by K Richardson | Apr 11, 2022 | Featured, Health, Legal, Policy, Policy Desk, Press Releases, Youth
APRIL 11, 2022 MONTGOMERY, Ala. – Two Alabama families filed a lawsuit in federal court today challenging a recently passed law that criminalizes medical professionals who provide care to transgender adolescents with up to 10 years in prison. The families say being...
by K Richardson | Apr 7, 2022 | Featured, Health, Policy, Policy Desk, Press Releases, Youth
MONTGOMERY, Ala. – The American Civil Liberties Union, the ACLU of Alabama, Lambda Legal, Transgender Law Center, and Cooley LLP announced today plans to file a legal challenge to proposed legislation in Alabama that would criminalize medical professionals who provide...
by admin | Jan 17, 2018 | Featured, Press Releases, TRUTH, Youth
TRUTH launches ourtranstruth.org & opens applications (Oakland, CA) – Today, TRUTH, a youth-led program housed at Transgender Law Center and GSA Network, launched a new website to build trans youth power through online organizing and storytelling. The website...
by admin | Jan 9, 2018 | Cases, Featured, Legal, Press Releases, Whitaker, Youth
(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...
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...
by admin | Mar 29, 2017 | Cases, Featured, Legal, Whitaker, Youth
(Chicago, March 29, 2017) Today the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals heard oral arguments in the case Whitaker v. Kenosha Unified School District, involving a transgender Wisconsin student whose school had denied him access to the boy’s room. The school district is...
