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(LGBT)45% of Americans think that federal law protects LGBTQ people from discrimination. It doesn't.
A plurality of Americans believe that federal law already bans discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation.
A new Reuters/Ipsos poll found that 45% of people believe that the federal government has already passed a law banning discrimination against LGB people, something that never actually happened.
23% correctly stated that there is no such federal law and 31% said they didn’t know.
When it came to gender identity, 31% of respondents said that there is already a federal law banning discrimination against transgender people, while 32% said there isn’t.
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