New Law Ensures that Death Certificates Will Accurately Record Gender for All Yesterday Rhode Island became the third jurisdiction to adopt a law to ensure transgender ... Read More

GLAD Applauds Maine Legislature’s Vote to Ban Conversion Therapy; Calls on Governor to Sign     Maine’s House and Senate voted today on final passage of a ban on ... Read More

Republican Governor signs bipartisan legislation making NH the 19th state with explicit protections for transgender people and the 14th state to protect youth from conversion ... Read More

On June 5, 2018, the Kittery, Maine School Committee unanimously passed a policy protecting transgender and gender expansive students – a critical step forward for ... Read More

On May 3, the Connecticut legislature passed SB13 An Act Concerning Fair Treatment of Incarcerated Persons, which includes some of the strongest protections in the ... Read More

In a bipartisan 14-10 vote, the New Hampshire Senate today passed HB 1319, a bill that will provide explicit comprehensive nondiscrimination protections for transgender people ... Read More

Today, GLAD honors GLSEN’s annual Day of Silence, a student-led national event to raise awareness of and to peacefully protest the bullying and harassment of ... Read More

Statement of GLAD Senior Staff Attorney Patience Crozier GLAD congratulates Connecticut for closing the Connecticut Training School, the last large youth prison in the state. This ... Read More

The American Medical Association recently issued a powerful letter in support of transgender servicemembers, affirming that “[t]here is no medically valid reason… to exclude transgender ... Read More

In a unanimous 9-0 vote, the Framingham Public Schools Committee adopted this week a groundbreaking school policy ensuring transgender students are fully included in athletics. ... Read More