Transgender Legal Defense & Education Fund is committed to ending discrimination based upon gender identity and expression and to achieving equality for transgender people through public education, test-case litigation, direct legal services, community organizing and public policy efforts.

Happy holidays from TLDEF!

Happy holidays from TLDEF!

Happy holidays!  Thank you for helping us to enrich and expand our work for equal rights in 2011.  This year saw significant advances for transgender rights at the local, state and federal levels, in legislatures and in courthouses around the country. 

At TLDEF, our workload expanded dramatically in 2011.  The year started off with significant improvements to the State Department’s policy guidelines for changing the sex marker on passports.  Before the thrilling passage of marriage... more