Justice for Roxsana: Announcing Legal Action To Hold Government Accountable for Transgender Asylum-Seeker’s Death
Independent Autopsy Report Reveals Roxsana Hernandez’s Death Largely Preventable Video from press conference embedded on right San Diego – Today Transgender Law Center (TLC) and the Law Office of Andrew R. Free announced that they have filed a Notice of Wrongful Death Tort Claim in New Mexico, the first step in holding all parties responsible […]
View ArticleTLC concerned by reports of trans activist Danni Askini’s treatment by U.S. State Department
Transgender Law Center is concerned by reports that Danni Askini, a transgender woman, U.S. citizen, and prominent community advocate from Washington State, has been denied a passport renewal by the U.S. State Department. Danni is currently in Sweden and if forced to return to the United States, Danni worries that the U.S. would place her […]
View ArticleTLC Statement on Trump Asylum Proclamation: “Immoral and Illegal”
In response to the Trump administration’s latest attack on migrants, executive director Kris Hayashi of Transgender Law Center (TLC), the largest national trans-led organization advocating for a world in which all people are free to define themselves and their futures, issued the following statement: Yesterday, President Trump in effect ordered violence and a possible death […]
View ArticleMA makes history as first state to uphold trans protections at ballot box
Yesterday, the people of Massachusetts voted overwhelmingly to uphold rights for transgender people, making history as the first state to approve non-discrimination protections for trans people by public vote. “Last night’s historic victory in Massachusetts is a bright point in this incredibly dark and painful time for our communities, demonstrating the power of a campaign […]
View ArticleStill Here, Still Suing
In just one week, our country experienced the hate-motivated massacres of Jewish elders in a synagogue and Black elders in a grocery store, attempted bombings of multiple critics of Trump, and the news that this administration is working to erase our very existence as trans, nonbinary, and intersex people. Last week was a devastating […]
View ArticleBlack LGBTQ+ Migrant Project Responds to Trump’s Planned Attack on Birthright Citizenship
Join BLMP for a webinar discussing these attacks at 3pm PT/5pm CT/6pm ET on Tuesday, October 30: http://bit.ly/BLMPTRANS (Washington, D.C.) In an interview for Axios on HBO, President Donald Trump announced his plans to end birthright citizenship through an executive order. Progressive legal organizations swiftly responded to the news by promising to challenge these xenophobic attacks […]
View ArticleWATCH: the Laverne Cox speech you need this week
With news leaking Sunday of a Trump administration memo that would seek to erase transgender, intersex, and non-binary people, it’s been a devastating week for many in our community. But last Thursday, at Transgender Law Center’s SPARK! gala, our Vanguard Awardee and star actress Laverne Cox gave a speech that inspired and rallied us — […]
View ArticleTransgender Law Center Responds to Horrific Leaked Draft Memo by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Denying Humanity of Transgender and Gender Nonconforming Community
On Sunday, The New York Times reported on a memo drafted by the Trump administration that could lead to regulatory attempts to define gender as “a biological, immutable condition determined by genitalia at birth.” NYT outlined how the memo, drafted by HHS, will pave the way for a violent attack on the rights of transgender and gender nonconforming communities in accessing comprehensive healthcare […]
View ArticleKavanaugh Confirmation Would “Destroy Any Credibility of the Supreme Court”
Kris Hayashi, executive director of Transgender Law Center, the largest national trans-led organization advocating self-determination for all people, issued the following statement concerning the Senate Judiciary Committee’s vote to advance Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh: “In the wake of clear and harrowing evidence that Brett Kavanaugh sexually assaulted multiple women, the Senate’s decision to force […]
View ArticleBlack LGBTQ+ Migrant Project (BLMP) Celebrates Release of Nigerian Asylum-Seeker Udoka Nweke from Adelanto Detention Facility
(Los Angeles) BLMP, a project of Transgender Law Center, celebrated the release of Udoka Nweke, a 29 year-old gay Nigerian migrant, from Adelanto Detention Facility last Friday. Nweke arrived in the United States in December 2016. He presented himself to U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) at San Ysidro Port of Entry, where he asked […]
View ArticleTrump Administration’s Proposed Rule is “Racism Dressed Up in Threadbare Legalese”
(Washington, D.C.) – Last Saturday, the Trump Administration proposed a new rule that, if implemented, would have devastating effects on some of the most vulnerable people in the United States. Transgender Law Center (TLC), the largest national trans-led organization advocating self-determination for all people, issued the following response from deputy director Isa Noyola: “This administration […]
View ArticleTLC announces Laverne Cox as SPARK! 2018 Honoree
(San Francisco, CA) – Transgender Law Center (TLC), the largest national trans-led organization advocating self-determination for all people, is thrilled to announce that this year’s Claire Skiffington Vanguard Awardee for SPARK! 2018 will be star actress Laverne Cox. “Laverne has not only broken barriers and charted new paths in Hollywood, but she has remained a […]
View ArticleTransgender Law Center Responds to Murder of Nikki Janelle Enriquez: “We refuse to become numb to this rapid accumulation of injustices
(Laredo, Texas) – This last weekend, Texas law enforcement captured Juan David Ortiz, a Border Patrol agent who confessed to murdering several women. Transgender Law Center (TLC), the largest national trans-led organization advocating self-determination for all people, issued the following response from deputy director Isa Noyola: “We are horrified by the news that a Border […]
View ArticleColorado Department of Corrections engages in unlawful harassment and intimidation targeting a young Black trans woman
(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 Corrections (CDOC). The amended complaint adds a retaliation claim under 42 U.S.C. § 1985 and alleges […]
View Article#Time4BlackTransWomen: National Moment of Silence and Action
Today we learned that Londonn Moore Kinard, a 20-year-old Black trans woman, was murdered earlier this week in North Port, Florida. We mourn Londonn’s murder as we continue to mourn and process the recent deaths of Dejanay Stanton in Illinois, Vontashia Bell in Louisiana, and Shantee Tucker in Pennsylvania – all young Black trans women […]
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