To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: On February 25, 2021, the U.S. House of Representatives passed a measure that, if enacted, will impose far-reaching federal statutory prohibitions against discrimination in employment, health care, housing, public accommodations, public education, credit, and federal jury service on the basis of sex, gender identity, and sexual orientation. The Equality Act (H.R. 5/S. 393) would amend numerous sections of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and other federal statutes to make discrimination based on sex — defined in the measure to include actual or perceived LGBTQ status — expressly unlawful across a variety of contexts. It also would expand existing law to provide a cause of action for associational discrimination, as well as discrimination based on an individual’s actual