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Fifteen states and Washington, D.C., currently have trans-inclusive state athletic association guidance, and years of open participation by transgender students in those places have produced no evidence of purported harms to cisgender people. Meanwhile,...

The incoming Biden administration has stated its commitment to advancing LGBTQ equality, which will require undoing the harms caused during the last four years and by generations of discrimination, as well as proactively championing a progressive agenda...

Introduction and summary : Data collection is an indispensable tool to understand and address challenges facing LGBTQI+ and other sexual and gender-diverse communities. Although strides have been made in recent years, a persistent lack of routine data c...

The President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, or PEPFAR, was launched in 2003 and represents a significant U.S. investment in HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment efforts abroad. The investment's effectiveness was undercut, however, by the Bush administr...

Discrimination and unequal treatment on the job inflicts significant economic harm on gay and transgender public-sector employees and their families. Discrimination against gay and transgender workers introduces costly inefficiencies and thereby imposes...

This report offers a snapshot of how the U.S. criminal justice system not only fails transgender people, but also targets them. As shown in the graphics on the previous two pages, transgender and gender non-conforming people face high levels of discrimi...

Among the many population groups that pay an especially high price for the failures of the U.S. criminal justice system are LGBT people, including LGBT people of color and low-income LGBT people. As this report makes clear, efforts to reform the crimin...