Democrats stand with the LGBT community's fight for equality. We are committed to ending anti-LGBT violence, bullying, and discrimination, and to ensuring that LGBT Americans are treated with dignity and respect in their communities, their workplaces, and their schools.

Under President Obama's leadership, we have made tremendous progress: passing hate crimes legislation named for Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr., banning discrimination against LGBT people by federal contractors, and ending "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" and the ban on transgender military service. On President Obama's first day in office, only two states guaranteed marriage equality. Today, marriage equality is the law of the land in all 50 states.

These milestones are significant and historic, but our work is far from complete. Experience tells us that progress is incremental just as President Obama said, "step by step, law by law, mind by changing mind."

Democrats are ready to continue to strive for progress. Leaders in Congress and around the country will fight alongside the LGBT community for full equality under the law, ending harmful conversion therapy for LGBT youth, and full legal protection for transgender Americans.