1st MILLERLAND CONGRESS

H.R. 120-00
Title of Bill: LGBT Protect Act
Principal Author(s): Willie Zhang
Sponsored by:
Be It Enacted By The Millerland Congress
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Section 1: FINDINGS
Congress makes the following findings:
1) According to a survey done by GLSEN:
90% of LGBT students hear anti-LGBT comments in school.
84% of LGBT youth report sexual harassment at school based on
their gender identity and/or sexual orientation.
2) Several studies have proven that discrimination, sexual harassment,
intimidation, violence, and bullying at school has contributed to high
levels of absenteeism, dropout rates, substandard health conditions, and
academic underachievement among LGBT youth.
3) LGBT individuals are approximately twice as likely to abuse alcohol, three
times as likely to use marijuana, and eight times as likely to use cocaine
than non-LGBT individuals.
4) LGBT individuals account for 30% of all suicides each year.
5) Only twenty states and the District of Columbia protect LGBT individuals
from employment, housing, and other discriminations based on sexual
orientation and gender identity expression.
6) It is still illegal for a same-sex couple to get married under the law in 13
states.
Section 2: PURPOSE
The purposes of this act are:
1) to protect all LGBT students from forms of abuse such as but not limited to those
mentioned in section 1 while ensuring that their right to a safe public education.
2) to effectively remedy the damage and emotional distress of the LGBT youth
caused by forms of abuse such as, but not limited to those mentioned in section 1.

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3) to ensure that LGBT individuals will receive protection against discrimination

from the government when dealing with issues such as but not limited to
employment and housing.
4) to call to use congressional powers such as the necessary and proper clause to
enforce the 14th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America
in order to end discrimination against LGBT individuals at school, at the
workplace, etc.
Section 3: GENERAL PROVISIONS
1) Criminalize all forms of abuse such as, but not limited to, discrimination,
intentional exclusion, sexual harassment, violence, and intimidation against LGBT
youth on the basis of their sexual orientation/gender identity and expression.
2) Make unlawful at all fifty states for landlords, employers, and other individuals
that this Act may apply to to discriminate against LGBT individuals, denying them
certain benefits on the basis of their sexual orientation/gender identity and
expression.
3) Empower related governmental sectors under the Necessary and Proper clause to
do what is deemed necessary such as, but not limited to, issuing rules and
regulations, instigating investigations on reported or observed violations of the
first two clauses, or directing the attention of law enforcement agencies to the
respective cases, to enact the first two clauses of Section 3.
4) Legalizing the union of two individuals, regardless of gender, under the oath of
marriage and the law throughout all 50 states and the District of Columbia.
Section 4: DEFINITIONS
1) LGBT: Lesbians, Gays, Bisexuals, Transexuals.
2) Gender Identity: a person's inner sense of being male or female, usually developed
during early childhood as a result of parental rearing practices and societal
influences and strengthened during puberty by hormonal changes.
3) Gender Expression: the external expression of masculine or feminine gender roles,
as through socially defined behaviors and ways of dressing.
4) Amendment XIV Section 1: All persons born or naturalized in the United States,
and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the
state wherein they reside. No state shall make or enforce any law which shall
abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any
state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law;
nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.