans, scrapping Trump's definition of gender and promising to overturn the trans military ban". Retrieved 22 January 2021.
  5. "Biden reverses Trump's transgender military ban". Retrieved 25 January 2021.
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