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Transgender Legal Defense and Education Fund

Overview
Headquarters: 
New York, NY, USA
Founded: 
2003
Populations Served: 
Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender
About Us
Mission: 

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, and public policy efforts.

Programs: 

Our strategies include pathbreaking trans rights cases and "friend of the court" briefs regarding the key issues of employment, health care, education and public accommodations. We seek to coordinate with traditional civil rights organizations and other LGBT civil rights organizations. We also provide public education on transgender rights.   

Our Name Change Project provides pro bono legal name change services to community members through partnerships with some of nation's premier law firms and corporate law departments.

industry: 
Nonprofit