In addition, he issued an executive order expanding Title IX to protect LGBTQ students, and particularly trans students, from discrimination.īut, 'for all of our progress, there are many States in which LGBTQ+ individuals still lack protections for fundamental rights and dignity in hospitals, schools, public accommodations, and other spaces,' he wrote in Tuesday's proclamation. On his first day in office, Biden signed an executive order directing federal agencies to protect LGBTQ people under all federal laws that prohibit discrimination based on sex.Īs a result, the Department of Housing and Urban Development announced in February that LGBTQ people would be protected from housing discrimination by federal law for the first time in history.īiden also reversed the Trump administration's ban on transgender people openly enlisting and serving in the military, and a proposal that would've allowed health care providers and organizations receiving federal funds to discriminate against transgender people.
