WASHINGTON-DC, October 22, 2018: In response to The New York Times article ‘Transgender’ Could Be Defined Out of Existence Under Trump Administration published on October 21, Rea Carey, executive director of The National LGBTQ Task Force’s stated: “Trump is too late. We are not going back to a time when transgender people were in the…
On June 21, 2016, the National LGBTQ Task Force, the Autistic Self-Advocacy Network and the National Center for Transgender Equality released a joint statement about the needs of transgender and gender non-conforming autistic people and launched a social media campaign, #AutisticTransPride, to highlight transgender autistic voices and leadership. Transgender autistic people are often denied the…
The Fairness for All Marylanders Act just passed in the House of Delegates by a vote of 82-57 and now heads to Governor O’Malley for his signature.
Multiracial transgender people are experiencing disproportionately higher levels of attempted suicide, poverty and unemployment.
One of the most important findings of the National Transgender Discrimination Survey was that the combination of anti-transgender with structural and face-to-face racism means that transgender people of color experience particularly devastating levels of discrimination.
A look at the inequities facing transgender workers in the American workforce—from finding and keeping good jobs, to having equal access to job-related benefits, to obtaining adequate health insurance coverage.
A new study shows that 20 percent of transgender people have served in the military, which is double the percentage of the U.S. general population that has served.
These state reports based on the National Transgender Discrimination Survey reveal the specific experiences of transgender and gender non-conforming people in twenty-five states of the U.S.
These regional reports, based on the National Transgender Discrimination Survey, reveal the specific experiences of transgender and gender non-conforming people in five regions of the US – the South, the Mid-Atlantic, New England, the Midwest, and the West.
On Tuesday, March 5, Fallon Fox made sports history when she came out as the first openly transgender athlete in mixed martial arts (MMA).