National Center for Transgender Equality

Patient Privacy: HIPAA Explained

This explainer provides a high-level overview of these protections and the statutes that establish such rights, certain ...
National Center for Transgender Equality

The Parties have agreed to resolve the case of Anna Lange v. Houston County Georgia., Case No. 5:19-cv-00392-MTT.

[Houston County, GA] - The Parties have agreed to resolve the case of Anna Lange v. Houston County Georgia., Case No. 5:19-cv-00392-MTT. Sgt. Anna Lange is a transgender woman who has served as a ...
National Center for Transgender Equality

Advocates for Trans Equality Condemns Rollback of Equal Access Rule Protections

Today, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) released a proposed revised Equal Access Rule (EAR) that rolls back longstanding protections ensuring trans people can access ...
National Center for Transgender Equality

A4TE and LGBTQI+ Survivors Condemn Supreme Court Decision Undermining Protections for Youth from Conversion Therapy

[Washington, D.C.] - Advocates for Trans Equality (A4TE) and the law firm Emery Celli Brinckerhoff Abady Ward & Maazel respond today to the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Chiles v. Salazar, which ...
National Center for Transgender Equality

Victory! Federal Court Orders Preliminary Relief for Trans Plaintiffs in Class Action Against Aetna

[New Haven, CT] - Today, the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut enjoined Aetna Life Insurance Company’s (Aetna) exclusion of gender-affirming transition-related facial ...
National Center for Transgender Equality

A4TE Statement on Reintroduction of Trans Bill of Rights Resolution

[Washington, D.C.] – Today, U.S. Rep Pramila Jayapal of Washington and U.S. Sen Edward Markey of Massachusetts reintroduced the Trans Bill of Rights, and Advocates for Trans Equality celebrates the ...
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A4TE and Coalition of National and Grassroots Organizations to Condemn Marjorie Taylor Greene Bill H.R. 3492

[Washington, D.C.] - In response to H.R. 3492, which seeks to criminalize safe and evidence-based transition-related health care for trans and gender-diverse youth, Advocates for Trans Equality (A4TE) ...
National Center for Transgender Equality

A4TE Urges Supreme Court to Uphold Trans Students’ Right to Participate in School Sports

[Washington, D.C.] – Advocates for Trans Equality (A4TE) and co-counsel Tucker Ellis LLP filed a friend-of-the-court brief in State of West Virginia v. B.P.J. and Hecox v. Little, two companion cases ...
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A4TE Releases 2025 Trans Day of Remembrance Report

[Washington, D.C.] – Ahead of Trans Day of Remembrance on November 20, Advocates for Trans Equality (A4TE) released its 2025 Remembrance Report, honoring fifty-eight known trans people who have passed ...
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A4TE Responds to Eleventh Circuit Decision Upholding Discriminatory Health Care Exclusion

[Atlanta, GA] – Last evening, the US Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit issued its ruling in Lange vs. Houston County, a challenge brought by a transgender woman against her employer for ...
National Center for Transgender Equality

U.S. Senate Passes Budget Bill with Cuts to Health Care for Millions

Washington, D.C. –Today, the U.S. Senate passed H.R. 1, the Budget Reconciliation Bill, after days of debate, with major cuts to Medicaid and Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) that will ...
National Center for Transgender Equality

U.S. House moves to criminalize consensual gender-affirming care, endorse nonconsensual intersex surgeries

Washington, D.C. - Today, H.R. 3492, a Congressional bill criminalizing gender-affirming care while endorsing intersex genital mutilation, was approved by the House Judiciary Committee. The ...