A U.S.-focused nonprofit advocacy organization that works to advance legal equality, nondiscrimination protections, access to gender-affirming healthcare, and social acceptance for transgender and gender-diverse people through policy advocacy, public education, litigation support, and community organizing.
Transgender and gender-diverse civil-rights and anti-discrimination laws; access to gender-affirming medical care and insurance coverage; reforms to identity-document and name-change processes; school and youth protections; workplace and housing nondiscrimination; public accommodations and criminal-justice reforms that reduce harm to trans people.
Primarily funded by individual donations, philanthropic foundation grants, membership and grassroots fundraising, and occasional government or partnership grants for programmatic work.
Frequently collaborates with national and state LGBTQ and civil-rights organizations and community leaders, such as state LGBTQ centers, ACLU affiliates, the National Center for Transgender Equality, and other regional advocacy groups.
non-profit advocacy organization