Amicus Brief Asks Court to Affirm Lower Court Ruling Prohibiting Discrimination Against Transgender Employees Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights and the Transgender Law Center filed an amicus brief with the United States Supreme Court highlighting the stories of over 30 transgender people who have experienced discrimination in the workplace for being transgender. In the […]
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Transgender Law Center (TLC) and the Law Office of R. Andrew Free filed a lawsuit against Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), and DHS’s Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties on Friday demanding the release of any and all documents about Roxsana Hernandez while in ICE and Customs and […]
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Diversidad Sin Fronteras has reported that Johana Medina, a transgender woman from El Salvador, has died in ICE custody in a hospital in El Paso, Texas. Kris Hayashi, executive director of Transgender Law Center, the largest national trans-led organization advocating for a world in which all people are free to define themselves and their futures, issued the following […]
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(Washington, D.C.) – Today the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued a final rule in effect allowing medical providers’ personal beliefs to dictate patient care. Kris Hayashi, executive director of Transgender Law Center, the largest national trans-led organization advocating for a world in which all people are free to define themselves and their […]
View Article(Washington, D.C.) – Today the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to consider three cases that will determine employment protections for LGBTQ people. Among the cases is R.G. & G.R. Harris Funeral Homes v. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), which centers on the fact that Aimee Stephens was fired from her job at a funeral home simply because she is transgender. The […]
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Incomplete NM OMI autopsy report ignores troubling details regarding Roxsana’s care while in custody
View Article(Washington, D.C.) – Last night, a memo from the Department of Defense leaked outlining a plan to implement the military’s employment ban on transgender people starting April 12th. If implemented, the order could potentially be the largest layoff of transgender people in history. The order effectively bars all but a few current transgender service members […]
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(Albuquerque, NM) – Transgender Law Center celebrated this morning that Christina Lopez, a transgender woman from Peru and a survivor of human trafficking, has secured a special visa and will be released from immigration detention later today. She was first detained by immigration officials in 2014, and has spent the bulk of her years since […]
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Independent Autopsy Report Reveals Roxsana Hernandez’s Death Largely Preventable Video from press conference embedded on right San Diego – Today Transgender Law Center (TLC) and the Law Office of Andrew R. Free announced that they have filed a Notice of Wrongful Death Tort Claim in New Mexico, the first step in holding all parties responsible […]
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(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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