(Denver, Colorado) – Last Friday, Transgender Law Center and co-counsel from the law firm of King & Greisen LLP filed an amended complaint on behalf of Lindsay Saunders-Velez, a 20-year-old Black transgender woman incarcerated by the Colorado Department of Corrections (CDOC). The amended complaint adds a retaliation claim under 42 U.S.C. § 1985 and alleges […]
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Today, Transgender Law Center, Black LGBTQ+ Migrant Project – BLMP, and Familia: Trans Queer Liberation Movement are hosting a rally and march that will center how Black and brown trans and queer people are uniquely impacted by immigration detention and demand an end to detention for all vulnerable people. In particular, we are uplifting our […]
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This evening, Trump announced Judge Brett Kavanaugh as his pick to replace Justice Anthony Kennedy on the Supreme Court of the United States. Transgender Law Center (TLC), the largest national trans-led organization advocating self-determination for all people, issued the following response from deputy director Isa Noyola: “Trump’s pick for the Supreme Court is a divisive, […]
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Last Friday, after 536 days behind bars, TLC client Marianna had her day in Court – and won. Marianna fought through tears and testified brilliantly during her three-hour hearing at Cibola Detention Center in Milan, NM, which ended with a grant of asylum by Immigration Judge O’Hare. The immigration judge found that Marianna had a well-founded fear of future persecution on […]
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Today, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) under the Trump-Pence administration announced a new rule to allow medical providers to illegally discriminate against patients based on who they are, as long as the providers cite religion. Transgender Law Center, the largest national trans-led organization advocating self-determination for all people, issued the following statement […]
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(Kenosha, WI) – Ash Whitaker, the transgender student plaintiff in Whitaker v. Kenosha Unified School District, and his former school district, Kenosha Unified School District (“KUSD”) in Kenosha, Wisconsin, reached a settlement in Ash’s discrimination lawsuit against KUSD, pending court approval. Ash graduated high school in June 2017, just days after the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals […]
View ArticleOur team at TLC does what it takes to keep transgender and gender nonconforming people alive, thriving, and fighting for liberation. We know it can be absolutely daunting (and overwhelming) to see the anti-trans attacks flooding our timelines. Some might say you need a degree or a bunch of money to really make an impact. […]
View Article(New York, NY) – Today, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo granted a rare pardon to Lorena Borjas, a transgender Latina woman and well-known advocate who has helped countless transgender women like herself survive trafficking and other abusive situations. Lorena was at high risk of deportation due to old convictions from when she herself was being […]
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Statement from Cecilia Chung, Senior Director of Strategic Projects: Late last Friday, a terrifying report leaked that the Trump-Pence administration has given the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) a list of seven words the agency is now banned from using in budget proposals: “diversity,” “vulnerable,” “fetus,” “entitlement,” “science-based,” “evidence-based,” and yes, “transgender.” Forbidding […]
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This morning, Transgender Law Center deputy director Isa Noyola spoke at a rally about why business must be #OpenToAll as the Supreme Court heard arguments in the ACLU’s Masterpiece case. As TLC laid out in our amicus brief for the case, a ruling allowing discrimination could have devastating consequences for transgender and gender nonconforming people of color […]
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