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, community organizing and public policy efforts.

TLDEF's Name Change Project Featured in the New York Times - NYC Declared "Capital" of Name Changes for Transgender People!

TLDEF's Name Change Project Featured in the New York Times - NYC Declared

Jan. 25, 2010 - Today's print edition of the New York Times features a tremendous article on TLDEF's Name Change Project. It's tremendous not just in that it features lengthy interviews with four Name Change Project participants – Em, Katherine, Kit & Roberta. It's that the article makes clear that the movement for transgender rights is experiencing tremendous growth. And that it recognizes that a project like ours - providing free and low-cost legal name changes to community members in partnership with some... more