Attach to Form 990 or Form 990-EZ.
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| (i) Name of supported organization | (ii) EIN | (iii) Type of organization (described on lines 1- 10 above (see instructions)) | (iv) Is the organization listed in your governing document? | (v) Amount of monetary support (see instructions) | (vi) Amount of other support (see instructions) | |
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Calendar year (or fiscal year beginning in) ![]() |
(a) 2015 | (b) 2016 | (c) 2017 | (d) 2018 | (e) 2019 | (f) Total | |
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| 1 | Gifts, grants, contributions, and membership fees received. (Do not include any "unusual grant.") .. | 2,411,801 | 2,888,498 | 4,845,084 | 5,030,379 | 5,668,444 | 20,844,206 |
| 2 | Tax revenues levied for the organization's benefit and either paid to or expended on its behalf.... | 0 | |||||
| 3 | The value of services or facilities furnished by a governmental unit to the organization without charge.. | 0 | |||||
| 4 | Total. Add lines 1 through 3 | 2,411,801 | 2,888,498 | 4,845,084 | 5,030,379 | 5,668,444 | 20,844,206 |
| 5 | The portion of total contributions by each person (other than a governmental unit or publicly supported organization) included on line 1 that exceeds 2% of the amount shown on line 11, column (f).. | 4,075,666 | |||||
| 6 | Public support. Subtract line 5 from line 4. | 16,768,540 | |||||
Calendar year
(or fiscal year beginning in) ![]() |
(a) 2015 | (b) 2016 | (c) 2017 | (d) 2018 | (e) 2019 | (f) Total | |
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| 7 | Amounts from line 4.. | 2,411,801 | 2,888,498 | 4,845,084 | 5,030,379 | 5,668,444 | 20,844,206 |
| 8 | Gross income from interest, dividends, payments received on securities loans, rents, royalties and income from similar sources... | 22,460 | 23,364 | 24,271 | 41,147 | 49,010 | 160,252 |
| 9 | Net income from unrelated business activities, whether or not the business is regularly carried on.. | ||||||
| 10 | Other income. Do not include gain or loss from the sale of capital assets (Explain in Part VI.).. | 3,204 | 12,171 | 13,474 | 3,093 | 44,342 | 76,284 |
| 11 | Total support. Add lines 7 through 10 | 21,080,742 | |||||
Calendar year (or fiscal year beginning in) ![]() |
(a) 2015 | (b) 2016 | (c) 2017 | (d) 2018 | (e) 2019 | (f) Total | |
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| 1 | Gifts, grants, contributions, and membership fees received. (Do not include any "unusual grants.") . | ||||||
| 2 | Gross receipts from admissions, merchandise sold or services performed, or facilities furnished in any activity that is related to the organization's tax-exempt purpose | ||||||
| 3 | Gross receipts from activities that are not an unrelated trade or business under section 513 ..... | ||||||
| 4 | Tax revenues levied for the organization's benefit and either paid to or expended on its behalf... | ||||||
| 5 | The value of services or facilities furnished by a governmental unit to the organization without charge | ||||||
| 6 | Total. Add lines 1 through 5 | ||||||
| 7a | Amounts included on lines 1, 2, and 3 received from disqualified persons | ||||||
| b | Amounts included on lines 2 and 3 received from other than disqualified persons that exceed the greater of $5,000 or 1% of the amount on line 13 for the year. | ||||||
| c | Add lines 7a and 7b.. | ||||||
| 8 | Public support. (Subtract line 7c from line 6.) | ||||||
Calendar year (or fiscal year beginning in) ![]() |
(a) 2015 | (b) 2016 | (c) 2017 | (d) 2018 | (e) 2019 | (f) Total | |
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| 9 | Amounts from line 6... | ||||||
| 10a | Gross income from interest, dividends, payments received on securities loans, rents, royalties and income from similar sources.. | ||||||
| b | Unrelated business taxable income (less section 511 taxes) from businesses acquired after June 30, 1975. | ||||||
| c | Add lines 10a and 10b. | ||||||
| 11 | Net income from unrelated business activities not included in line 10b, whether or not the business is regularly carried on. | ||||||
| 12 | Other income. Do not include gain or loss from the sale of capital assets (Explain in Part VI.) .. | ||||||
| 13 | Total support. (Add lines 9, 10c, 11, and 12.).. | ||||||
| Section A - Adjusted Net Income | (A) Prior Year |
(B) Current Year (optional) |
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| 1 | Net short-term capital gain | 1 | ||||
| 2 | Recoveries of prior-year distributions | 2 | ||||
| 3 | Other gross income (see instructions) | 3 | ||||
| 4 | Add lines 1 through 3 | 4 | ||||
| 5 | Depreciation and depletion | 5 | ||||
| 6 | Portion of operating expenses paid or incurred for production or collection of gross income or for management, conservation, or maintenance of property held for production of income (see instructions) | 6 | ||||
| 7 | Other expenses (see instructions) | 7 | ||||
| 8 | Adjusted Net Income (subtract lines 5, 6 and 7 from line 4) | 8 | ||||
| Section B - Minimum Asset Amount | (A) Prior Year |
(B) Current Year (optional) |
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| 1 | Aggregate fair market value of all non-exempt-use assets (see instructions for short tax year or assets held for part of year): | 1 | ||||
| a | Average monthly value of securities | 1a | ||||
| b | Average monthly cash balances | 1b | ||||
| c | Fair market value of other non-exempt-use assets | 1c | ||||
| d | Total (add lines 1a, 1b, and 1c) | 1d | ||||
| e |
Discount claimed for blockage or other factors (explain in detail in Part VI): |
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| 2 | Acquisition indebtedness applicable to non-exempt use assets | 2 | ||||
| 3 | Subtract line 2 from line 1d | 3 | ||||
| 4 | Cash deemed held for exempt use. Enter 1-1/2% of line 3 (for greater amount, see instructions). | 4 | ||||
| 5 | Net value of non-exempt-use assets (subtract line 4 from line 3) | 5 | ||||
| 6 | Multiply line 5 by .035 | 6 | ||||
| 7 | Recoveries of prior-year distributions | 7 | ||||
| 8 | Minimum Asset Amount (add line 7 to line 6) | 8 | ||||
| Section C - Distributable Amount | Current Year | |||||
| 1 | Adjusted net income for prior year (from Section A, line 8, Column A) | 1 | ||||
| 2 | Enter 85% of line 1 | 2 | ||||
| 3 | Minimum asset amount for prior year (from Section B, line 8, Column A) | 3 | ||||
| 4 | Enter greater of line 2 or line 3 | 4 | ||||
| 5 | Income tax imposed in prior year | 5 | ||||
| 6 | Distributable Amount. Subtract line 5 from line 4, unless subject to emergency temporary reduction (see instructions) | 6 | ||||
| Section D - Distributions | Current Year | |
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| 1 Amounts paid to supported organizations to accomplish exempt purposes | ||
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Amounts paid to perform activity that directly furthers exempt purposes of supported organizations, in excess of income from activity |
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| 3 Administrative expenses paid to accomplish exempt purposes of supported organizations | ||
| 4 Amounts paid to acquire exempt-use assets | ||
| 5 Qualified set-aside amounts (prior IRS approval required) | ||
| 6 Other distributions (describe in Part VI). See instructions | ||
| 7Total annual distributions. Add lines 1 through 6. | ||
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Distributions to attentive supported organizations to which the organization is responsive (provide details in Part VI). See instructions |
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| 9 Distributable amount for 2019 from Section C, line 6 | ||
| 10 Line 8 amount divided by Line 9 amount | ||
| Section E - Distribution Allocations (see instructions) |
(i) Excess Distributions |
(ii) Underdistributions Pre-2019 |
(iii) Distributable Amount for 2019 |
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| 1 Distributable amount for 2019 from Section C, line 6 | ||||
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2
Underdistributions, if any, for years prior to 2019 (reasonable cause required-- explain in Part VI). See instructions. |
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| 3 Excess distributions carryover, if any, to 2019: | ||||
| a From 2014....... | ||||
| b From 2015....... | ||||
| c From 2016....... | ||||
| d From 2017....... | ||||
| e From 2018....... | ||||
| fTotal of lines 3a through e | ||||
| g Applied to underdistributions of prior years | ||||
| h Applied to 2019 distributable amount | ||||
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Carryover from 2014 not applied (see instructions) |
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| j Remainder. Subtract lines 3g, 3h, and 3i from 3f. | ||||
| 4Distributions for 2019 from Section D, line 7: | ||||
| $ | ||||
| a Applied to underdistributions of prior years | ||||
| b Applied to 2019 distributable amount | ||||
| c Remainder. Subtract lines 4a and 4b from 4. | ||||
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5
Remaining underdistributions for years prior to 2019, if any. Subtract lines 3g and 4a from line 2. If the amount is greater than zero, explain in Part VI. See instructions. |
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6
Remaining underdistributions for 2019. Subtract lines 3h and 4b from line 1. If the amount is greater than zero, explain in Part VI. See instructions. |
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7 Excess distributions carryover to 2020. Add lines 3j and 4c. |
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| 8 Breakdown of line 7: | ||||
| a Excess from 2015..... | ||||
| b Excess from 2016..... | ||||
| c Excess from 2017..... | ||||
| d Excess from 2018..... | ||||
| e Excess from 2019..... | ||||
| Facts And Circumstances Test |
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| Return Reference | Explanation |
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| Support Schedule: Other Income Explanation | From time to time, miscellaneous funds are received during the course of performing the organization's tax-exempt function. |
| Software ID: | 19009923 |
| Software Version: | 2019v5.0 |
Attach to Form 990 or 990-EZ.
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| Form 990, Part III, Line 4d: Other Program Services Description | OTHER PROGRAM SERVICES 4: TRUTH: TRUTH, our collaboration with GSA Network, has continued to empower TGNC youth across the U.S. Regional trainings for 20+ youth leaders, which ran through the summer and into September included trainings about healing and media skill-building workshops. As federal policy and state legislative attacks continue to target TGNC youth TRUTH continues to hold a critical role in raising up the voices, leadership and analysis of TGNC youth often absent in adult led campaigns. Youth spent the fall preparing to launch a campaign on the GSA Day for Gender Justice. The campaign in November focused on the first point of TRUTH's youth-created Nine-Point Platform: We Call for the Right to Self-Determination and Control of our Destinies. TRUTH participants created 18 new 'zines and 4 new podcasts shared online with peers, as well as participating in a range of social media visibility work highlighting local projects. Two TRUTH youth leaders recorded videos at the invitation of TransLash, which were shared as part of a Transgender Day of Remembrance/Resilience livecast supported by Samsung. TRUTH has also been increasingly focused on creating an intergenerational platform-working to build bridges with TGNC elders to strengthen bigger-picture organizing. OTHER PROGRAM SERVICES 5: TLC@SONG: Following the hire in March 2019 of accomplished activist Kayla Gore as the new Southern Regional Organizer, TLC@SONG released its Grapevine report. Kayla has been sharing the report with communities in the South, including at SONG's Bayard Rustin Convening (here we led a trans pre-convening), Gaycation, and annual Queer Southern Revival. The report has also been shared widely with the membership bases of both TLC and SONG. TLC@SONG has continued to support and engage with a range of TGNC community members and leaders in the South. OTHER PROGRAM SERVICES 6: BLACK LGBTQIA+ MIGRANT PROJECT: Along with TLC and 12 other groups, BLMP submitted a complaint to DHS detailing medical neglect of 20 LGBTQ+ and HIV+ migrants in detention centers, demanding the release of all LGBTQ and HIV+ migrants, and calling for accountability for private detention centers. The complaint was introduced as testimony during 2 congressional hearings on detention conditions, which highlighted for members of congress how anti-blackness, homo/transphobia, ableism and HIV stigma render LGBTQ migrants in detention more vulnerable to human rights abuses. With other groups, we co-led a Twitter townhall to raise the voices of Black LGBTQ+ migrants and broader Black communities during HRC's presidential forum. Consequently, we were able to interject our experiences, issues and vision in an arena where Black and/or LGBTQ+ migration are rarely talked about. We continue to support several detained migrants by connecting them to legal representation, commissary support, bond funds, and mobilization efforts to enhance their legal cases. Post-detention, we provide connections to resources that aid in housing, healthcare, emergency funds, and community. Detainees in the "trans pod" at the Cibola detention center were transferred to CO and WA, and we have had to put extra effort into keeping track of people when they are moved. We continue our organizing efforts to get them released. We convened the Black Migrant Working Group, a coalition of organizations working to protect and defend Black migrant communities across the country. We fought for justice for N, a Cameroonian migrant who died in ICE custody in October. We raised funds for his family to bury him in dignity and provide for his 3 children. Recently, we issued a statement decrying the exclusion of undocumented/under-documented migrants from the COVID economic stimulus package. Our local networks have continued to grow, breaking isolation, and building leadership, while our recently launched Queer Black Migrant narrative will be instrumental in reshaping the migration narrative. BLMP New York City held its first planning retreat in November 2019 and engaged nearly 30 people in its first Garifuna LGBTQ+ migrants meeting this Spring. Through community building events, BLMP Bay Area created a leadership body and successfully fought for the return of O, a gay Black migrant from Chad who was illegally deported. BLMP Minneapolis co-anchored a Black migration event with Rep. Ilhan Omar. While in Houston, we won the establishment of an immigrants' public defense fund. We completed the design of our Queer Black Migrant Survey, recruited and trained leaders from the eight cities identified to anchor data collection across the country. We launched the survey, which is generating critically-needed data to support our efforts. At the national level we have built up our movement and educated and engaged allied movements. 30 members participated in our annual Organizing Institute. We organized an Afrolatinx migrants gathering; led sessions on migrant justice at Southerners On New Ground's OutSouth conference and Creating Change; participated in the "Immigration at the Intersections" convening in DC; and engaged 60+ people in a Houston, TX community forum about the Africa/Muslim Travel Ban. OTHER PROGRAM SERVICES 7: |
| Form 990, Part VI, Line 4: Description of Significant Changes to Organizational Documents | TLC revised its By-Laws in 2019 to increase the terms of board members to three years and updated the address. |
| Form 990, Part VI, Line 11b: Form 990 Review Process | The Board reviews an electronic copy of the 990 after it has been reviewed by the Executive Director and Treasurer with the preparer. Each member of the Board is provided with an electronic copy of the draft 990 document, before it is filed. |
| Form 990, Part VI, Line 12c: Explanation of Monitoring and Enforcement of Conflicts | Each member of the Board is required to execute a conflict of interest statement upon joining the Board and annually thereafter. Conflicts of interest are reviewed by board members unrelated to the conflict, and members with conflicts of interest are required to recuse themselves from board decisions that involve these conflicts of interest. |
| Form 990, Part VI, Line 15a: Compensation Review & Approval Process - CEO, Top Management | The Executive Director's salary review is based on a survey of regional and industry comparable salaries, as benchmarked by nonprofit compensation studies, and approved by a committee of the Board. This process was last conducted in 2019. |
| Form 990, Part VI, Line 15b: Compensation Review and Approval Process for Officers and Key Employees | Annual salary reviews of other officers and key employees are based on survey of regional and industry comparable salaries, as benchmarked by nonprofit compensation studies. This process was last conducted in 2019. |
| Form 990, Part VI, Line 19: Other Organization Documents Publicly Available | The Organization makes its governing documents, conflict of interest policy, and financial statements available to the public upon request. |
| Form 990, Part III, Line 4a - Program Service Accomplishments | (cont'd from Page 2) and to have access to financial resources upon release to support her re-entry. Building on this case, in November 2019, we filed TLC's first-ever class action Raven, et al. V. Polis, et al., to address the systemic abuse of all (approximately 170) incarcerated trans women in Colorado. Our complaint seeks damages and injunctive relief related to CDOC's exclusion of trans women from Colorado's women's prison; CDOC's failure to provide trans-competent medical and mental health providers, and its failure to provide adequate medical treatment for gender dysphoria, including surgery; CDOC's failure to protect trans women from sexual assault and anti-trans violence; CDOC's refusal to use proper names, pronouns, and honorifics for trans women; and CDOC's policy of assigning male staff to conduct pat-downs and strip searches of trans women. Criminalization: TLC has stepped up work on criminalization. In Tennessee, we are supporting counsel for "B," a transgender woman who is facing murder charges. TLC@SONG helped to secure B's release from pretrial detention via a bail fund. While responding to a request for technical assistance, we discovered that B was a victim of human trafficking, and that the person B allegedly killed was trafficking her into sex work. Further, the alleged murder was caught on tape, showing that it was clear self-defense. With this new information, B's attorney was able to secure an adjournment that will give more time to prepare her case. As TLC's legal staff considered this case, we realized how often trans women are arrested and punished for acts of self-defense, and are looking at ways to strengthen our work on this issue so that vulnerable trans people are not victimized twice. In North Carolina, we met with a 15-year-old Black trans girl and her mother. A partner had reached out to us about the girl, on the understanding that she had been convicted of distribution of child pornography by sharing photos of herself, and there was concern she would need to register as a sex offender. She was released from juvenile detention in November, returned to high school, and was not required to register as a sex offender. We are looking further into her case to be able to advise the family going forward. Immigration: In our ongoing litigation against ICE for the wrongful death in immigration detention in New Mexico of Roxsana Hernandez, an HIV+ transgender woman, we filed a lawsuit in October 2019 against CoreCivic, a contractor of Cibola County, after we learned that they may have deleted video of Roxsana at the facility, despite the ongoing investigation. In November, we filed a Federal Tort Claims Act administrative complaint, a prerequisite to filing an FTCA suit in federal court. The complaint included the facts, claims, and potential witnesses for the court case. We are gearing up for the court filing by seeking needed experts, obtaining as many documents as possible from defendants through the FOIA and IPRA suits, and securing updated affidavits from caravan members detained with Roxsana. TLC continues to represent a number of vulnerable TGNC immigrants in a variety of immigration proceedings. Our representation of trans immigrants who have been trafficked has generated novel legal strategies and established a precedent that affects all immigrants, expanding the ability for people with serious criminal convictions related to being trafficked to obtain asylum. Among our cases, TLC successfully supported "C," a trans immigrant and victim of trafficking who had been held in solitary confinement for long stretches of time. C was subject to deportation because of having more than one criminal conviction. Although the process was complex, TLC was able to have one of the convictions vacated because it was tied to C being a victim of trafficking. As a result, C was no longer deportable and his immigration case was terminated. We are now waiting for C to be released from detention. In addition, we signed onto and supported the drafting of an amicus brief on behalf of a trans woman who lost her asylum case because she delayed telling her attorney that she was transgender. The brief was filed in July 2019. Finally, in September 2019, we joined a brief submitted by La Clinica de la Raza and others opposing the Department of Homeland Security's new "public charge" rule. Healthcare Access: We secured a favorable, confidential settlement in Prescott v. Rady Children's Hospital. This suit was brought by TLC with the National Center for Lesbian Rights as co-counsel on behalf of the mother of a trans boy who was admitted to the hospital for help regarding suicidal ideation, repeatedly misgendered while in care despite the mother's intervention, and discharged. He died by suicide a short time later. This case secured an important ruling that the Affordable Care Act's sex discrimination protections apply to transgender kids. We also joined an amicus brief in Minton v. Dignity Health, a lawsuit filed by the ACLU against a Catholic hospital in California that abruptly cancelled a hysterectomy on religious grounds upon learning the patient was transgender. In September 2019, the appeals court found in Plaintiff's favor, recognizing that Dignity Health had a duty to prevent discrimination against Mr. Minton. Defendants sought review from the Supreme Court of California, which was denied in December. We have also joined a number of amicus briefs in multiple cases challenging new federal "conscience rights" that undermine nondiscrimination in health care. Other cases: TLC also advanced other cases addressing issues include public accommodations and identity documents, and submitted or joined amicus briefs in key cases, including Grimm v. Gloucester Co. School Board at the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals and the Title VII cases being heard by U.S. Supreme Court. Legal Helpdesk: TLC's Legal Helpdesk responded to 1,324 requests for assistance, and our Prison Mail Program responded to 509. TLC's Legal Services Project has had significant success in engaging interns and recruiting volunteers through a variety of new sources, including the national We the Action network and a pilot partnership with the firm Kirkland & Ellis. We sustained the national legal clinics calendar on our web site and continued to research and update legal resources to address community needs. |
| Form 990, Part III, Line 4b - Program Service Accomplishments | (cont'd from Page 2) For example, we partnered with the Black LGBTQIA+ Migrant Project (BLMP) to organize a Southern convening in Atlanta, GA, bringing together 45 participants. We organized two convenings to develop the leadership and support the strategy of the National TGNC Coalition of 25-30 TGNC leaders working on the Trans Agenda for Liberation. In August, as part of the Black Trans Circles project, we held a training for approximately 20 Black trans women from New Orleans and surrounding areas, including Baton Rouge. In December, we organized a groundbreaking LGBTQ disability NTI for 13 participants. This is the first such event that anyone involved knows of created by and for queer and trans disabled people. This group will serve as the Community Advisory Board for an ongoing disability project. In January 2020, TLC staff and National Coalition members worked together to host the Trans Institute at Creating Change, including the "soft launch" of the Trans Agenda for Liberation. In June 2019 as part of the #justiceforroxsana campaign with Familia TQLM and BLMP we partnered with local leaders in El Paso to organize a protest and day of action raising up the injustices faced by LGBT migrants, particularly due to the death of a second trans migrant, Joanna Medina, and challenging violence against trans people generally, using the message #stonewallisnow. During World Pride in New York City, TLC was given the opportunity to make the #stonewallisnow message visible through a 10 second rotating billboard in Times Square. With 13 other LGBTQ and human rights partners, we have filed a complaint with the Dept. of Homeland Security and other agencies on medical neglect of LGBTQ and HIV+ migrants in detention. The complaint was introduced as testimony in two Congressional hearings and has also been turned into a sign-on, garnering support from an additional 47 organizations. In December 2019, we submitted a supplemental complaint about Roxsana's case specifically, after receiving documents that shed light on the repeated failure of CBP and ICE officials to provide her with medical care in violation of their own policies. We partnered with the National Center for Transgender Equality (NCTE) to create the Protect Trans Health campaign in response to the May 24, 2019 announcement that the Department of Health and Human Services planned to roll back the Health Care Rights Law, an Obama-era regulation making it clear that discrimination against transgender people by providers, hospitals, and insurers is illegal. Our organizing to ensure public comment in favor of the law had an overwhelming impact - as of the August 13, 2019 deadline for public comments on the Trump administration's proposed rollback of a regulation protecting transgender people's access to health care, a national coalition of civil rights organizations collected over 132,400 comments in defense of transgender health - more than any other regulation since Regulation.Gov was launched in 2003. |
| Software ID: | 19009923 |
| Software Version: | 2019v5.0 |