Dear loved community and allies,

It is with a heavy heart that we announce the Transgender Pool Party and Potluck is being canceled for 2021.

The United States Supreme Court affirmed the dignity and rights of transgender youth Monday.

First Unitarian Church of Salt Lake City hosted the 2021 Interfaith Pride Service, and TEA of Utah's Executive Director Candice Metzler was among those who spoke. 

Meet our Executive Director Candice Metzler and learn how she went from homelessness to graduation once she found support from her community. 

Transgender Education Advocates of Utah released the following statement after Utah Rep. Kira Birkeland spoke about her intent to bring back legislation that would limit or ban transgender girls' participation in school sports. 

Transgender Education Advocates of Utah will be holding our annual Employment Empowerment Conference on October 21, and we hope you will save the date! 

Transgender Utahns breathe a sigh of relief today after the Utah Supreme Court affirmed our right to update our legal gender markers. Many of your neighbors have been denied this right or languished in legal limbo for too long. Transgender Education Advocates of Utah joins our community in celebrating our right to be seen for who we are under the law.

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah -- The Senate Health and Human Services Committee voted to adjourn without taking action Wednesday night on House Bill 302, which would exclude transgender girls from competing in youth sports in Utah.

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah -- Utah lawmakers advanced state-sponsored discrimination Wednesday when House Bill 302 passed the Utah House on a 50-23 vote.

Transgender youth deserve dignity and respect just like their cis peers, but so often legislation that targets them for discrimination is discussed in 30 second sound-bites. In the essay and news segment below, Candice Metzler, Executive Director for TEA of Utah, goes beyond the fear and the political maneuvering to discuss the core of what fairness means for our youth.