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Executive Order 13988, officially titled Preventing and Combating Discrimination on the Basis of Gender Identity or Sexual Orientation, was the fourth executive order signed by U.S. President Joe Biden on January 20, 2021. [1] [2] [3] It was rescinded by Donald Trump within hours of his assuming office on January 20, 2025. [4]
LGBTQ rights activists were unable to hold their events due to violent opposition in 2012, 2013, 2021 and 2023. According to the 2021 International Social Survey Programme (ISSIP) study, 84% of the Georgian public thinks that sexual relations between two adults of the same sex are always wrong, which is the highest score in Europe. [5]
In 2021, the North Dakota Legislature passed legislation to ban transgender girls from participating in girls school sport teams. The bill passed the House by a vote of 69–25 and the Senate by a vote 27–20. [30] [31] The Governor of North Dakota, Doug Burgum, vetoed the bill on April 21, 2021. Overriding the governor's veto would require a ...
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Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) people in the U.S. state of Oregon have the same legal rights as non-LGBTQ people. [1] Oregon became one of the first U.S. jurisdictions to decriminalize sodomy in 1972, and same-sex marriage has been legal in the state since May 2014 when a federal judge declared the state's ban on such marriages unconstitutional.
In January 2021, legislation to repeal the gay and trans panic defense was introduced to the Vermont General Assembly with 26 co-sponsors. [26] In March 2021, the Vermont House of Representatives passed the bill by a vote of 144–1. [27] The Vermont Senate unanimously, by 29 votes to 0, passed the bill in April 2021 with some amendments.
The Health and Human Services removed a question about sexual orientation in a survey of the elderly. [313] [317] The U.S. Census Bureau, which had planned to ask about sexual orientation and gender identity in the 2020 Census and the American Community Survey, scrapped those plans in March 2017. [318]
In August 2021, by a floor vote of 14-9 Charleston formally became the first city within West Virginia to legally ban conversion therapy. [34] [35] In October 2021, by a vote of 7-0 Morgantown passed an ordinance to legally ban conversion therapy. The second city within West Virginia to ban the practice after Charleston.