Tag: transgender
TLDEF Set for The Freedom Awards – Celebrating 10 Years of Change
On Monday, June 1, The Transgender Legal Defense & Education Fund (TLDEF) will commemorate a decade of transgender advocacy at its Freedom Awards benefit. The event will honor the Golden Globe Award-winning television series Transparent, and long-time TLDEF partners BNY Mellon and Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP for their extraordinary contributions to the advancement of transgender rights. The Freedom Awards will be held at The Art Directors Club Gallery in Manhattan.
TLDEF Applauds Guidance Requiring Insurers to Provide Transgender People with Access to Sex-Specific Care Under Affordable Care Act
The Transgender Legal Defense & Education Fund (TLDEF) commends the U.S. Departments of Labor, Treasury, and Health and Human Services for issuing guidance yesterday stating that health insurance companies must cover sex-specific preventive care, including mammograms and pap smears, for transgender people. That care must be provided without regard to sex assigned at birth, gender identity, or recorded sex. Transgender people are routinely denied coverage when insurance companies arbitrarily determine that their care does not align with the sex listed in the insurer’s records. The guidance states that insurance companies must cover the medically necessary care transgender people need:
When My Boyfriend Was A Girl, A Transgender Love Story
They were both looking for love. She is a bisexual woman, he is a transgendered man.
The key to unlocking LGBTI equality in Europe
Steadfast, committed leadership and visible equality trailblazers are necessary ingredients for advancing LGBTI equality according to the latest Rainbow Europe package, released today (Sunday, 10 May 2015) by ILGA-Europe. Our 2015 Rainbow Map, Annual Review and brand new Rainbow Europe web module all showcase the power that committed leadership to LGBTI rights can wield.
More than a third of transgender Canadian youth have attempted suicide: Survey
More than a third of transgender Canadians between the ages of 14 and 25 say they’ve attempted suicide, according to a new survey.
Hawaii makes it easier to change gender on paper
The Hawaii Legislature has passed a bill that could make it a lot easier for transgender people to change their gender on their birth certificates.