PRESS RELEASE
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
September 30, 2025
Contact: Eli Duffy
Director of Communications & Strategic Partnerships
eduffy@glma.org
GLMA Executive Director, Alex Sheldon, Named to TIME’s Annual TIME100 Next List of the 100 Leaders Shaping the Future
Washington, DC – Today, TIME named GLMA Executive Director, Alex Sheldon, to the 2025 TIME100 Next list.
An expansion of the TIME100 list of the most influential people in the world, TIME100 Next highlights 100 emerging leaders who are shaping the future of business, entertainment, sports, politics, health, science and activism, and more.
Alex was endorsed by PFLAG National CEO Brian Bond, who shared:
“I first met Alex Sheldon in an Austin courtroom. They had just become executive director of GLMA: Health Professionals Advancing LGBTQ+ Equality, and here we were, voices of resistance against Texas’ cruel effort to ban transgender health care for youth by threatening health care providers’ licenses. Alex is the kind of leader who, in the face of unimaginable vitriol, brings the facts. They rise to the occasion time and again, leading GLMA to support providers dedicated to improving health for LGBTQ+ people, from challenging grant terminations that gutted their research to being our co-plaintiff in PFLAG v. Trump to fight the Executive Order banning trans health care for youth. Trans and nonbinary people deserve the freedom to thrive. Yet attacks on trans health care threaten that truth and could affect all parents’ decisionmaking rights—and all providers’ ability to offer best-practice medical care. It’s why we need folks like Alex, who fight for all of us.”
GLMA celebrates this recognition as a reflection of the strength and dedication of our members, partners, and allies who work every day to advance health equity for LGBTQ+ communities. We especially thank our partners at PFLAG National for their endorsement and for standing with us in the fight to protect access to medical care for the trans and non-binary community.
The full list and related tributes appear in the October 13, 2025, issue, available on newsstands on Friday, October 3, and now at time.com/next.
About GLMA: Health Professionals Advancing LGBTQ+ Equality
GLMA is a national organization committed to ensuring health equity for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ+) communities and equality for LGBTQ+ health professionals in their work and learning environments. To achieve this mission, GLMA utilizes the scientific expertise of its diverse multidisciplinary membership to inform and drive advocacy, education, and research. www.glma.org