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The National Center for Transgender Equality (NCTE) and the Transgender Legal Defense and Education Fund (TLDEF) officially announced their intent to merge and create a new organization called Advocates for Trans Equality (A4TE).

The National Center for Transgender Equality and the Transgender Legal Defense and Education Fund will join forces by this summer.

We crafted TransRemembrance.org as a digital memorial for both grieving and celebrating those we’ve lost. In our period of grief, we persist. We pay tribute to and exalt the existences of those who have departed, and our brilliance remains unaltered.

“Houston County’s choice to waste time and resources on this appeal with the hope of continuing a blatantly unequal policy is shameful,” said plaintiff Anna Lange.

At least 53 trans people were lost to violence since November 2022. This report emphasizes the need to broaden the perspective on gender identity and expression and ensure the memorialization of all lost community members.

Longtime Midwestern LGBTQ+ state policy leader Alana Jochum will join the organization as its inaugural policy director.

“I am thrilled to know that none of my trans colleagues will ever have to go through what I did,” said Micha Rich (he/they), employee of a Georgia government agency and a plaintiff in the lawsuit.

Come celebrate our 20th Anniversary at the Trans Equality Now (TEN) Awards on Friday, October 27! Join us in Washington, D.C. Together, we’ll pay tribute to all we’ve accomplished and envision what’s possible for our future. 

Transgender Legal Defense and Education Fund (TLDEF) announced that it has resolved a complaint on behalf of career federal employee Kelly Shaw, a transgender woman who was denied necessary facial surgery prescribed by her medical provider.

A Black transgender woman who sued officials in Broome County, N.Y., over discrimination, violence, and denial of medical care while incarcerated has won a landmark settlement.

Broome County will adopt new policies affirming the rights of transgender people in the jail after a woman said she was discriminated against while in custody at the jail.

Makyyla Holland (she/her/hers), a 25-year-old Black transgender woman, reached a landmark settlement with Broome County following violence, denial of medical care, and discrimination inflicted on her at the Broome County Jail because she is transgender.