by K Richardson | May 9, 2022 | California, Featured, Legal, Policy, Policy Desk, Press Releases, Prisons and Policing
Today, Lambda Legal, the Transgender Law Center (TLC), and the American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Southern California (ACLU SoCal) filed a motion to intervene in a lawsuit filed by anti-transgender activists against the California Department of Corrections...
by Sue Yacka-Bible | May 11, 2021 | Featured, Immigration, Legal, Press Releases, Prisons and Policing
ICE, CBP, and DHS employees failed Roxsana at every step. Today Transgender Law Center (TLC), Grant & Eisenhofer Law, and the Law Office of Daniel Yohalem announced that they have requested to file an amended complaint alleging wrongful death, negligence and...
by admin | Sep 18, 2018 | Cases, Featured, Legal, Press Releases, Prisons and Policing
(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...
by admin | Oct 16, 2017 | California, Featured, Identification, Policy Desk, Press Releases, Prisons and Policing, TLC Victory
(Sacramento, CA) – Last night, for the first time in California history, legislation written by currently and formerly incarcerated transgender people was signed into law. Senate Bill 310 (the Name and Dignity Act), authored by Senator Toni Atkins of San Diego and...
by admin | May 17, 2017 | Press Releases, Prisons and Policing
Transgender Law Center (TLC) executive director Kris Hayashi issued the following statement about the release of Chelsea Manning from prison today: “We congratulate Chelsea Manning on her release from prison today and wish her well in her new life. Her inhumane...
by Marrion Johnson | May 9, 2017 | Cases, Featured, Prisons and Policing
Late last month, a court sided with Transgender Law Center, co-counsel Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP, and trailblazing TLC client and advocate Shiloh Quine, ruling that transgender people should be able to access gendered items that are available to others in...
