Tag: TLDEF
TLDEF Brief Warns of Serious Harm to Transgender People if Supreme Court Sides with Denver Bakery Owner Challenging Colorado’s Anti-Discrimination Law
Transgender Legal Defense & Education Fund (TLDEF) has filed an amicus or “friend of the court” brief to the United States Supreme Court in Masterpiece Cakeshop, Ltd. v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission, spotlighting the immense need for public accommodations laws that protect more than two million people in our nation who identify as transgender.
TLDEF & Lambda Legal Team Up to Help Transgender People Obtain Legal Name Changes in Atlanta
Transgender Legal Defense & Education Fund (TLDEF) is joining forces with Lambda Legal to collaborate on one of TLDEF’s signature programs, the Name Change Project.
TLDEF Files Brief in Support of Transgender Service Members Challenging Trump Administration’s Military Ban
Transgender Legal Defense & Education Fund has filed an amicus or “friend of the court” brief with the United States federal court in Washington, D.C. in support of transgender troops who are challenging the ban on open transgender military service. Last July, Trump announced the ban via Twitter.
TLDEF Condemns DOJ Memo Sanctioning Anti-LGBTQ Discrimination Under the Guise of “Religious Liberty”
Transgender Legal Defense & Education Fund condemns in the strongest possible terms the memo issued by Attorney General Jeff Sessions today, deceptively titled “Federal Law Protections For Religious Liberty.”
TLDEF Condemns Action by AG Sessions to Rescind Workplace Protections for Transgender Americans
Transgender Legal Defense & Education Fund today denounces Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ decision to roll back a federal policy recognising trans protections. The policy, announced in a 2014 Department of Justice memo during the Obama Administration, recognised that transgender employees are protected under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
TLDEF Mourns the Loss of LGBTQ Rights Icon Edie Windsor
Transgender Legal Defense & Education Fund today joins millions of LGBTQ Americans and our allies in voicing our sorrow that LGBTQ Rights champion Edie Windsor has passed away.