by admin | Aug 16, 2016 | Detention Project, Featured, Legal, Policy, Prisons and Policing, Uncategorized
On June 1, 2016, after months of abusive treatment while in custody in a San Francisco jail, Athena Cadence decided to take matters into her own hands. She declared a hunger strike, refusing to eat until the San Francisco Sheriff allowed transgender women to be housed...
by admin | Aug 15, 2016 | Uncategorized
Transgender Law Center is thrilled to welcome Ace Portis as the organization’s new Director of Development. Ace is a professional fundraiser with a deep passion for philanthropy, and most recently served as the Major Gifts Officer at the National Center for...
by admin | Aug 4, 2016 | Positively Trans, Uncategorized
By Cecilia Chung, Senior Strategist at Transgender Law Center and lead staff for Positively Trans This July marked a new chapter for trans advocacy at the International AIDS Conference held in Durban, South Africa. For the first year ever, there was a trans-specific...
by admin | Jun 23, 2016 | Featured, Movement Building, Uncategorized, Violence
This post was written by Collette Carter in coordination with the ACLU, The Audre Lorde Project, The New York City Anti-Violence Project, Mijente, Southerners On New Ground, National Lawyers Guild, Vision Change Win, BYP100, and Transgender Law Center. Transgender,...
by admin | May 25, 2016 | Featured, Policy, Press Releases, Uncategorized, Whitaker
Today, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and officials from 10 other states filed a lawsuit against the Obama Administration. The lawsuit seeks to roll back long-established legal protections for transgender students and employees. Transgender Law Center Executive...
by admin | May 25, 2016 | Featured, Uncategorized
Primer Impacto at Univision produced a great piece this week on transgender immigrant women organizing against abuses in detention centers. The segment featured Transgender Law Center Detention Project Director Flor Bermudez and Director of Programs Isa Noyola, as...
