Biden: Day One

On his first day in office, President Joe Biden signed the most sweeping and substantive executive order regarding LGBTQ+ rights in U.S. history, implementing the SCOTUS ruling in two cases that the last administration’s Department of Justice had failed to properly apply.

The US Supreme Court ruled in June ruled by a vote of 6-3 that LGBTQ+ people are protected under federal employment discrimination laws, specifically Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, in cases involving whether someone can be fired from their job for being gay or transgender.

Day One, and now millions of LGBTQ+ Americans can breathe a sigh of relief knowing that their President and their government believe discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity is not only intolerable but illegal. And, by fully implementing the SCOTUS ruling, the federal government will enforce federal law to protect LGBTQ+ people from discrimination in employment, health care, housing, and education, and other key areas of life.

To be fair, implementation of the Executive Order across the federal government will take time, but equality is happening, y’all.

And the march goes on …