Centering Trans Voices at International AIDS Conference
This week, Positively Trans has brought a delegation to the International AIDS conference, a gathering of more than 15,000 researchers, activists and policymakers from more than 160 countries gathered in Amsterdam. Programs Director Cecilia C. Chung wants to push trans folks, specifically trans women of color, to the center of the international community’s HIV/AIDS discussion. “We […]
View ArticleTLC urges Senate to reject Trump’s SCOTUS nomination
This evening, Trump announced Judge Brett Kavanaugh as his pick to replace Justice Anthony Kennedy on the Supreme Court of 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: “Trump’s pick for the Supreme Court is a divisive, […]
View ArticleSupreme Court decision on Muslim ban echoes cruelest chapters of our history as a country
In response to the Supreme Court’s decision on the Muslim ban and several decisions attacking voting rights and reproductive care, Transgender Law Center executive director Kris Hayashi issued the following statement: “Today, the Supreme Court capped off a shameful string of decisions targeting the most vulnerable in our communities by upholding President Trump’s cruel and […]
View ArticleTLC statement on Sessions asylum decision
On Monday, Attorney General Jeff Sessions continued a disturbing trend of abusing Department of Justice authority to attempt to rewrite American immigration law. He took over a case from the Board of Immigration Appeals and issued his own decision, declaring survivors of domestic violence to be ineligible for asylum in the United States. By referring […]
View ArticleTransgender Law Center Decries Supreme Court Ruling in Masterpiece Case
(Oakland, CA) – Today, the Supreme Court of the United States failed to protect a gay couple from unfair treatment. While the 7-2 decision applies only to this particular case, we are troubled by the threat it poses to advances made in civil and human rights and frustrated that the Court did not unequivocally denounce discrimination. However, the ruling is clear that state […]
View ArticleThank You For Being #ACAPositive With Us!
At the beginning of May, TLC’s Positively Trans project launched the #ACApositive campaign, a social media awareness campaign aiming to shift conversations about health care towards a focus on the life or death stakes for the trans community and to demand that the voices of trans people living with HIV be heard. “[Positively Trans] launched this campaign, […]
View ArticleTrans Immigrant Petitions U.S. Supreme Court for Case against Discriminatory Indiana Law to Be Heard
Transgender man seeks right to sue over law prohibiting non-citizens from obtaining a change of legal name (Indianapolis, IN) — A transgender man who is challenging an Indiana state law that bars immigrants from obtaining a change of legal name is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn a federal trial court’s decision to dismiss […]
View ArticleLa Muerte de Una Mujer Transgenero en ICE Es Una Llamada Para Tomar Ación
El Centro Legal Transgénero (TLC), Familia: Trans Queer Liberation Movement y la Organización de Trans Latinas en Texas (OLTT) están de luto por la muerte de otra mujer transgénero que murió bajo custodia de ICE en la cárcel correccional Cibola. La Sra. Hernández, una mujer transgénero de Honduras, tenía solo 33 años cuando murió mientras […]
View ArticleDeath of trans woman in ICE detention highlights need for action
En Español: https://transgenderlawcenter.org/archives/14288 Transgender Law Center (TLC), Familia: Trans Queer Liberation Movement (Familia:TQLM) and Organización Latina de Trans en Texas (OLTT) mourn the death of a transgender asylum seeker who died while in ICE custody. Roxsana Hernández, a transgender woman from Honduras, was only 33 years-old when she died while incarcerated in immigration detention. Although she […]
View ArticleFederal Court in Virginia Rules School Discriminated Against Transgender Student
Yesterday, U.S. District Court of the Eastern District of Virginia denied the school board’s motion to dismiss in the Gavin Grimm case, joining the overwhelming majority of courts that have conclusively decided that both Title IX and the Constitution require that schools not discriminate against transgender students. This case was brought by the ACLU on behalf […]
View ArticleTLC Condemns Trump Bureau of Prisons Move Exposing Trans People to Violence
Late Friday, BuzzFeed reported that the Trump administration erased federal Bureau of Prisons rules intended to address the health and safety of incarcerated transgender people. These rules, grounded firmly in the Prison Rape Elimination Act signed by George W. Bush, were an attempt to reduce the violence, harassment, abuse and sexual assault that transgender and […]
View ArticleJudge rejects San Francisco’s claim that it’s above nondiscrimination law
Today, a judge ruled that a lawsuit on behalf of TLC client Tanesh Nutall could move forward, rejecting the city of San Francisco’s argument that the city does not have to follow nondiscrimination laws protecting transgender people. In 2016, a city employee harassed Tanesh and blocked her from using a women’s bathroom in a government […]
View ArticleWATCH: TLC staff meet with trans women in makeshift refugee camps at border as caravan seeks asylum
A caravan of almost 200 Central American migrants, many of them trans women, has made its way to Tijuana, MX fleeing violence and transphobia in their countries of origin. Those who seek US asylum are being denied processing at the border, and most have not yet been let in by the US. These brave individuals […]
View ArticleIf Silence=Death, Where is the HIV Community’s Voice Resisting the War Against Immigrants in the United States?
Transgender Law Center signed on to the following statement along with many other organizations listed below. This is a call to marshal our full resources, voice, and political power in support of immigrants targeted by hateful policies and dangerous, dehumanizing rhetoric. Borders are imaginary political lines drawn to consolidate power and resources. They divide and separate communities […]
View ArticleAre you #ACApositive?
By Cecilia Chung, Senior Director of Strategic Projects You might have seen news since last week that, once again, the Trump administration is attacking health care – this time, specifically trying to undermine protections for transgender people. What you probably haven’t seen? The stories of people like me, transgender people of color living with HIV, […]
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