110-page document, while the term transgender comes up twice. The Equality Act, the federal legislation that would ban LGBTQ-based discrimination in such areas as housing and employment, is not mentioned.
The bill was passed by the House last year but is stalled in the Senate.Health care a priorityEnsuring LGBTQ people are not discriminated against when they seek health care is one of the main policy recommendations from the task forces.
The issue took on greater urgency with the U.S. Supreme Court's decision Wednesday in the case Trump v. Pennsylvania that upheld the Trump administration's authority to institute broad exemptions to the birth control benefit of the Affordable Care Act.The ruling permits employers and universities to refuse.