Tag: USA
TLDEF Applauds New York Attorney General on Initiative to Ensure Equal Access to Medical Care for Transgender People
The Transgender Legal Defense & Education Fund commends New York Attorney General General Eric T. Schneiderman for launching a new initiative to ensure that transgender New Yorkers have equal access to medical care throughout the state. The initiative will provide programming to hospitals and medical centers on the legal requirements for treating transgender people in New York and best practices in providing care to this patient population.
TLDEF Commemorates International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia, and Biphobia
The Transgender Legal Defense & Education Fund joins activists around the world in marking Sunday’s International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia, and Biphobia, a day to bring attention to the ongoing discrimination and violence that LGBT people face around the world.
The Arc San Francisco Launches Anti-Bullying Campaign “It Stops With Us”
Learning center raising awareness about bullying in the LGBT and disability communities.
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.