On Monday, Attorney General Jeff Sessions continued a disturbing trend of abusing Department of Justice authority to attempt to rewrite American immigration law. He took over a case from the Board of Immigration Appeals and issued his own decision, declaring survivors of domestic violence to be ineligible for asylum in the United States. By referring […]
View Article(Oakland, CA) – Today, the Supreme Court of the United States failed to protect a gay couple from unfair treatment. While the 7-2 decision applies only to this particular case, we are troubled by the threat it poses to advances made in civil and human rights and frustrated that the Court did not unequivocally denounce discrimination. However, the ruling is clear that state […]
View ArticleAt the beginning of May, TLC’s Positively Trans project launched the #ACApositive campaign, a social media awareness campaign aiming to shift conversations about health care towards a focus on the life or death stakes for the trans community and to demand that the voices of trans people living with HIV be heard. “[Positively Trans] launched this campaign, […]
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Transgender man seeks right to sue over law prohibiting non-citizens from obtaining a change of legal name (Indianapolis, IN) — A transgender man who is challenging an Indiana state law that bars immigrants from obtaining a change of legal name is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn a federal trial court’s decision to dismiss […]
View ArticleEl Centro Legal Transgénero (TLC), Familia: Trans Queer Liberation Movement y la Organización de Trans Latinas en Texas (OLTT) están de luto por la muerte de otra mujer transgénero que murió bajo custodia de ICE en la cárcel correccional Cibola. La Sra. Hernández, una mujer transgénero de Honduras, tenía solo 33 años cuando murió mientras […]
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En Español: https://transgenderlawcenter.org/archives/14288 Transgender Law Center (TLC), Familia: Trans Queer Liberation Movement (Familia:TQLM) and Organización Latina de Trans en Texas (OLTT) mourn the death of a transgender asylum seeker who died while in ICE custody. Roxana Hernández, a transgender woman from Honduras, was only 33 years-old when she died while incarcerated in immigration detention. Although she […]
View ArticleYesterday, U.S. District Court of the Eastern District of Virginia denied the school board’s motion to dismiss in the Gavin Grimm case, joining the overwhelming majority of courts that have conclusively decided that both Title IX and the Constitution require that schools not discriminate against transgender students. This case was brought by the ACLU on behalf […]
View ArticleLate Friday, BuzzFeed reported that the Trump administration erased federal Bureau of Prisons rules intended to address the health and safety of incarcerated transgender people. These rules, grounded firmly in the Prison Rape Elimination Act signed by George W. Bush, were an attempt to reduce the violence, harassment, abuse and sexual assault that transgender and […]
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Today, a judge ruled that a lawsuit on behalf of TLC client Tanesh Nutall could move forward, rejecting the city of San Francisco’s argument that the city does not have to follow nondiscrimination laws protecting transgender people. In 2016, a city employee harassed Tanesh and blocked her from using a women’s bathroom in a government […]
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A caravan of almost 200 Central American migrants, many of them trans women, has made its way to Tijuana, MX fleeing violence and transphobia in their countries of origin. Those who seek US asylum are being denied processing at the border, and most have not yet been let in by the US. These brave individuals […]
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