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=== Later impact on LGBT rights ===
=== Later impact on LGBT rights ===
[[File:President Joe Biden speaks at an event celebrating the 60th Anniversary of the Civil Rights Act on 29 July 2024, at the Lyndon B. Johnson Presidential Library and Museum in Austin, Texas (cropped).jpg|thumb|President [[Joe Biden]] speaks at an event celebrating the 60th Anniversary of the Civil Rights Act on 29 July 2024, at the [[Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum|Lyndon B. Johnson Presidential Library and Museum]] in Austin, Texas. ]]
[[File:President Joe Biden speaks at an event celebrating the 60th Anniversary of the Civil Rights Act on 29 July 2024, at the Lyndon B. Johnson Presidential Library and Museum in Austin, Texas (cropped).jpg|thumb|President [[Joe Biden]] speaks at an event celebrating the 60th Anniversary of the Civil Rights Act on 29 July 2024, at the [[Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum|Lyndon B. Johnson Presidential Library and Museum]] in Austin, Texas. ]]
In June 2020, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in three cases (''[[Bostock v. Clayton County]]'', ''[[Altitude Express, Inc. v. Zarda]]'', and ''[[R.G. & G.R. Harris Funeral Homes Inc. v. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission]]'') that Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, which barred employers from discriminating on the basis of sex, precluded employers from discriminating on the basis of [[sexual orientation]] or [[gender identity]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2020/jun/15/justices-rule-lgbt-people-protected-job-discrimina/|title=Justices rule LGBT people protected from job discrimination|date=June 15, 2020|website=Arkansas Online|access-date=June 15, 2020|archive-date=June 15, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200615161641/https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2020/jun/15/justices-rule-lgbt-people-protected-job-discrimina/|url-status=live}}</ref> Afterward, ''[[USA Today]]'' stated that in addition to LGBTQ employment discrimination, "[t]he court's ruling is likely to have a sweeping impact on federal civil rights laws barring sex discrimination in education, health care, housing and financial credit."<ref>{{cite news |last1=Wolf |first1=Richard |title=Supreme Court grants federal job protections to gay, lesbian, transgender workers |url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2020/06/15/supreme-court-denies-job-protection-lgbt-workers/4456749002/ |access-date=October 8, 2020 |newspaper=USA Today |date=June 15, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201007113245/https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2020/06/15/supreme-court-denies-job-protection-lgbt-workers/4456749002/ |archive-date=October 7, 2020}}</ref>
In June 2020, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in three cases (''[[Bostock v. Clayton County]]'', ''[[Altitude Express, Inc. v. Zarda]]'', and ''[[R.G. & G.R. Harris Funeral Homes Inc. v. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission]]'') that Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, which barred employers from discriminating on the basis of sex, precluded employers from discriminating on the basis of [[sexual orientation]] or [[gender identity]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2020/jun/15/justices-rule-lgbt-people-protected-job-discrimina/|title=Justices rule LGBT people protected from job discrimination|date=June 15, 2020|website=Arkansas Online|access-date=June 15, 2020|archive-date=June 15, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200615161641/https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2020/jun/15/justices-rule-lgbt-people-protected-job-discrimina/|url-status=live}}</ref> Afterward, ''USA Today'' stated that in addition to LGBTQ employment discrimination, "[t]he court's ruling is likely to have a sweeping impact on federal civil rights laws barring sex discrimination in education, health care, housing and financial credit."<ref>{{cite news |last1=Wolf |first1=Richard |title=Supreme Court grants federal job protections to gay, lesbian, transgender workers |url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2020/06/15/supreme-court-denies-job-protection-lgbt-workers/4456749002/ |access-date=October 8, 2020 |newspaper=USA Today |date=June 15, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201007113245/https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2020/06/15/supreme-court-denies-job-protection-lgbt-workers/4456749002/ |archive-date=October 7, 2020}}</ref>


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