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  • NLGJA: The Association of LGBTQ Journalists Stylebook helps reporters understand issues related to the LGBTQ community. The guide is available on the group’s site and is updated as needed.
  • The Trans Journalists Association’s Stylebook and Coverage Guide is a tool reporters, editors and other journalists can use to improve news coverage of trans people and the stories that affect them.
  • The Trans News Initiative tracks and analyzes the news coverage of trans communities in context of the political moment. The tracker provides data for journalists, media organizations, and researchers committed to covering issues that impact trans people fairly and accurately.
  • 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.

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