Latest Publications

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  Scholars File Amici Brief in Transgender Veterans Case

  June 2017
  

  On June 28, 2017, Williams Institute and other scholars who study the transgender population submitted an amici brief to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in Fulcher v. Secretary of Veterans Affairs. In their amici brief, the scholars present social science data and scholarly research regarding the transgender population establishing that transgender status should be considered a suspect classification for purposes of Constitutional equal-protection analysis.

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  Estimates of Marriages of Same-Sex Couples at the Two-Year Anniversary of Obergefell v. Hodges

  Adam P. Romero
  June 2017
  

  Over 150,000 same-sex couples have married since the U.S. Supreme Court extended marriage equality nationwide. In total, over 1.1 million LGBT adults are currently married to a same-sex partner.

• Unmet Public Health Needs Among Transgender People in the U.S. Include Poor General Health and Lack of Access to Health Care

  Dr. Ilan H. Meyer with Taylor N.T. Brown and Dr. Jody L. Herman, the Williams Institute; Dr. Sari L. Reisner, Harvard Medical School and Boston Children’s Hospital; Dr. Walter O. Bockting, Columbia University Medical Center, May 2017
  

  Transgender adults in the U.S. are more likely than cisgender adults to report poor health and lack of health insurance coverage. The study is the first to analyze health data from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, a nationally representative survey that includes questions to identify transgender individuals in 19 states and one U.S. territory.