by Sue Yacka-Bible | Jun 12, 2020 | Featured, Health, Policy, Policy Desk, Press Releases
Today the Transgender Law Center (TLC) denounced a new rule handed down by the Trump administration that green lights discrimination by health care providers and insurers against transgender and gender nonconforming people (TGNC), especially those who live in states...
by admin | Mar 4, 2020 | Featured, Policy, Press Releases, TRUTH
This morning, the Arizona House of Representatives passed an extreme and regressive bill to ban trans youth from participating in school sports – and potentially require invasive medical screenings for all young athletes competing in sporting events. This bill...
by Anna Castro | Nov 1, 2019 | Featured, Health, Policy, Policy Desk, Positively Trans, Press Releases
Today the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced that they are stripping nondiscrimination protections, including protections based on sexual orientation and gender identity, in all HHS grants, which are composed of taxpayer dollars. The new proposal...
by Anna Castro | Sep 25, 2019 | BLMP, Featured, Immigration, Policy, Press Releases
Complaint submitted to Department of Homeland Security details horrifying abuse of 19 individuals at eight immigrant prisons around the United States Read the updated complaint here. ***Update as of 10/15/19: The complaint was amended to reflect that an additional 46...
by Anna Castro | Sep 16, 2019 | Employment, Featured, Policy, Press Releases
Last Friday, Transgender Law Center submitted a comment in strong opposition to the proposed rules by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance that would amend section 204(c) of Executive Order 11246. The proposed rule would allow federal...
by Anna Castro | Aug 14, 2019 | Featured, Health, Policy, Press Releases
As of the August 13 deadline for public comments on the Trump administration’s proposed rollback of a regulation protecting transgender people’s access to health care, a national coalition of civil rights organizations collected over 132,400 comments in defense of...
