The House will vote on LGBTQ civil rights protections next week

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The House of Representatives is expected to vote on the Equality Act – the federal bill that would add sexual orientation and gender identity to federal civil rights legislation – as next week.

“Other legislation coming to the floor next week are two bills that passed through the House last Congress: a wilderness package and the Equality Act, which will end legal discrimination against LGBTQ Americans,” House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-MD) wrote in a memo yesterday.

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Out Rep. David Cicilline (D-RI) is expected to introduce the bill in the House, as he has done in past years.

Last year, the Supreme Court ruled in its historic Bostock v. Clayton Co. decision that Title VII’s ban on job discrimination “based on sex” also prohibits anti-LGBTQ discrimination because it’s impossible to discriminate against LGBTQ people without taking one’s sex into account.

In January, President Joe Biden issued an executive order directing federal agencies to apply that reasoning to other federal civil rights legislation that bans discrimination based on sex.

The Equality Act would extend those protections and…

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