by Sue Yacka-Bible | Jul 23, 2020 | Featured, Identification, Immigration, Press Releases, TLC Victory
A Court of Appeals of Indiana has taken the final step in the process and certified a decision that a state name-change law does not require a petitioner to be a U.S. citizen to change their name. The ruling, issued last week, is now the guiding law in the state of...
by admin | Dec 27, 2017 | Cases, Featured, Immigration, Legal, Press Releases, TLC Victory
(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...
by admin | Oct 18, 2017 | Cases, Detention Project, Featured, Immigration, Legal, Press Releases, TLC Victory
(Virginia) – Late last week, Transgender Law Center (TLC), the largest national trans-led organization advocating self-determination for all people, won an appeal of the U.S. government’s order of removal for Marianna, a transgender woman who emigrated from Mexico...
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 | Oct 16, 2017 | California, Featured, Identification, Policy Desk, Press Releases, TLC Victory
(Sacramento, CA) – Last night, Governor Brown signed into law SB 179, the Gender Recognition Act, which makes it easier for transgender, intersex, and nonbinary people to obtain state-issued identity documents that reflect their gender. Authored by Senators Toni...
by admin | May 30, 2017 | Cases, Featured, Press Releases, TLC Victory, Whitaker, Youth
(Chicago, May 30, 2017) Today, the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals issued a groundbreaking ruling in favor of Ash Whitaker, the transgender student plaintiff in Whitaker v. Kenosha Unified School District. In a unanimous decision authored by Judge Ann Claire...
