Press Releases
For Immediate Release: Creating Culturally Competent Transgender Health Across Texas
TransForward – Texas Transgender Health, Equality Texas Foundation, and Texas Health Institute Launch Team 1,000 On Thursday October 24, 2017, TransForward – Texas Transgender Health, Equality Texas Foundation, and Texas Health Institute (THI) proudly launched the TransForward – Creating Culturally Competent Transgender Health website. LINK: transforward.texashealthinstitute.org A majority of the
Equality Texas Welcomes Three New Staff Members to Their Statewide Team
Equality Texas is pleased to announce the appointments of Rachel Adams Gonzales, Javier Osorio, and Kimberly Shappley. All three new staff members are individuals with proven records in advocating for fairness and equality issues, who will work on education, base building, and organizational development inside and outside of the organization
Creating Culturally Competent Transgender Health Environments Across Texas
Texas Transgender Health Program is a collaborative effort organized by Equality Texas Foundation and Texas Health Institute to improve the health of transgender, gender non-binary, and Intersex Texans. The primary goal is to reduce the number of suicides and suicide attempts by transgender people. The National Center for Transgender Equality’s
For Immediate Release: Equality Texas’ Statement Denouncing the Trump Administration’s Plan to End DACA
TEXAS – Equality Texas is the largest statewide organization dedicated solely to securing full equality for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer Texans through political action, education, community organizing, and collaboration. Our organization knows first hand how the Latinx LGBTQ community is experiencing an intense and complicated time living within
For Immediate Release: Trump Signs Discriminatory Anti-Transgender Military Directive
Today President Trump signed an unnecessary and divisive directive that bans the military from recruiting transgender service members, and bans the Department of Defense from providing necessary medical care for current transgender service members. At press time, it is unclear if currently serving members will be able to continue since
