Nearly a year after Roxsana’s death, ICE still shirks responsibility for her care
Incomplete NM OMI autopsy report ignores troubling details regarding Roxsana’s care while in custody
View ArticleTLC Urges Supporters to Take Action Against Tennessee Legislature’s Slate of Hate
(Nashville, Tenn.) – This week, the Tennessee legislature considered a bill, SB 1297/HB 1151, that would expand the state’s public indecency law to include bathrooms, locker rooms, and dressing rooms. While the bill was amended to strike the explicitly anti-trans language, it would still lead to further harassment of transgender and gender nonconforming people in bathrooms […]
View ArticleLeaked DOD Memo Outlines Plan to Ban Employment of Transgender Service Members
(Washington, D.C.) – Last night, a memo from the Department of Defense leaked outlining a plan to implement the military’s employment ban on transgender people starting April 12th. If implemented, the order could potentially be the largest layoff of transgender people in history. The order effectively bars all but a few current transgender service members […]
View ArticleTrump Upends Democratic Process By Declaring Fake National Emergency to Build Border Wall
Today President Trump announced that he is declaring a national emergency in order to secure up to eight billion dollars to build his border wall. The border wall had been resoundingly declared dead on arrival during budget negotiations, and his announcement comes in the wake of a budget deal with a border compromise designed to […]
View ArticleTLC wins #FreeChristina case after 5 year battle, sets precedent for trans survivors of human trafficking
(Albuquerque, NM) – Transgender Law Center celebrated this morning that Christina Lopez, a transgender woman from Peru and a survivor of human trafficking, has secured a special visa and will be released from immigration detention later today. She was first detained by immigration officials in 2014, and has spent the bulk of her years since […]
View ArticleCelebrating Isa Noyola as She Shifts Into New Movement Role
Transgender Law Center (TLC) and Mijente celebrate the leadership of Isa Noyola as she announces today her transition from her role as Deputy Director at TLC to a new role as Deputy Director at the national digital and grassroots hub for Latinx and Chicanx organizing, Mijente and Mijente Support Committee. “Isa is a phenomenal leader, […]
View ArticleTrump Administration Deflects Scrutiny By Cruelly Turning Back Asylum Seekers
In response to the Trump administration’s announcement that they will be forcing people seeking asylum to wait in Mexico throughout their proceedings, deputy director Isa Noyola 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 […]
View ArticleJustice 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 […]
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