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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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, 2012This United States map highlights states with laws that address hate crimes based on sexual orientation and/or gender identity.
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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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January 20, 2012United States map highlighting state laws that ban discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and/or gender identity.
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October 04, 2011A 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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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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June 28, 2011United States map highlighting states with legal recognition of same-sex relationships.
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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.
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February 03, 2011Our groundbreaking report, Injustice at Every Turn: A Report of the National Transgender Discrimination Survey.
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October 13, 2010Transgender and gender non-conforming people face rampant discrimination in health care settings, are regularly denied needed care, and experience a range of health risks because they are transgender or gender non-conforming, according to this report of the National Transgender Discrimination Survey, conducted by the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force and the National Center for Transgender Equality.
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May 25, 2010Our Maturing Movement: State-by-State LGBT Aging Policy and Recommendations provides a state-by-state analysis of anti-discrimination laws both related to LGBT people and to aging.
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December 01, 2009Summary of the preliminary findings of the National Transgender Discrimination Survey, focusing on employment and economic insecurity.
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November 23, 2009Outing Age 2010: Public Policy Issues Affecting Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) EldersOuting Age 2010: Public Policy Issues Affecting Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) Elders is an update to the groundbreaking Outing Age report issued in 2000.
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June 30, 2009This United States map indicates which states have prohibited same-sex relationships by statute and/or constitutional amendment.
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June 05, 2009The Task Force's report, A Time to Build Up: Analysis of the No on Proposition 8 Campaign and Its Implications for Future Pro-LGBTQQIA Religious Organizing, examines last fall's Proposition 8 battle in California, highlighting religious-secular partnerships relevant to marriage equality.
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January 06, 2009An in-depth analysis of the Proposition 8 vote, which shows that party affiliation, political ideology, frequency of attending worship services and age were the driving forces behind the measure’s passage on Nov. 4.
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August 01, 2008A fact sheet that shows in which areas (e.g., employment, education, public accommodations) discrimination is prohibited and whether there is a private right to action. It also shows the states and localities that have enacted more limited discrimination protections that apply to public employees.
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August 01, 2008A fact sheet that lists all state and local trans-inclusive legislative victories by year, including the passage date and vote, starting with 2002.
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April 27, 2008This publication, jointly produced by the Task Force and the National Center for Transgender Equality, guides LGBT organizations through all the steps needed to make organizations fully transgender-inclusive.