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TLDEF responded to news today that the Supreme Court of the United States has agreed to hear three cases about LGBTQ employment discrimination, including aa case involving a Michigan transgender woman who was fired from her job at a funeral home because she is transgender.

announced the law firm Lowenstein Sandler LLP as its Pro Bono Partner of the Year. The award will be presented at this year's Trans Advocacy Awards on Tuesday, June 11, at the Manhattan Penthouse. The Trans Advocacy Awards serve as TLDEF's signature event that raises critical awareness and support for its work to advance equality for transgender and non-binary people nationwide.

Celebrate 16 years of legal advocacy at TLDEF's signature event, celebrating champions in our community and supporting our work to advance equality for transgender and non-binary people nationwide.

Transgender Legal Defense & Education Fund (TLDEF) Pro Bono partner Reed Smith today filed a court challenge to Pennsylvania's name change law. Attorneys at Reed Smith became aware of the need to bring this challenge after prior transgender clients referred by TLDEF were denied name changes under the unjust law.

TLDEF today filed a "friend of the court" brief with 33 other signatories in support of Aimee Stephens in her case before the U.S. Supreme Court. In 2013, a Michigan funeral home fired Ms. Stephens from her job because she is a transgender woman.

TLDEF today announced the appointment of David Brown as Legal Director, marking an important step in the growth of TLDEF’s team of lawyers fighting to confront the immense challenges facing transgender and non-binary people across the country.

organizations in demanding that the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) permanently halt implementation of a proposed new rule that would invite insurance companies, hospitals, doctors, nurses, and other providers to illegally deny patients care because of who they are, despite protections mandated by the Affordable Care Act.

TLDEF, The New York Civil Liberties Union, and the law firm BakerHostetler filed a lawsuit yesterday against Steuben County, the Steuben County Sheriff, and several officials and employees at the Steuben County Jail on behalf of a transgender woman whom jail officials housed in a men's facility while she was awaiting trial

TLDEF today filed a federal lawsuit against Houston County for excluding medically-necessary transgender-related health care from its employee health plan. The lawsuit is on behalf of Anna Lange, a Houston County, Georgia Sheriff’s Deputy who has been on the job for 13-years.

TLDEF announced the launch of a new initiative designed to combat the systematic and pervasive health insurance discrimination facing transgender people across the nation. TLDEF staff attorney Noah Lewis to serve as Director of the Trans Health Project.

Transgender Legal Defense & Education Fund (TLDEF)  and Lambda Legal filed a federal lawsuit against North Carolina officials today for discrimination in state employee health care. The North Carolina State Health Plan (NCSHP), the state employee health plan, categorically excludes coverage for gender-confirming health care. TLDEF and Lambda Legal are representing several current and former state employees and their children who were denied coverage under the plan for medically necessary health care because they are transgender.