NLGJA: The Association of LGBTQ Journalists Stylebook has free English- and Spanish-language style books to help reporters understand issues related to the LGBTQ community. The guides are available on the group’s site and are updated as needed.
The Human Rights Campaign Foundation designed its Municipality Equality Index (MEI) to evaluate whether cities are fostering a welcoming living and working environment for LGBTQ people. The report looks at laws and policies related to hate crimes, hiring processes, health insurance options for city employees, gender affirming care, and social services for people living with HIV or AIDS.
Creating Equal Access to Quality Health Care for Transgender Patients: Transgender-Affirming Hospital Policies
Published in 2016, this guide was created to encourage hospital administrators, doctors and other staff to create a more welcoming environment for transgender patients by updating the language on the patient bill of rights, offering access to hormone therapy, and adopting protocols to treat transgender patients, among other things. The publication was created by the Human Rights Campaign Foundation, Lambda Legal, and the LGBTQ Rights Committee of the New York City Bar Association. The law firms Hogan Lovells and Proskauer provided pro bono services for the project.
Healthy People 2020: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Health
The U.S. government’s Healthy People 2020 (HP2020) project includes a new section on lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender health. The project includes an overview of LGBT health issues and statistics as well as links to other resources and related U.S. government initiatives. It also provides an update of HP2020’s goal to collect health data on LGBT populations.