On Sunday, November 20, Family Equality Council joins with our partners in commemorating The Transgender Day of Remembrance and will take time to remember those in our community who have lost their lives to violence. As we reflect on the many strides the LGBT community has made in recent months, we also are faced with [...]

Aside from brief work trips over the years and a period where I lived in New Jersey and commuted into the city, it’s been 12 years since I’ve actually lived in New York.  A dozen years ago is also the last time I went to Pride. Intellectually, I knew this year’s Pride parade was going [...]

Today the House of Representatives in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts honored the Massachusetts Transgender Political Coalition for their commitment to fighting for justice, equality, and safety on behalf of transgender people. This is a very deserving honor for an organization that has shown exemplary leadership in ending discrimination on the basis of gender identity and [...]

A recent poll indicates that 76% of Massachusetts voters support passing a law prohibiting discrimination against transgender people in employment, housing, and public accommodations. Back on April 7, 2009 the entire Boston staff of Family Equality Council lobbied at the Massachusetts Statehouse in support of House No. 1728, a bill aimed at ending hate crimes [...]

We are happy to present a guest post by Paige Schilt. Paige is an activist, mama, part-time professor, and a contributing writer at The Bilerico Project. Her personal blog is How to Bring Your Kids Up Queer. This post is cross-posted at the Bilerico Project. A while back, I attended a workshop for LGBT families. [...]

Jennifer Finney Boylan is a transgender woman, parent, spouse and author of ten books. She recently told her family story in the New York Times’s column, “Modern Love.” Jenny gives a wonderful account of a family dealing with change, starting right around the time her young children dubbed her “Maddy.” Her article is a compelling [...]

While Easter might have come and gone, people are still talking about the White House Easter Egg Roll. In this guest post Justin Tanis, Community Education and Outreach Manager at National Center for Transgender Equality (NCTE), talks about his visit to this year’s Egg Roll with a group that included a trans child. NCTE, alongwith [...]

  Last Tuesday, April 7, the entire Boston staff of Family Equality Council lobbied at the Massachusetts Statehouse in support of House No. 1728, a bill aimed at ending hate crimes and discrimination based on gender identity and expression. (Sexual orientation is already included in current law.) If passed, the bill would prohibit discrimination against [...]

The following is a message from our friends at the National Center for Transgender Equality (NCTE): NCTE in collaboration with the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force has already heard from more than 6,000 transgender and gender non-conforming people about the discrimination we face. We need you to be part of this historic study that [...]

Anti-LGBT measures passed in four states last November, including Prop 8 in California. These measures, juxtaposed with the election of Barack Obama, gave the impression of major setbacks in our struggle for justice and equality. On the contrary, the struggle for justice and equality is alive and well in the 50 states. So much pro-equality [...]