Keisling, Mara: - Foreword by Mara Keisling, executive director of the National Center for Transgender Equality, the nation's leading social justice advocacy organization winning life-saving change for transgender people. According to the center's website, Keisling has led organizational and coalition efforts that have won significant advances in transgender equality, including the inclusion of gender identity in the Employment Non-Discrimination Act, the first-ever Congressional hearing on transgender issues, and countless federal administrative and state-level wins.