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The Top 5 LGBTQ Movies Streaming Right Now
Find out more about these must-watch movies and get ready to be entertained and moved by their powerful storytelling and exceptional performances.
Transgender Woman Asks Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals to Allow a Path Forward for Her Title VII Discrimination Case
Transgender Legal Defense & Education Fund client Dr. Rachel Tudor has asked the New Orleans based United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit to overturn a nationwide injunction issued by a federal judge in Wichita Falls, Texas, which has disrupted transgender sex discrimination cases throughout the country, including her own.
TLDEF Statement on Nationwide Preliminary Injunction Issued in the Northern District of Texas
In May 2016 the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) issued groundbreaking regulations clarifying that Section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act prohibits several forms of discrimination that still unfortunately plague our nation’s healthcare system.
TLDEF Files Brief in Support of Transgender Man’s Hospital Discrimination Lawsuit
Transgender Legal Defense & Education Fund (TLDEF) has filed a friend of the court brief in the U.S. District Court of Minnesota in support of Jakob Rumble, a transgender man who is suing a hospital and medical group in suburban Minneapolis for the discriminatory treatment he received during an emergency room visit and hospitalisation in June of 2013.
Failed Attempt to Defund the Independent Expert on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity
Two days before Christmas, a group of conservative states at the United Nations made a final attempt to stop the Independent Expert on the “protection against violence and discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity,” by stripping the mandate of standard UN funding.
Name Change Victory for Transgender Man in New York
Transgender Legal Defense & Education Fund announces a name change victory for a transgender man in New York. A state appeals court has granted a legal name change for Ben Stanford, reversing a lower court decision that initially denied his name change petition because he declined to share “medical evidence” of his gender transition.