Legal
Resources
Legal Support & Legislative Advocacy
Experts and advocates working to protect your rights and challenge discrimination
The ACLU works to ensure that lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer people can live openly without discrimination and enjoy equal rights, personal autonomy, and freedom of expression and association.
The Human Rights Campaign strives to end discrimination against LGBTQ+ people and realize a world that achieves fundamental fairness and equality for all.
For five decades and counting, Lambda Legal has proudly served as attorneys for the LGBTQ+ community and people living with HIV.
Transgender Law Center is the largest national trans-led organization advocating for a world in which all people are free to define themselves and their futures.
Transgender and Gender Expansive Support
Guidance and practical tools created specifically for trans and gender-diverse communities
A team of hard-working staff members supported by a nationwide community of transgender people, allies, and advocates with an extensive record of winning life-saving change for transgender people.
Information on how to change name and gender in Ohio provided by the Advocates for Trans Equality.
Find instructions for changing your name and gender marker on identity documents and other records for each Ohio county. Provided by Equitas Health.
Transgender Law Center is the largest national trans-led organization advocating for a world in which all people are free to define themselves and their futures.
Ohio LGBTQIA+ Advocacy
Local leadership and resources advancing equality across Ohio communities
Equality Ohio was founded in 2005 by a group of 65 dedicated LGBT activists and allies from all corners of Ohio. Equality Ohio’s work is broad and focuses on multiple aspects of LGBTQ equality in Ohio.
Find instructions for changing your name and gender marker on identity documents and other records for each Ohio county. Provided by Equitas Health.
Workplace Inclusion & Professional Equity
Building workplaces where LGBTQ+ people can thrive with authenticity and belonging
Out & Equal is the premier nonprofit organization working exclusively on LGBTQ+ workplace equity, inclusion, and belonging.
International LGBTQIA+ Advocacy
Global efforts to protect LGBTQ+ people and strengthen movements for equality worldwide
Since 1961, Amnesty International USA has fought to protect human rights as the world’s largest grassroots human rights organization.
Outright International is dedicated to working with partners around the globe to strengthen the capacity of the LGBTIQ human rights movement, document and amplify human rights violations against LGBTIQ people, and advocate for inclusion and equality.