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Today, Athlete Ally alongside National Center for Transgender Equality and other organizations responded to news that the American Medical Association has adopted a policy opposing the use of specific hormonal guidelines to determine gender classification for athletic competition as well as related eligibility requirements.

The National Center for Transgender Equality (NCTE) is pleased to announce that the deadline to take the U.S. Trans Survey has been extended to Monday, Dec. 5.

In partnership with TLDEF, eight transgender women athletes filed a friend of the court brief with the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals in A.M. v. Indiana challenging Indiana’s transgender sports ban..

Yesterday, 6 transgender and nonbinary college and high school student athletes from across the United States met with the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights to discuss the urgent need to address sex-based discrimination in school sports.

Today, the National Center for Transgender Equality (NCTE) announced its launch of the 2022 U.S. Transgender Survey (USTS).

The US Department of Veterans Affairs today announced that it is closing the gap in survivor benefits for certain survivors of LGBTQ veterans, specifically those who were unable to wed until the 2015 Obergefell Supreme Court Decision.

The National Center for Transgender Equality (NCTE), the Transgender Law Center (TLC), and the Transgender Legal Defense and Education Fund (TLDEF), mark the impending close of the public comment period on the Biden-Harris Administration’s proposed Health and Human Services (HHS) regulation for Section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act.

The National Center for Transgender Equality (NCTE) and partners will launch the 2022 U.S. Transgender Survey (USTS), the largest survey of transgender people in the United States, at ustranssurvey.org on Oct. 19 at 9 a.m. ET.

TLDEF will honor Willkie Farr & Gallagher and volunteer attorney Stefan Dann for their long-standing pro bono service in support of advancing legal equity for transgender people.

The Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed a district court’s preliminary injunction in Brandt v. Rutledge, a case challenging Arkansas Act 626, which would deny transgender people under 18 medically necessary, gender affirming health care.

The Biden-Harris administration today announced that the White House will hold a summit in September focused on hate and extremism.

Eight-five national, state, and local organizations, led by National Center for Transgender Equality (NCTE), Transgender Law Center (TLC), and Transgender Legal Defense and Education Fund (TLDEF), announced the next phase of the Protect Trans Health campaign.