ACA 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 […]
View Article“TRANSform Tech” to Explore Transgender & Gender Nonconforming People in the Tech Industry on April 13
Transgender Law Center has partnered with Lesbians Who Tech and host Salesforce to convene TRANSform Tech, a day-long summit bringing together tech industry leaders and workers with transgender and gender nonconforming (TGNC) people. TRANSform Tech invites TGNC people who are currently working in these fields, those who are interested, as well as companies and businesses […]
View ArticleTransgender Law Center Statement on Replacement of NC’s HB2
Today, North Carolina lawmakers passed a bill that claims to repeal HB2, a controversial bathroom law that has plagued transgender North Carolinians for nearly a year. Unfortunately, the bill continues to block non-discrimination ordinances from being passed by local governments until 2020 and leaves regulation of bathroom access solely in control of the Legislature. Following today’s action […]
View Article7th Circuit Court of Appeals Hears Whitaker v. Kenosha Unified School District
(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 appealing a preliminary injunction from a lower court granting the student the right […]
View ArticleTransgender Community Pushes Back as Anti-Transgender Bills Advance in State Legislatures Nationwide
More than 100 anti-transgender bills have been introduced in 29 state legislatures across the country this year, and the transgender community is mobilizing a vigorous nationwide pushback. This week, the focus is on bills advancing in Arkansas, Tennessee, and Texas. “2017 has already proved difficult for transgender and gender nonconforming people, with legislators finding us […]
View ArticleNew reports highlight inequities faced by transgender people living with HIV
Oakland, CA –Transgender Law Center released two new reports today examining the experiences and disparities faced by transgender people living with HIV – primarily transgender women of color. The reports, Some Kind of Strength and See Us as People, delve deeper into issues first covered in the initial Positively Trans report in 2016, based on […]
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