Tag: transgender
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.
Growing number of kids in Denmark change their gender
More than twice as many minors as expected have expressed a desire to change their gender this year.
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.
Transgender asylum seeker attacked by five men in Stockholm
Tuesday last week Suma was attacked when she was sitting and waiting for the subway on the way home from RFSL meeting (Swedens LGBTQ organisation).
Acceptance Is the Greatest Gift This Year in Norway
The dad looks up from the gift and across to where his transgender daughter is sitting and pulling uncomfortably at the sleeves of her sweater.
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.