President Joe Biden signed a wide-ranging executive order to extend anti-discrimination protections in federal agencies to LGBTQ people shortly after his inauguration January 20.
The order applies the United States Supreme Court's 6-3 decision in Bostock v. Clayton County last year to the federal government, so that where statutes — such as Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 — ban discrimination on the basis of sex, executive agencies interpret that to also include sexual orientation and gender identity. "Discrimination on the basis of gender identity or sexual orientation manifests differently for different individuals, and it often overlaps with other forms of prohibited discrimination, including discrimination on the basis of race