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Publications & Resources

  • Trans Aging: We're Still Here!

    Trans Seniors

    It’s not easy getting older, but transgender and gender-nonconforming (TGNC) people have especially good reasons to know their legal rights as they enter their Golden Years. The discrimination and violations of physical privacy that plague most TGNC people when they are younger become more and more likely, especially with increased reliance on the health care system

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  • Survival Tips for Trans Youth

    Survival Tips for Trans Youth

    Transgender and gender-nonconforming (TGNC) youth face serious legal obstacles, and many endure discrimination and violence on a daily basis, whether in school, health care or the criminal justice system.

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  • Why Federal Courts Matter to the LGBT Community

    Federal courts play a crucial role in the lives of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender people and those with HIV. Across the country, federal courts are deciding cases involving access to health care, employment protections, safety in schools, the freedom to marry, parenting rights, and family protections for same-sex couples.

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  • Impact Magazine Summer 2012

    "Impact Magazine Summer 2012" cover

    Friends and Family throughout the country are making Pride plans—figuring out what to wear, which train or whose car to take, whether to bring the stroller or the dogs, the best vantage point to enjoy the festivities, where to go afterward to continue the celebration. The crowds, the energy and the astonishing diversity and creativity in our community all bring emotional uplift.

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  • Plaintiffs in Sevcik v. Sandoval

    Meet Beverly and Mary, Antioco and Theodore, Karen and Karen, Fletcher and Greg, Mikyla and Katrina, Adele anf Tara, Caren and Farrell, and Megan and Sara

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  • Workplace Rights & Wrongs

    Workplace Rights & Wrongs

    Getting and keeping a regular job is out of reach for many transgender and gender-nonconforming (TGNC) people, and sometimes steady employment is no better: Whether accused of using the “wrong” bathroom, harassed for not matching one gender stereotype or another, or being the only one in the offi ce turned down for medically necessarily health care, TGNC employees often endure humiliating treatment and unfair policies every day of the week.

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  • Transgender Parents

    Transgender Parents

    Thousands of children around the United States have parents who are transgender, an umbrella term used to describe people whose gender identity—one’s inner sense of being male or female—differs from the sex assigned or presumed at birth.

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  • Impact Magazine Winter 2012

    "Impact Magazine Winter 2012" cover

    Features Transforming Injustice A historic win for transgender rightsin the workplace.

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  • Delaware Civil Union Law

    The Delaware Civil Union and Equality Act passed the state legislature in April 2011 and was signed by the Governor in May 2011. The law goes into effect on January 1, 2012. Below are answers to frequently asked questions about the new civil union law and what it means for Delawareans.

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  • Lambda Legal's State of the Law 2011

    From the end of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” to the passage of marriage equality in New York, 2011 was another momentous year of progress for LGBT rights and the rights of people with HIV. Here are the biggest events in the state of the law in 2011, according to Lambda Legal—as well as a tipsheet for what to watch for in 2012.

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