The COVID-19 pandemic presents a series of unique challenges that may have long-term impact on transgender people and their families. TLDEF has prepared a series of "Know Your Rights" guides for transgender and non-binary people who are confronted by COVID-19 and questions related to employment, housing, health care, identification, and accessing assistance from government agencies among other issues. ... more
A U.S. District Court judge today denied North Carolina state officials' request to dismiss a lawsuit filed last March challenging North Carolina's blanket exclusion of medically necessary transition-related health care from the state's employee health plan. In the lawsuit, TLDEF and Lambda Legal represent several current and former state employees and their children who were denied coverage under the plan.... more
TLDEF announced the launch of a new initiative designed to combat the systematic and pervasive health insurance discrimination facing transgender people across the nation. LDEF staff attorney Noah Lewis to serve as Director of the Trans Health Project. ... more
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. ... more
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.... more