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Amici include ten legal scholars and historians with expertise in the history of gender, sexuality, and LGBTQ+ rights. The brief underscores the longstanding history of de jure discrimination—that is, discrimination by the legal system—against transgender people.

Ahead of Trans Day of Remembrance on November 20, Advocates for Trans Equality (A4TE) released its 2025 Remembrance Report, honoring fifty-eight known trans people who have passed away this year.

Advocates for Trans Equality—its staff and community of advocates for transgender rights—deeply mourn the passing of Miss Major, who spent her entire life as a leading force in the fight for the rights and visibility of Black trans women and other trans women of color.

The U.S. Senate passed H.R. 1, the Budget Reconciliation Bill, after days of debate, with major cuts to Medicaid and Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) that will impact millions of Americans, including thousands of trans people.

The decision departs from decades of the Court’s precedent and gives the plaintiff parents in Montgomery County, Maryland maintaining anti-LGBTQI+ beliefs a right to insulate their children from LGBTQI+-inclusive storybooks or instruction.

On June 18, the Supreme Court issued a disappointing ruling that upholds Tennessee’s SB1—a ban on transition-related healthcare for trans youth. The Court sided with Tennessee to affirm the Sixth Circuit, agreeing that the law doesn’t discriminate on the basis of sex or transgender status and therefore only needs a legitimate justification to stand.

On June 16, the Senate Finance Committee released their prospective budget text. Like the recently passed House bill, it would also exclude trans healthcare from Medicaid and essential health benefit coverage. This care is both medically necessary and based on decades of research. Learn why essential health benefits must continue covering trans healthcare.

The legislation would restrict lifesaving care for many trans adolescents by wrongly categorizing and criminalizing gender-affirming care under existing law that prohibits “female genital mutilation” (FGM).

Family support and social acceptance are crucial to trans people’s health and wellbeing, shows a new report released today by the Advocates for Trans Equality Education Fund (A4TE).

The budget proposal would strip lifesaving care from people who depend on Medicaid – a population already vulnerable to systemic discrimination and economic instability. Senate must say no and protect our healthcare.