Reports & Research
The Task Force's Policy Institute conducts groundbreaking research and policy analysis on hot-button issues affecting the LGBT community. We have everything from full reports to fact sheets to our very popular graphic issue maps. (Now in black and white AND color!)
If you know exactly what you’re looking for, it’s probably easiest for you to go to a particular section right off the bat: reports, issue maps, or fact sheets. But if you're not sure, or just want to look around, go to the main "Reports and Research" page . Under the "Featured Report" you'll see a search bar. You can either search for a report by name, or by type of report or by a particular issue. If you want to see everything we have to offer—and it is a lot—just look under the search bar. All of our publications are listed there in chronological order.
The Task Force and the Task Force Action Fund are continually coming out with new publications, so check back often for the latest up-to-the-minute facts and figures.
National Transgender Discrimination Survey
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Transgender and gender non-comforming people face shocking levels of discrimination in employment, education, health care and other areas. Read the just released results of this groundbreaking survey.
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September 13, 2013In the summer of 2013, the United States Supreme Court handed down its most sweeping LGBT rights case to date, striking down the Defense of Marriage Act’s (DOMA) definitions of marriage and spouse. This publication looks back at the five cases that created the historical path that led the Court to where it is today.
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August 30, 2013Exploring how health care disparities and economic insecurity are compounded over the course of a lifetime and have devastating effects on lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) older adults.
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August 01, 2013“Still Serving in Silence: Transgender Service Members and Veterans in the National Transgender Discrimination Survey,” addresses employment, housing, education, access to health care, and identity documents for transgender service members and veterans.
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June 26, 2013United States map highlighting states with legal recognition of same-sex relationships.
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June 21, 2013United States map highlighting state laws that ban discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and/or gender identity.
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June 21, 2013This United States map highlights states with laws that address hate crimes based on sexual orientation and/or gender identity.
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June 03, 2013State reports based on the National Transgender Discrimination Survey, fielded by the National Center for Transgender Equality (NCTE) and the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force.
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May 15, 2013This United States map indicates which states have prohibited same-sex relationships by statute and/or constitutional amendment.
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April 23, 2013Regional reports based on the National Transgender Discrimination Survey, fielded by the National Center for Transgender Equality (NCTE) and the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force.
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November 19, 2012The Task Force and Center for American Progress analyze the impact of potential cuts to the federal budget on the lives of LGBT people and their families.
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November 07, 2012
Patrick Paschall, policy counsel for the Task Force's Public Policy and Governmental Affairs programs, explains the full impact of the 2012 presidential election results for the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender policy agenda.
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October 08, 2012This break out publication of the National Transgender Discrimination Survey (NTDS) spotlights the particularly devastating results for American Indian and Alaskan Native transgender and gender non-conforming people due to the combined result of racism with anti-transgender bias.
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October 03, 2012Lisa Mottet, the Task Force's Transgender Civil Rights director, explains the full impact of the EEOC ruling in Macy v. Holder: Anti-trans employment discrimination constitutes sex discrimination.
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July 19, 2012This break out publication of the National Transgender Discrimination Survey (NTDS) spotlights the particularly devastating results for Asian American, South Asian, Southeast Asian, and Pacific Islander transgender and gender non-conforming people due to the combined result of racism with anti-transgender bias. Available in English as well as Chinese (Traditional), Hindi, Korean, Tagalog, Tamil, and Vietnamese.
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June 11, 2012A fact sheet that lists jurisdictions with nondiscrimination laws, including the population of each, and shows what percentage of the U.S. population is covered with such a law.
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April 23, 2012Published in the Harvard Kennedy School Journal of LGBTQ Policy, study spotlights the demographics and experiences of genderqueer respondents in the National Transgender Discrimination Survey.
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April 18, 2012This break out publication of the National Transgender Discrimination Survey [NTDS] spotlights the particularly devastating results for Latino and Latina transgender and gender non-conforming people because of the combined result of racism, anti-transgender bias, and often anti-immigrant sentiment. Available in both English and Spanish.
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March 12, 2012A bilingual guide showing how Latino/a and Hispanic lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people often face unique challenges within their families and churches.
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September 15, 2011The National Transgender Discrimination Survey [NTDS] results showed that transgender people faced bias that affects all areas of life. However, one of the most important findings was that the combination of anti-transgender with structural and individual racism meant that transgender people of color experience particularly devastating levels of discrimination.
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February 03, 2011This is the executive summary of our groundbreaking report, Injustice at Every Turn: A Report of the National Transgender Discrimination Survey.