Policy Desk: What’s happening in Texas?
This post, by TLC Policy Coordinator Corinne Green, is part of our Policy Desk series. Corinne and Shelby Chestnut, TLC’s National Organizing and Policy Strategist, are on the ground this week in Austin as the Texas legislature kicks off its special session. By the time its regular session concluded on May 29th, Texas had worked through […]
View ArticleThanks, California! New employment regulations support trans workers
Today, following months of input and advocacy from Transgender law Center, the CA Fair Employment and Housing Council (FEHC) has put new regulations into effect. The regulations clarify the law to reflect the most common forms of discrimination transgender and gender nonconforming people face at work, especially usage of sex-segregated facilities, name and pronoun use […]
View ArticlePassing the Torch
Message from TLC Legal Director Ilona Turner: The past few years have been nothing short of revolutionary for the legal rights of transgender, gender nonconforming, and nonbinary people. As legal director at Transgender Law Center over the past six years, I’ve had the unbelievable privilege to be a part of too many of those victories to count. This […]
View ArticleACA Watch: Not the Time to Back Down
This week, we had a brief moment of relief — the Senate backed off from holding a vote before the July 4th recess on their devastating legislation that would cost 22 million people their health insurance. But the fight is far from over. They still plan to bring forward the legislation next month, and they […]
View ArticleMeet the people behind our 2017 Plan of Resistance
In January, Transgender Law Center announced our 2017 Plan of Resistance — a radical restructuring to harness community power to meet community needs under the new administration. We’ve been busy these past few months, and we’re excited to introduce the new members of our team who are putting that plan into action. Legal: After the […]
View ArticleACA Watch: Don’t Let Them Take our Healthcare
A bill that would be a death sentence for many in our community is moving forward in the Senate — and we have only a few days left to stop it. The legislation to repeal the Affordable Care Act would harm millions of people by making it possible for individual states to allow insurance companies to deny […]
View Article13 Trans People of Color Murdered. We Need to Report Violence.
Last week, we learned of the murder of Josie Berrios. She was a proud trans woman of color and, at just 28 years old, she became the 13th transgender person of color murdered this year. We also learned that the police officer who killed Philando Castile, a Black man whose murder during a traffic stop […]
View ArticleJewel Box Revue: Catch TLC@SONG on the road!
This summer, TLC@SONG will be finding our kindred across the South. We’ll kickoff in the Peach state, connect in the Delta, and dip down to the Panhandle! With our bodies and communities at stake we have nothing to lose by harboring one another. What will it take to end the detainment of immigrant transwomen? What […]
View ArticleProtecting Trans Rights, the 7th Circuit and Beyond: a Discussion for Lawyers
On Wednesday, June 7th, at 12:00pm PST/3:00pm EST, the National LGBT Bar Association and Transgender Law Center will host a call-in addressing the 7th Circuit’s recent groundbreaking ruling affirming the preliminary injunction granted in Whitaker v. Kenosha Unified School District. Ash Whitaker, a transgender boy from Wisconsin, brought the lawsuit last year after his high school […]
View ArticleGroundbreaking 7th Circuit Ruling in Favor of Ash Whitaker, Transgender Student Seeking Access to Correct Bathroom
(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 Williams, the court upheld the preliminary injunction, issued by a federal district court in September […]
View ArticleCatching Up with Positively Trans
Positively Trans (T+), a project of Transgender Law Center, has been quite busy the last several months! As one of the partners on the Building Leaders of Color Living with HIV (BLOC) program, we held the first national leadership training for transgender women of color living with HIV. Twelve women came from around the country […]
View ArticleWith Spike in Hate Crimes, TLC Urges Survivors to Report to Communities Against Hate
Transgender Law Center (TLC) urges survivors of hate crimes to report incidents to Communities Against Hate, a collaborative project to build a national database on hate crimes, and connect survivors to resources and services. Reports can be made through the website or through a resource hotline: 1-844-NO-HATE (1-844-966-4283) “The news this weekend from New York […]
View ArticleTLC wins victory for trans people in prison
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 prison. The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR), citing escape concerns among others, […]
View ArticleExecutive Order and Health Care Bill are Attacks on Transgender People
From TLC executive director Kris Hayashi: Last week, as the House of Representatives passed President Trump’s dangerous bill undermining the Affordable Care Act, the President signed a so-called “religious liberty” Executive Order that attempts to chip away at the Constitution’s separation of church and state and encourages government agencies to discriminate. Since taking office, this […]
View ArticleFrom TLC’s Policy Desk: Trump’s Attacks on TGNC Community
Return to a Preexisting Condition – #Trumpcare wants to return you to the “good old days.” The U.S. House of Representatives narrowly passed “Trumpcare” yesterday – legislation that seeks to repeal the Affordable Care Act. The bill would shift federal funding from our most vulnerable populations and provide huge tax cuts for the rich. This harmful legislation […]
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